EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE REPORT OF THE WORKING GROUP ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES [Dec 11 2007]
Report prepared by a coalition of indigenous organizations and individuals, including the Indian Law Resource Center. The report was submitted to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on December 11, 2007 as part of a national report by NGOs.

General Assembly Adopts Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples; 'Major Step Forward' Toward Human Rights for All [Sep 13 2007]
United Nations Department of Public Information, News and Media Division in New York. Summary of Sixty-first General Assembly; Plenary; 107th & 108th Meetings. Includes voting information and statements made regarding the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on Sept. 13, 2007

Status of UN Declaration: How Tribes can Ensure their Human Rights are Recognized and Protected [Aug 31 2007]
by the staff of the Indian Law Resource Center.

Suggested changes to text of UN Declaration by the 67 Co-Sponsors
This is the text of proposed changes by the 67 countries that are co-sponsors of the Declaration.

Human Rights Council Resolution 2006/2 - Forwarding the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to the General Assembly [Jun 01 2006]
Human Rights Council resolution forwarding Declaration to the General Assembly

Statement before the United Nations Human Rights Council (Robert T. Coulter) [Jun 27 2006]
Geneva Switzerland June 27, 2006

Comment Concerning the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (by Armstrong Wiggins [Jun 27 2006]

Strategy Considerations for Draft Declaration in UN Human Rights Council [May 12 2006]

Memorandum in Response to the Letter Concerning the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples -Indian Country Today [May 17 2006]
by Robert T. Coulter, Executive Director

Indigenous Peoples and the Law of Self-Determination: A Possible Consensus (by Robert T. Coulter) [Oct 18 2002]

U.N. Human Rights Council adopts Declaration on Indigenous Rights (Indian Country Today) [Jul 05 2006]

Coulter: Determined to get consensus (Indian Country Today) [May 17 2006]

Indigenous Rights Declaration moves to Human Rights Council [Mar 31 2006]
Indian Country Today

U.N. negotiations on indigenous rights wrap up for now (Indian Country Today) [Feb 17 2006]
Indian Country Today

Indigenous human rights negotiations progress [Dec 30 2005]
Indian Country Today

Innu fight for survival and Nitassinan [Dec 30 2005]
Indian Country Today

Testimony Before the United Nations Human Rights Committee (Lucy Simpson) [Mar 13 2006]

Consideration of the Report of the United States to the UN Human Rights Committee [Jul 01 2006]
regarding its compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.ADVANCE UNEDITED VERSION (July 2006)

Addendum to Indigenous peoples permanent sovereignty over natural resources [Jul 01 2004]
Addendum to Final report of the Special Rapporteur Erica-Irene A. Daes

Indigenous peoples permanent sovereignty over natural resources [Jul 01 2004]
-- Final report of the Special Rapporteur Erica-Irene A. Daes

Indigenous peoples and their relationship to land [Jun 01 2001]
Final working paper prepared by the Special Rapporteur Mrs. Erica-Irene A. Daes

General Comment No. 23 on Article 27 (The Rights of Minorities) of the Covenant for Civil and Political Rights
(by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights) 1994-08-04 CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.5, General Comment No. 23. (General Comments)

Conference for Sustainable Development -- Agenda 21, Chapter 26
Recognizing and Strengthening the Role of Indigenous Peoples and Their Communities

Report of the World Conference against Racism Racial Discrimination Xenophobia and Related Intolerance [Sep 01 2001]
Durban 31 August - 8 September 2001

Declaration adoption marks the end of the first step [Sep 21 2007]
Indian Country Today article by Gale Courey Toensing on the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 13.