Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is a new United Nations mechanism on the rights of indigenous peoples. This mechanism has been created by the Human Rights Council following an informal meeting on the most appropriate mechanisms to continue the work of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations.
The Expert Mechanism is a subsidiary expert mechanism of the Human Rights Council with a specific mandate. Composed of five experts, the Expert Mechanism will provide thematic expertise on the rights of indigenous peoples to the Human Rights Council, the main human rights body of the United Nations.
Resources 2011
The two key agenda items for the 2011 meeting were the right to participate in decision making and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Documents
The right to particiate in decision making
- Statement by Mick Gooda, Australian Human Rights Commission.
(July 2011) - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner's Submission to the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 4th session (July 2011)
- Chapter 3: From community crisis to community control in the Fitzroy Valley (Social Justice Report 2010)
- Agenda Item 4: Study on Indigenous Peoples and the right to participate in decisionmaking (July 2011)
- Agenda Item 3: Follow-up to thematic studies and advices (July 2011)
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Videos
Agenda 4: The Right to Participate in Decision-Making - delivered by Sandra Miller (Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement South Australia)
Agenda 4: The Right to Participate in Decision-Making - delivered by Les Malezer (National Congress of Australia's First Peoples)
Agenda 5: The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - delivered by Sandra Miller (Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement South Australia)
James Anaya - Statement of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, on the Right to Participate in Decision-Making and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Agenda Item 6 - Future Proposals: Sandra Miller
Agenda Item 6 - Future Proposals: Brian Wyatt
