International Day of the World's Indigenous People
Indigenous peoples, also referred to as first people, aboriginal people, native people, or autochthonous people, are culturally distinct ethnic groups who are native to a place which has been colonised and settled by another ethnic group.
International Day of the World's Indigenous People Indigenous peoples are peoples who lived on certain lands before the arrival of immigrants from other places there. Indigenous peoples are representatives of different races, cultures, linguistic groups, religions and live on virtually all inhabited continents; they are at different stages of social, economic and cultural development. Indigenous peoples live in all parts of the Earth: these include, for example, the Evenks in the Far East, the Eskimos and Aleuts in the Polar regionNorth America and the Far East, the Sami in Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula, the Maori in New Zealand, the Indians in America as part of the world, etc. There are about 300 million of them. International recognition of the special rights of the indigenous population began in 1957, when the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention No. 107 "On the Protection and Integration of Indigenous and Other Tribal and Semipribal Populations in Independent Countries" was adopted. In 1994 The UN General Assembly has proclaimed the International Day of the World's Indigenous People. Currently, representatives of indigenous peoples regularly participate in the work of the United Nations and many other international bodies, such as the Arctic Council. From 26 to 29 March 2012, the International Conference of Indigenous Television Journalists was held in Keutukeinu (Finnmark) in the building of the Sami High School. Within its framework, seminars and master classes for journalists were held,working for newsrooms broadcasting in indigenous languages. And 2019 has been declared the International Year of Indigenous Languages by the United Nations. As we know, the Riddu Riddu culture festival has been held annually since 1991 in Northern Norway. Initially it was a festival of Sami culture, later "Riddu Riddu" became the main international multicultural festival of indigenous peoples. Skabmagovat, an annual international film festival, has been held annually since 1998 in Inari (Sami region of Finland)l indigenous peoples.
On September 22, 2009 the UN Secretariat issued special postage stamps dedicated to this International Day.
Sona HALYKOVA,
the student of the Faculty of
International Journalism
of
the Institute of International Relations
of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan