Wednesday, November 17, 2010

UN Third Committee agenda documents for 65 Session

There are a number of documents submitted to the Third Committee to accompany the 65th Session Agenda of interest to the issues of indigenous peoples. The full list is at this URL: http://www.un.org/en/ga/third/65/documentslist.shtml. Some selected ones are listed below:


♦ ITEM 65: Indigenous issues:

(a) Indigenous issues

* A/65/163 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Note by the Secretary-General on the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations

* A/65/264 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Secretary-General transmitting the interim report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people

(b) Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People

* A/65/166 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people
♦ ITEM 66: Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance:

(a) Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

* A/65/292 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Secretary-General on the status of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination

* A/65/312 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Secretary-General on the financial situation of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

* A/64/18 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on its seventy-fourth and seventy-fifth sessions

* A/65/18(Supp) [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on its seventy-sixth and seventy-seven sessions

* A/65/323 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance


(b) Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action

* A/65/377 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Secretary-General on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

* A/65/295 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the interim report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance


♦ ITEM 67: Right of peoples to self-determination

* A/65/286 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Secretary-General on the universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determination

* A/65/325 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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