In this report, the Special Rapporteur provides an overview of her activities since her previous report to the Council ( A/HRC/33/42 ) as well as a thematic study on the impacts of climate change and...

Item 70(a): Rights of indigenous peoples New York 12 October 2017 Mr. Chair, Distinguished delegates, indigenous peoples’ representatives Ladies and gentlemen, In the thematic report which I am...

New York, 12 October 2017 Mr. Chair, Distinguished delegates, indigenous peoples’ representatives Ladies and gentlemen, In the thematic report which I am presenting today (A/72/186), I examine the...

Spanish GENEVA (6 October 2017) - UN experts* are urging Chile not to prosecute Mapuche indigenous peoples under the country’s anti-terrorism legislation. The call comes ahead of a hearing in the case...

Arabic | French | Russian | Spanish International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples - Wednesday 9 August 2017 　 GENEVA / NEW YORK (7 August 2017) – The world’s indigenous peoples still face huge...

The General Assembly adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) on 13 September 2007 (resolution 61/295). The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the rights...

GENEVA (13 July 2017) – Peru must suspend negotiations for a new contract to exploit one of the country’s most productive oil areas until the rights of local indigenous peoples are protected, two...

Tenth Anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 12 July 2017 Distinguished members of the Expert Mechanism, Excellencies, Distinguished representatives of...