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Under the auspices of the Secretariat of the Permanent Forum of the United Nations on Indigenous Issues
The United Nations is widely regarded as one of the most ambitious enterprises ever undertaken by humanity.
Its objectives include the promotion of human rights, the advancement of international development, and the
maintenance of international peace and security. The ambitious and high character of its aspirations is, in many
respects, both a strength and a weakness.
the United Nations’ most significant advantage, as well as the obstacle that it faces most often. Despite
significant advancements achieved during
Over the first sixty years of the United Nations’ existence, there has been a persistent sense of dissatisfaction
with the fact that the poorest of the poor, the most
Those who are socially excluded and subjected to discrimination continue to be denied the fundamental rights to
human dignity, advancement, and safety.
The interests of indigenous peoples have not always been represented at the United Nations, and throughout the
first decades of the organization’s existence, this trend continued.
regardless of the presence of the Organization, their opinions were not taken into consideration there. This has
gradually evolved, and the United States
In recent years, the United Nations organization has made a number of initiatives to make amends for previous
mistakes, and they have been progressively developing
collaborations with the native peoples of the area.
Indigenous peoples, who number more than 370, have had a lively and active interaction with one another
throughout history.
million people in some ninety different nations—and the United Nations, an interface that, as challenging as it
is, has resulted in at least
at a minimum of three results: a) a fresh understanding of the issues of indigenous peoples and human rights; b)
acknowledgement of indigenous peoples’
the significant contribution that indigenous peoples have made to the cultural variety and history of mankind,
not the least of which is via their
traditional wisdom; and c) an understanding of the need to solve the difficulties that indigenous peoples are
facing via
policies, legislative proposals, and budgetary considerations In conjunction with the movements for
decolonization and human rights, in addition to the
Besides the women’s and the environmental movements, one of the most active civil society movements has
been the indigenous movement.
From the year 1945, the United Nations has had interlocutors.
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