International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples celebrated on August 09

It is celebrated to create awareness among people and to protect the rights of the world's indigenous people.

The International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples is celebrated on August 9 each year. It is celebrated to create awareness among people and to protect the rights of the world's indigenous people.

Indigenous peoples are those who inherit and practice unique cultures and practices, and who have social, cultural, economic and political characteristics that differ from the predominant societies in which they live. The theme of this year's conference is "Leaving Nobody Behind: Indigenous Peoples and the Call for a New Social Contract".

August 9 marked the first meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Peoples in Geneva in 1982 due to which the General Assembly of the United Nations decided to celebrate August 9 as International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples on December 23, 1994.

In 1993, the UN General Assembly proclaimed the International Year of the World Indigenous Peoples, and in the same year the Assembly proclaimed the International Decade of the World Indigenous Peoples, beginning December 10, 1994. The second International Decade of the World Indigenous Peoples ran from 2005 to 2015.