Editors --- "Report of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations - Digest" [1996] AUIndigLawRpr 29; (1996) 1(1) Australian Indigenous Law Reporter 128

United Nations Working Group On Indigenous Populations

In its resolution 1982/34 of 7 May 1982, the Economic and Social Council authorised the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities to establish annually a working group on indigenous populations with the mandate to review developments pertaining to the promotion and protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples, giving special attention to the evolution of standards concerning the rights of indigenous peoples.

The standard-setting activities of the Working Group resulted in the adoption, at its eleventh session in 1993, of a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples.

The twelfth session of the Working Group took place in Geneva from 25 to 29 July 1994. The conclusions and recommendations adopted by the Working Group at the conclusion of that session are reproduced below.

The Working Group recently met for the thirteenth time. Extracts from the report of that session will be reproduced in volume one, issue two of the AILR.