RES/6/16 Informal meeting to discuss the most appropriate mechanisms to continue the work of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations
Document Type: Final Resolution
Date: 2007 Sep
Session: 6th Regular Session (2007 Sep)
Agenda Item:
Topic: Indigenous Peoples
Human Rights Council
Resolution 6/16. Informal meeting to discuss the most appropriate mechanisms to continue the work of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling that the Human Rights Council institution-building text, annexed to
resolution 5/1 of 18 June 2007, stated that the “Council will decide at its sixth session
(first session of its second cycle) on the most appropriate mechanisms to continue the
work of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations…,
Decides to request the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on
Human Rights to convene an informal meeting in Geneva, for a day and a half, open
to the participation of States, indigenous peoples and other stakeholders preceding the
resumed sixth session in December of the Council to exchange views on the most
appropriate mechanisms to continue the work of the Working Group on Indigenous
Populations.
[Adopted without a vote] 21st meeting
28 September 2007
-----