COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Sixty-first session
Working Group established in accordance with
Commission on Human Rights resolution 1995/32 of March 1995
Tenth Session
Geneva
13 –24 September 2004 (1st part)
The following reports, proposals and observations published here
provide a general understanding and overview of the first two weeks (1st part)
of the tenth session of the Working Group on the Draft United Nations
Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
This information serves as background to the comprehensive list
of Working Documents and Dialogue Between Nations’ coverage
of the third and final week of the tenth session
November 29 to December 3, 2004 (2nd part)
R E P O R T S
Conference Room Paper 3 (CRP.3)
E/CN.4/2004/WG.15/CRP.3
21 September 2004
Original: ENGLISH
INDIGENOUS ISSUES
Draft report of the working group established in accordance with
Commission on Human Rights resolution 1995/32
Chairperson-Rapporteur: Mr. Luis-Enrique Chávez (Peru)
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ CENTRE FOR DOCUMENTATION,
RESEARCH AND INFORMATION
doCip
UPDATE 61
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2004
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Warning
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Organisation of work
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Position of the States present at
the session
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Position of the indigenous
peoples’ organisations and NGOs
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Preamble paragraphs and articles
that present no changes in CRP.1
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Preamble paragraphs and articles
which are considered to be close to consensus
· and for which CRP.1 presents amendments
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Preamble paragraphs and articles
discussed on the basis of the amendments
proposed in CRP.1
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Preamble paragraphs and articles
regarding self-determination
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Articles regarding lands and
territories presented by CRP.1 with amendments
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Group of articles presented for
discussion by the Chair upon request of certain delegations

Kent Lebsock
Executive Director
American Indian Law Alliance
Report of the
American Indian Law Alliance
interpreted by Kent Lebsock
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Intersessional Working Group on the
Draft Declaration of the World's Indigenous
Peoples
Xth Session - September 2004
PROPOSALS AND
OBSERVATIONS
Statement of the Haudenosaunee, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation,
and the Indian Law Resource Center
Concerning the Proposals Relating to Self-Determination
Do
Not Accept "Principles of International Law" in PP 15
Do not accept the proposal to limit our right of self-determination
28 November, 2004
Preliminary Observations on the Draft Declaration
as Tabled by the Nordic Countries, New Zealand and Switzerland
11 September, 2004
Tenth
Session (2nd Part)
29 November – 3 December, 2004
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