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- It outlaws discrimination against indigenous peoples and promotes their full and effective participation in all matters that concern them. It also ensures their right to remain distinct and to pursue their own priorities in economic, social and cultural development.
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Indigenous Peoples are inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to people and the environment. They have retained social, cultural, economic and political...
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous...
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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The High Commissioner for Human Rights welcomed the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) by the General Assembly on 13 September 2007, as a triumph for justice and human dignity following more than two decades of negotiations between governments and indigenous peoples' representatives. It was adopt...
The Declaration is the most comprehensive instrument detailing the rights of indigenous peoples in international law and policy, containing minimum standards for the recognition, protection and promotion of these rights. It establishes a universal framework of minimum standards for the survival, dignity, wellbeing and rights of the world's indigeno...
Nov 24, 2022 · Indigenous Peoples continue to shape their participation in the United Nations. They engage actively with the organization through various Indigenous Peoples’ mechanisms. UN bodies and entities have also opened important spaces for their participation.
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was adopted by the General Assembly on Thursday, 13 September 2007, by a majority of 143 states in favour, 4 votes...
Sep 24, 2024 · UN Human Rights recently issued a Stocktaking report on Indigenous Peoples participation at the UN, which compiled existing procedures on their participation, highlighting prevailing gaps and good practices.
Sep 13, 2021 · Seventeen of the forty-five articles of the Declaration address indigenous culture and how to protect and promote it, by respecting the direct input of indigenous peoples in decision-making,...
Aug 9, 2017 · Ten years after the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, progress in several countries has been made in formally recognizing indigenous peoples, but overwhelmingly they...
