{"id":26518,"date":"2020-08-10T06:38:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=26518"},"modified":"2020-08-10T06:38:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T06:38:10","slug":"international-day-of-the-worlds-indigenous-peoples-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/international-day-of-the-worlds-indigenous-peoples-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is observed on 9 August each year to raise awareness and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population. This Day also recognizes the achievements and contributions that indigenous people make to improve world issues such as environmental protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The day is aimed at promoting and protecting the rights of the world\u2019s indigenous population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The date recognizes the first meeting of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations in Geneva in 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the year 2016, it was reported that about 2680 languages indigenous languages were in danger and on the verge of becoming extinct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hence, UN designated 2019 to be the International Year of Indigenous Languages to persuade, convince and create awareness to people about the Indigenous Languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, the administration under President Tsai Ing-wen approved a proposal that designated August 1 as Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Taiwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is observed on 9 August each year to raise awareness and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population. This Day also recognizes the achievements and contributions that indigenous people make to improve world issues such as environmental protection. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":26519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1248],"tags":[99],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-26518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-august-2020","tag-days-events-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26520,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26518\/revisions\/26520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26518"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=26518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}