ويمكن أن يقود هذا العمل المتمثل في التدوين والبلورة على المدى المتوسط إلى إعداد مشروع اتفاقية بشأن حماية الشعوب الأصلية.
The following list includes proposals received by the Office of the High Commisisoner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and those recorded in the reports of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations (WGIP) from 1997-2002, as well as a proposal made by the members of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at its first session in 2002: