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    This document summarizes a resolution from the 5th Continental Meeting of Indigenous Women of the Americas regarding the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The resolution recognizes over 20 years of work on the Declaration, which establishes key rights for Indigenous peoples. It calls on all states in the Americas to immediately adopt the Declaration as passed by the UN Human Rights Council in 2006 without amendments, in order to protect Indigenous human rights, lands, self-determination, and freedom from violence and discrimination.

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    This document summarizes a resolution from the 5th Continental Meeting of Indigenous Women of the Americas regarding the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The resolution recognizes over 20 years of work on the Declaration, which establishes key rights for Indigenous peoples. It calls on all states in the Americas to immediately adopt the Declaration as passed by the UN Human Rights Council in 2006 without amendments, in order to protect Indigenous human rights, lands, self-determination, and freedom from violence and discrimination.

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    This document summarizes a resolution from the 5th Continental Meeting of Indigenous Women of the Americas regarding the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The resolution recognizes over 20 years of work on the Declaration, which establishes key rights for Indigenous peoples. It calls on all states in the Americas to immediately adopt the Declaration as passed by the UN Human Rights Council in 2006 without amendments, in order to protect Indigenous human rights, lands, self-determination, and freedom from violence and discrimination.

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    5thCONTINENTALMEETINGOFINDIGENOUSWOMENOFTHEAMERICAS ENLACERESOLUTION JULY12,2007 Subject:UnitedNationsDeclarationontheRightsofIndigenousPeoples Decision: WHEREAStheUnitedNations,togetherwithIndigenousPeoples,haveengagedinovertwenty yearsofworkdirectedatachievingagreementontheUnitedNationsDeclarationontheRights ofIndigenousPeoples(theDeclaration); WHEREASthisworkhasresultedintheUnitedNationsDeclarationontheRightsofIndigenous PeoplesadoptedbytheUnitedNationsHumanRightsCouncilinJune2006whichisessential tothesurvival,dignityandwellbeingofIndigenousPeoples; WHEREAS this Declaration as adopted

    opted by the Human Rights Council recognizes the human rightsofIndigenousPeoples,includingtherightofselfdetermination,rightsrelatedtolands, resourcesandterritoriesandpromotestherighttolivefreefromviolenceanddiscrimination; WHEREAS the United Nations Human Rights Council recommended this Declaration for immediateadoptionbytheUnitedNationsGeneralAssemblywhichdeferredconsiderationof this recommendation until no later than the end of its 61st session which is by September 2007;and WHEREASthe5thContinentalMeetingofIndigenousWomenoftheAmericas:Restoringour BalancehasfocusedontheimportanceofadvancingthehumanrightsofIndigenouswomen, their families and their communities. This Declaration is essential for achieving this goal as discussedbymanyparticipants, THEREFORE be it resolved that ENLACE calls upon all States within the Americas to vote in favoroftheimmediateadoptionoftheUnitedNationsDeclarationontheRightsofIndigenous PeoplesasadoptedbytheUnitedNationsHumanRightsCouncilin2006withoutamendment withoutdelay.

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