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Policy Briefs | 10 February 2023

Why Indigenous languages matter: The International Decade on Indigenous Languages 2022–2032

PDF document available at: https://www.un.org/development/desa/dpad/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/publication/PB151.pdf Languages are one of the most significant emblems of human diversity, revealing how we can perceive, relate to, and understand the world differently. Languages are vehicles of our cultures, collective memory and values. They are an essential component of our identities. Out of the 6,700 languages spoken worldwide, forty percent are in danger of disappearing. Indigenous Peoples make up less than 6 percent of the global population, yet they speak more than 4,000 of the world’s languages. Most of the languages that are under threat are Indigenous languages. This dilemma is…

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UN ECOSOC Reports on Social Development | 06 February 2023

Why Indigenous languages matter: The International Decade on Indigenous Languages 2022–2032

Creating full and productive employment and decent work for all

Fourth review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002

Social dimensions of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development

Policies and programmes involving youth

Future organization and methods of work of the Commission for Social Development

Draft report – Commission for Social Development Sixty-first session

Report of the Board of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development

Nomination of members of the Board of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development

Preparations for and observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family