The Indigenous People and their Rights
- Indigenous populations are those who lived on a country’s current territory when people of other ancestry or culture arrived and were pushed out of it. This definition is provided by the UN.
- Today’s indigenous population adheres more to its own set of social, economic, and cultural norms and traditions than to those of the nation they now call home.
- Native Americans discuss their rights, agendas, and conflicts in the same ways as other social movements.
- Areas in Africa, India (where they are referred to as Tribals), Southeast Asia, Central and South America, and Africa are home to indigenous people.
- The term “indigenous people” in India refers to the scheduled tribes, which make up around 8% of the nation’s population.
- As the first of 11 indigenous non-governmental organisations to be granted consultative status in the UN, the World Council of Indigenous People was established in 1975.
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The introduction to Chapter 6 of the NCERT book for Class 12 Political Science, “Environment and Natural Resources,” broadens the conventional definition of international politics to include environmental concerns. The chapter emphasizes that environmental and natural resource-related issues are deeply political in addition to being geographical. Let’s explore Class 12 political science notes for chapter 6 “India’s Stand on Environmental Issues”.