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The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII or PFII) is the UN's central coordinating body for matters relating to the concerns and rights of the world's indigenous peoples. There are more than 370 million indigenous people (also known as native, original, aboriginal and first peoples) in some 70 countries worldwide. [1]
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP or DOTROIP [1]) is a legally non-binding United Nations resolution passed by the United Nations in 2007 that delineates and defines the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples, including their ownership rights, cultural and ceremonial expression, identity, language, employment, health, education, and other issues.
"The situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people" A/HRC/15/37 2009 "Analysis of the duty of States to consult with indigenous peoples on matters affecting them: insight into how duty to consult may be addressed by Governments, indigenous peoples, the United Nations system, and other stakeholders." A/HRC/12/34 2008
This is a list of indigenous rights organizations.Some of these organizations are members of other organizations listed in this article. Sometimes local organizations associated with particular groups of indigenous people will join in a regional or national organization, which in turn can join an even higher organization, along with other member supraorganizations.
She holds the Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law at UNSW [4] and is the Director of the Indigenous Law Centre, UNSW. [5] Davis was a United Nations expert on the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2011-2016) and UN expert on Indigenous rights on the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) (2017-2022).
The Working Group on Indigenous Populations (WGIP) was a subsidiary body within the structure of the United Nations.It was established in 1982, and was one of the six working groups overseen by the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, the main subsidiary body of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (defunct 2006).
Indigenous rights are those rights that exist in recognition of the specific condition of indigenous peoples.This includes not only the most basic human rights of physical survival and integrity, but also the rights over their land (including native title), language, religion, and other elements of cultural heritage that are a part of their existence and identity as a people.
The International Year of Indigenous Languages was a United Nations observance in 2019 that aimed to raise awareness of the consequences of the endangerment of Indigenous languages across the world, with an aim to establish a link between language, development, peace, and reconciliation.