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DRAFT RESOLUTION AND DRAFT DECISIONS RECOMMENDED TO THE COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ADOPTION

Draft resolution

5. The legal implications of disappearance of States and other territories for environmental reasons, including the implications for the human rights of their residents, with particular reference to the rights of indigenous peoples

The Commission on Human Rights, taking note of Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights resolution 2004/10 of 9 August 2004, welcomes the working paper (E/CN.4/Sub.2/AC.4/2004/CRP.1) on the human rights situation of indigenous peoples in States and other territories threatened with extinction for environmental reasons and endorses the request of the Sub-Commission to Ms. Françoise Hampson to update and expand her work and submit an expanded working paper to the fifty-seventh session of the Sub-Commission. The Commission also endorses the request to the Secretary-General to provide Ms. Hampson with all necessary assistance to enable her to update and expand her working paper, inter alia, by facilitating her contacts with States, including transmitting a questionnaire elaborated by Ms. Hampson to solicit information required in connection with her study.