International Conference on Exercising the Right to Self-determination and Autonomy of Indigenous Peoples19-21 January 2012
Dharan Declaration 2012
We, the indigenous nationalities, by exercising of our inherent, inalienable, innate, indivisible, and sovereign human rights,
Recalling various treaties and agreements signed between the indigenous peoples and the state based on the rights provided in the international laws and principlesincluding the United Nations Charter, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and International Labour Organization Convention 169; Embracing the principle that indigenous peoples and the state are parties of equal status fundamentally as well as legally; Accepting the innate identity and collective co-existence of indigenous peoples; Protecting the contributions and achievements made by the indigenous movement in establishing a federal democratic republic in Nepal;Guaranteeing the right to self-determination and autonomy and self-governance of indigenous peoples in the restructuring of the state in the constitution of Nepal, Issue this Declaration on this day, 21 January 2012,





