By Rudina Vojvoda

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Youth reading the adolescent-friendly version of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples during a launch event for the publication held at UNICEF’s New York headquarters.
In this episode of Beyond School Books, a distinguished panel discusses realizing the right of indigenous peoples to education that is appropriate to their cultural methods of teaching and learning.
NEW YORK, 10 June 2013 – Of the 370 million indigenous people in the world, approximately 67 million are youth. Know Your Rights! – the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) written specifically for indigenous adolescents – is aiming to do exactly that: encourage young people to know their rights, protect them and become an active part of decision-making in their community.
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