{"id":466,"date":"2011-08-07T15:39:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T19:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalcomponent.com\/press\/?p=466"},"modified":"2011-08-07T15:39:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T19:39:10","slug":"international-day-of-the-worlds-indigenous-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"International Day of the World\u2019s Indigenous People"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_467\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-467\" style=\"width: 541px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-467\" src=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Ind_Day.jpg\" alt=\"International Day of the World\u2019s Indigenous People\" width=\"541\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Ind_Day.jpg 541w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Ind_Day-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: \u00a9 Gleison Miranda-FUNAI\/Survival International Published with the permission of Survival International<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>August 9, 2011 marks the eleventh commemoration of the International Day of the World\u2019s Indigenous People. This year\u2019s theme is: Indigenous designs: celebrating stories and cultures, crafting our own future.<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with this day, and the important principle of self-determination, we wanted to promote the movement for tribal peoples and encourage you to join it. Survival International works with hundreds of tribal communities and organizations across the globe. They are \u201cfunded almost entirely by concerned\u00a0members of the public\u00a0and some foundations\u201d and refuse national government funding \u201cbecause governments are the main violators of tribal peoples\u2019 rights\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with their work of achieving recognition and respect of tribal people, they work to protect the lands of uncontacted tribes. Oil industries and illegal logging pose a serious threat to these tribes; namely, contact with outsiders could expose them to infectious diseases and wipe them out. It\u2019s for this reason that uncontacted tribes should be left alone and their lands should be protected.<\/p>\n<p>You can help by going to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivalinternational.org\/\">Survival International\u2019s website<\/a>. There, you can write a letter to President Garcia of Peru, President Rousseff of Brazil and Prime Minister Singh of India, urging them to protect uncontacted tribes. You can also donate to Survival International on their website.<\/p>\n<p>In honour of the International Day of the World\u2019s Indigenous People, Survival International has also compiled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivalinternational.org\/news\/7563\">a list of nine tribal facts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 9, 2011 marks the eleventh commemoration of the International Day of the World\u2019s Indigenous People. This year\u2019s theme is: Indigenous designs: celebrating stories and cultures, crafting our own future. In conjunction with this day, and the important principle of self-determination, we wanted to promote the movement for tribal peoples and encourage you to join &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=466\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;International Day of the World\u2019s Indigenous People&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[81,142,152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}