This International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2024 is focusing on ‘Protecting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact’.
Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact exercise their right to live and thrive apart from non-Indigenous societies. They coexist with Mother Earth in their lands and territories, where women and men, in harmony with biodiversity, develop their knowledge and become one with nature. Protecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact is essential to defending biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity, as well as their collective rights to lands and territories.