A High-level commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was held on 17 May 2012. Click here to download the text of the resolution (A/RES/66/142) adopted by the General Assembly. Statements were made by Member States, Indigenous Peoples and UN Agencies.  

Press Conference on Fifth Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
>>>Article
>>>Video

>>>Programme of work

>>>Webcast of the High- Level Commemoration

>>>Statement by UNPFII Chairperson Grand Chief Ed John

>>>Message from H.E. Danilo Turk, President of the Republic of Slovenia

>>>Statement by H.E. Luis Alfonso de Alba, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations

>>>Statement by H.E. Carlos Enrique Garcia Gonzales, Permanent Representative of El Salvador to the United Nations 

>>>Statement by H.E. Carsten Staur, Permanent Representative of Denmark to the United Nations

>>>Statement by the Arctic Caucus

>>>Statement by the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus