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The
Working Group on Indigenous Populations
(
WGIP
) was a subsidiary body within the structure of the
United Nations
. It was established in 1982, and was one of the six working groups overseen by the
Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
, the main subsidiary body of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (defunct 2006).
The WGIP had the following mandate:
Following the establishment of the
United Nations Human Rights Council
,
the role of the Working Group, which was a substructure of the disbanded
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
came under review. Some governments argued, that the working group duplicated the work of the
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
(UNPFII) and should therefore be discontinued, while indigenous peoples and NGOs pointed out that the UNPFII is not a human rights body and that the Working Group is the only body within the United Nations system that specifically deals with standard-setting concerning the human rights of indigenous peoples.
Eventually, the working group was discontinued and replaced by the
Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
, which held its first session in Geneva from 29 September to 3 October 2008.
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