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Despite progress, right of indigenous peoples continue to be violated, ten years after the adoption of the United Nations declaration 27th January 2017 New York Experts from around the world met at United Nations Head-quarters on 25-27 January to assess the achievement and challange in putting into effect the United Nations Declaration on the right of the Indigenous peoples, almost ten years after the landmark documents was adopted. All global level, much has been done to promote the right of the indigenous people says Les Malezer a member of UN permanent forums on the indigenous issues, emphasizing that, much more need to happen at national and regional level to improve the life of the indigenous people and their control to decide their own futures. At the meeting Experts provided examples of how provision of the United Nations declaration on the right of the indigenous people have been integrated at national, regional and global level. Nationally, indigenous people's right have been recognised in constitution and laws in several countries. However, there is still an urgent need to harmonize national policy and legislation with United Nations declaration. Advance at the global level includes the world conference on indigenous people (2014) and the inclusion of the indigenous people's right in 2030. Agenda for sustainable development. The Addis Ababa action agenda as well as the poris agreement, despite these advances, indigenous people continue to face violation of their right. Indigenous participants at meeting emphasizesd in particular the increased threats to indigenous human rights defenders, including the criminalisation of the social protest. Member states. United Nations agencies and indigenous peoples organization participated in the meeting as well as three indigenous specific-United Nations mechanism. The special raporteur on the right of the indigenous people. The expert mechanism on the right of indigenous people. The permanent forum on the indigenous issues. Participants identified short medium and long term strategies to implement United Nations declaration including its linkage with the sustainable development goals. Concrete commitment among the three mechanism emerged under their mandates and how to setup cooperation to take a strategic approach towards the implemention of the United Nations declaration. The final reports and the recommendation of the experts group meetings will be submitted to the United Nations permanent forum on the indigenous issues, at its 2017 sessions in April-May this year. The United Nations declaration on the right of the indigenous peoples adopted by the United Nations (GA) general assembly on 13th Sept 2007, embodied a global consensus on individuals and collective rights of indigenous people including the right to self-determination, traditional land, education, health and to pursue a distinct visions of economic and social-development           Csonet-biafra (talk) 14:56, 3 March 2017 (UTC) Csonet-biafra (talk) 16:22, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

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21 March 2016. The customary government of Biafra through the media representative Comrade Chinedu Azuzu has commenced daily news bulletting to update the public on the background of the current diplomatic efforts to restore Biafra. Accordingly, Comrade Chinedu conformed that Biafra will be restored without firing any bullet and therefore advised Biafrans to be obedient to the instructions of the supreme council of elders. The new bulletting further stated as follow: We need to understand the difference between citizeship of sovereign state and the indigenous identity of a people. The United Nations declaration on the rights of the indigenous people, Res61/295 of 2007 and Article 19-22, African charter for human right of peoples (ratification and enforcement) Act Cap 10, laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990 (Now LFN 2004) made it clear that there is a difference between the citizenship of a sovereign country and the indigenous identities of the people that dwell in the country. Csonet-biafra (talk) 03:44, 14 March 2017 (UTC)