Aligned with our advocacy efforts towards U.N. mandate holders to continuously strengthen public services and human rights standards, the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) submitted two oral statements during the HRC 54.

The oral statement prepared for the interactive dialogue with the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples welcomed the EMRIP’s report “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.” It thanked the Expert Mechanism for their efforts in promoting, protecting, and fulfilling the rights of Indigenous Peoples. It highlighted the importance of EMRIP’s proposal of collecting and disseminating disaggregated data and its relevance to monitoring Indigenous Peoples' access to quality public services, such as education and healthcare. It also stressed the importance of establishing pertinent indicators, benchmarks, and evaluation methods to assess the degree to which Indigenous Peoples enjoy their economic, social, and cultural rights.

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The oral statement prepared for the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco Calí Tzay, welcomed his report on Green Financing – a just transition to protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples. It called to the Special Rapporteur’s attention one aspect often underestimated: the need to direct green climate finance to expanding public services, which are vital to addressing the climate emergency. It highlighted that a strong system of public services is one of the most effective means to immediately respond to climate-related disasters and create societies that provide well-being conditions within planetary boundaries.

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