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Provisional Agenda:
Annotated provisional agenda
A/HRC/EMRIP/2025/1
Provisional Programme of Work
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- Concept Note - Item 5 - Interactive dialogue with members of the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development
- Concept Note - Item 7 - International Decade on Indigenous Languages
- Concept Note - Item 8 - Panel Discussion on fishing practices
- Concept Note - Item 8 - Panel on LGBTQIA+ Indigenous Peoples
- Concept Note - Item 11 -Enhancing the participation of Indigenous Peoples
- Study on the impact of militarisation on the rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Efforts to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: establishing effective monitoring mechanisms at the national and regional levels for the implementation of the Declaration
The Expert Mechanism provides the Human Rights Council with expertise and advice on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. It assists Member States in achieving the goals of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The Expert Mechanism conducts studies to advance the promotion and protection of Indigenous Peoples’ rights by:
- clarifying the implications of key principles, such as self-determination and free, prior and informed consent
- examining good practices and challenges in a broad array of areas pertaining to Indigenous Peoples’ rights,
- suggesting measures that States and others can adopt at the level of laws, policies and programmes.
About the mandate
The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) was established by the Human Rights Council, the UN’s main human rights body, in 2007 under resolution 6/36 as a subsidiary body of the Council. Its mandate was then amended in September 2016 by Human Rights Council resolution 33/25.
More on the history of this mandate.
About the experts
The Expert Mechanism is composed of seven independent experts on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. The experts are appointed by the Human Rights Council and are selected on the basis of competence and experience in the rights of Indigenous Peoples, due consideration for experts of indigenous origin, and gender balance.
Read more about the members of the Expert Mechanism.
