Indigenous Peoples’ access to Health Services
2002 – A Voluntary Fund for Indigenous and Local Communities is established by the Convention on Biological Diversity (http://www.cbd.int). 2003 – A Voluntary Fund is established by the United Nations to support the Permanent Forum. 2005 – The Second International Decade for Indigenous People is launched (2005-2015), including a fund to support small-scale projects. 2005 – A Voluntary Fund for Indigenous and Local Communities is created by World Intellectual Property Rights. 2007 – The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the UN General Assembly (http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/declaration.html). 2007 – The new Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is established by the Human Rights Council. 2014 – High Level Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly also known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples.
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