International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples [Explored]

Local fisherman fishing in traditional way at Satkosia Gorge Sanctuary, Tikarpada. Satkosia is the meeting point of two major bio-geographic regions of India; the Deccan Peninsula and the Eastern Ghats, contributing immense biodiversity. Satkosia spreads along the magnificent gorge over the mighty river Mahanadi in Odisha (Orissa) state of India.

 

The International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples is commemorated annually on 9 August in recognition of the first meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations, held in Geneva in 1982.

 

There are an estimated 370 million indigenous people in some 90 countries around the world who constitute 15 per cent of the world's poor and about one third of the world's 900 million extremely poor rural people. Practicing unique traditions, they retain social, cultural, economic and political characteristics that are distinct from those of the dominant societies in which they live.

 

Marking the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples today (9 August 2014), United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said indigenous peoples have a central interest in development and can act as 'powerful agents of progress.' More: www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=48453#.U-Z3nvldXL8

 

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