The Indigenous World 2025: Zimbabwe - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs Zimbabwe celebrated its 44th year of independence on 18 April 2024. While the Government of Zimbabwe does not recognise any specific groups as Indigenous to the country, two peoples self-identify as such: the Tshwa (Tjwa, Cua) San found in western Zimbabwe, and the Doma (Vadema, Tembomvura) of Mbire District in north-central Zimbabwe.

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The Indigenous World 2025: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs Indigenous Peoples have rights over their traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions and genetic resources, including associated intellectual property rights, as recognized in Article 31 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). The

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The Indigenous World 2025: Venezuela - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs Venezuela’s Indigenous Peoples mainly inhabit the Amazon region, comprising the states of Amazonas, Bolívar and Delta Amacuro, in the south-east of the country. There are also Indigenous populations, although to a much lesser degree, in the states of Zulia, Apure, Lara, Guárico, Monagas and Sucre

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The Indigenous World 2025: United States of America - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs The number of Indigenous people in the United States of America is estimated at between 3.3 and 8.8 million,1 of which around 20% live in American Indian areas or Alaska Native villages. Indigenous Peoples in the United States are more commonly referred to as Native groups. The state with the largest Native population is California; the place with the largest Native population is New York City.

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The Indigenous World 2025: UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs The Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is one of the 59 “Special Procedures” of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Special Procedures are independent human rights experts with mandates to assess, report and advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective.

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The Indigenous World 2025: UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) is an expert body under the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Its mandate includes advising ECOSOC and UN agencies on Indigenous issues, raising awareness of these concerns, coordinating related activities across the UN system, and promoting the implementation and effectiveness of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

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The Indigenous World 2025: Indigenous Peoples’ Advocacy at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international treaty adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992 to tackle climate change.

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The Indigenous World 2025: UNESCO’S World Heritage Convention - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (“World Heritage Convention”) was adopted by UNESCO’s General Conference in 1972. With 196 States Parties, it is today one of the most widely ratified multilateral treaties.

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The Indigenous World 2025: Uganda - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs Indigenous Peoples in Uganda include former hunter-gatherer communities such as the Benet and the Batwa. They also include minority groups such as the Ik, and the Karamojong and Basongora pastoralists, who are not recognized specifically as Indigenous Peoples by the government.

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The Indigenous World 2025: Tunisia - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs As elsewhere in North Africa, the Indigenous population of Tunisia is formed of the Amazigh. There are no official statistics on their number in the country but Amazigh associations estimate there to be around 1 million Tamazight speakers, accounting for some 10% of the total population.

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The Indigenous World 2025: The work of the UN Treaty Bodies and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs The treaty bodies are the committees of independent experts in charge of monitoring the implementation by state parties of the rights protected in international human rights treaties.

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The Indigenous World 2025: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Indigenous Peoples - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs Indigenous Peoples have been engaging in relevant processes on sustainable development since the Earth Summit (Rio Conference) in 1992.

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The Indigenous World 2025: The Indigenous Navigator: Self-Determined Development - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs The Indigenous Navigator is an online portal providing access to a set of tools developed for and by Indigenous Peoples.

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The Indigenous World 2025: The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs United Nations Climate funds are financial mechanisms established under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and related agreements to support so-called developing countries to mitigate climate change, adapt to its effects, and transition to low-carbon, climate-resilient economies.

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The Indigenous World 2025: Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) is a subsidiary body of the Human Rights Council, composed of seven independent members each representing one of the seven Indigenous socio-cultural regions: Africa; Asia; the Arctic; Central and Eastern Europe, the Russian Federation, Central Asia, and Transcaucasia; Central and South America and the Caribbean; North America; and the Pacific.

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The Indigenous World 2025: Thailand - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs The Indigenous Peoples of Thailand live mainly in three geographical regions of the country: Indigenous fisher communities (the Chao Ley) and small populations of hunter-gatherers in the south (Mani people); small groups on the Korat plateau of the north-east and east; and the many different highland peoples in the north and north-west of the country (previously known by the derogatory term “Chao-Khao,” or “hill tribes”). Nine so-called “hill tribes” are officially recognized: the Hmong, Karen,

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The Indigenous World 2025: Tanzania - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs Tanzania is estimated to have a total of 125-130 ethnic groups, falling mainly into the four categories of Bantu, Cushite, Nilo-Hamite and San. While there may be more ethnic groups that identify as Indigenous Peoples, four groups have been organizing themselves and their struggles around the concept and movement of Indigenous Peoples.

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The Indigenous World 2025: Taiwan - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs The officially recognized Indigenous population of Taiwan numbers 611,674 people, or 2.6% of the total population in 2024.

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The Indigenous World 2025: Suriname - IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs The Indigenous Peoples of Suriname number approximately 20,344 people, or 3.8% of the total population of 541,638 (census 2012).

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