17. 该新成立的工作组在第七十八届会议期间举行了会议，并选举格拉迪丝·阿科斯塔·巴尔加斯为主席。工作组更新了起草和通过一般性建议的内部工作计划和暂定时间表，并向委员会提交了一项决定草案，决定在第七十九届会议期间就土著妇女和女童权利举行为期半天的一般性讨论。
17. The newly constituted working group met during the seventy-eighth session and elected Gladys Acosta Vargas as its Chair. The group updated its internal workplan and tentative timeline for drafting and adopting the general recommendation. It submitted a draft decision to the Committee to hold a half-day general discussion on the rights of indigenous women and girls during the seventy-ninth session.