23- وتم التأكيد بحق على أن المعايير الدولية المتعلقة بحماية الشعوب الأصلية بدأت تُحدِث أثرها في عمل الهيئات التي تتولى رصد الامتثال للمعاهدات: وتطبق هذه المعايير بوجه خاص لجنة حقوق الإنسان واللجنة المعنية بالقضاء على التمييز العنصري.
It has rightly been stressed that international standards relating to the protection of indigenous peoples have started to influence the work of the treaty monitoring bodies: thus, these standards are being applied by the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; this now routine approach shows that standards relating to the protection of these peoples are increasingly widely recognized.