The eleventh session of the inter-sessional working group on the draft United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples (WGDD) will take place from 5 – 16 December 2005 and 30 January – 3 February 2006.

The open-ended inter-sessional WGDD was established in 1995 accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 1995/32 and Economic and Social Council resolution 1995/32. The Working Group has the sole purpose of elaborating a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, considering the draft contained in the annex to resolution 1994/45 of 26 August 1994 entitled draft "United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples". The draft is being prepared for consideration and adoption by the General Assembly during the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People.

Source: ohchr