IWGIA Statement: UN General Assembly Fails to Bring Hope to the World's Indigenous Peoples

Publication language: English
Region publication is about: International, Internacional
Release year: 2006

Tags: Human rights

More than two decades of efforts to promote international human rights standards for the safety and well-being of Indigenous Peoples appear to have failed following the adoption of a motion by the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly on 28th November 2006 to defer the historic adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The motion, promoted by few Western countries and put forward by the Namibian delegation on behalf of the African Group of States, was put to the vote with a majority of 82 nation states in favour, 67 against and 25 abstentions.

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