UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). 23nd session
Item 4. Discussion on the six mandated areas of the Permanent Forum (economic and social development, culture, environment, education, health and human rights), with reference to the UNDRIP and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Statement by
Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) on Implementation of the UN Declaration
Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) considers that implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples can occur at different levels and in various forms, whether domestically, regionally, or internationally. At one level, Article 42 of the Declaration specifically calls on the United Nations and its bodies to promote respect for and full application of the provisions of the Declaration and follow up on its effectiveness.
With this in mind, Indigenous Peoples Rights International regularly monitors the various outputs of the ten UN Treaty Bodies and the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Where they address Indigenous Peoples’ rights, we assemble and disseminate these into a bi-annual publication called “A Compilation of UN Treaty Body Jurisprudence, Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council, and the Advice of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”. The most recent edition, Volume IX, is now available on our website.
This compliments our digest titled the ‘Xanharu’ which provides information on domestic judicial decisions that reference the Declaration. The next volume will be made available in the coming months. In general, these compilations support the view expressed by the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) and others that the Declaration is “a contextualised elaboration of general human rights principles” and that the standards affirmed therein “connect to existing State obligations under international human rights law….”
We would like to share that, we, Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI), have collaborated with a software company to convert these compilations into a searchable database. It will be operational and available later this year on our website. Data includes outputs of the Treaty Bodies from 2003 to present and can be accessed easily by using key words, by country search, by theme search and or by specific rights search. The data can also be utilized to produce specific reports and other outputs where appropriate.
