Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
Two foundational United Nations documents on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, self-hosted here for reliable field access. Each is available as a PDF in multiple official UN languages.
International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
The UN General Assembly resolution that established 9 August as the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, marking the date of the first session of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations in 1982.
Source: UN General Assembly, A/RES/49/214 — verify against the official UN record.
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
The most comprehensive international instrument on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, setting a universal framework of minimum standards for their survival, dignity, well-being, and rights.
Source: UN General Assembly, A/RES/61/295 — verify against the official UN record.
While researching the Resolution and Declaration for this page, we came across UNESCO’s Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) programme, which trained Tanzania’s Hadzabe and Namibia’s Juǀ’hoansi San communities on CyberTracker — an icon-based tool for low-literacy field data collection. We didn’t know about it when we built this tracker, but it’s an encouraging parallel — and a model worth watching as we think about future features like icon-driven logging.