These seminars and workshops have proven to be useful tools for the Special Rapporteur to continue to examine ways and means, in conformity with his mandate, of overcoming existing obstacles to the full and effective protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people as well as to receive information from all possible sources on the topics included in his first report to the Commission (E/CN.4/2002/97).
These seminars and workshops have proven to be useful tools for the Special Rapporteur to continue to examine ways and means, in conformity with his mandate, of overcoming existing obstacles to the full and effective protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people as well as to receive information from all possible sources on the topics included in his first report to the Commission (E/CN.4/2002/97).