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9 August – International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
Aug 11
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Image by Helena Pfisterer on Unsplash
On 11 June 2024, UNESCO launched a new book Celebrating the living heritage of Indigenous Peoples (free to access).
‘Through this colourful publication, we celebrate and pay tribute to the efforts of Indigenous Peoples to safeguard their living cultures. UNESCO works with communities and diverse partners to achieve greater recognition of their worldviews and rights.’
In 2023 newspapers carried a story about three Colombian children and a baby who were found alive 40 days after the aircraft they were travelling in crashed in the remote Colombian rainforest. Their survival can be attributed to their profound knowledge of the forest and the adaptive skills passed down to them by Huitoto elders. You can read the story here.
In the listening in unit 11 of Develop Your English: with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals you can hear from two women at the forefront of the battle to protect ancestral lands in Canada.
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