First published in ABC News

A Federal Government report to the United Nations says compensation is due to be paid to Aboriginal communities it took over as part of the Northern Territory Emergency Response.

The Government has told the UN committee on the elimination of racial discrimination that it is working to meet its international obligations in relation to Indigenous people

The UN committee gave the Government until the end of July to report on its plans to reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act.

The UN expressed concern that the Act had been suspended to implement the Northern Territory Emergency Response after a group of Aboriginal residents in prescribed areas made a call to the UN for urgent action on their behalf.

One of the residents, Barbara Shaw, has also brought a Federal Court injunction against the Government's proposed takeover of Alice Springs town camps.

In its response to the UN, the Government says it is consulting residents in prescribed areas about possible changes to the intervention legislation.

Changes could include compulsory welfare quarantining.

In its report, the Government says it has asked the NT auditor-general to determine reasonable amounts of rent to be paid to the Aboriginal owners of land leased for five years under the intervention legislation.

It says the payments will be backdated to 2007 and paid as soon as the determination, which is imminent, is made.

The Government says it will then introduce legislation to ensure the measures comply with the Racial Discrimination Act.