 The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Well, the elders in my community were very concerned about treaty violations and they concluded that we need to go to the international arena to try and get our treaties honored and respected. And from that initiative became the negotiations on the UN Declaration which resulted in the adoption of the Declaration by the Human Rights Council and then the General Assembly. When we reflect back on the 27 years of work on the Declaration we are very encouraged. The dream of our elders in the past is now there and being implemented back home. Private I'm shift to the recognition of Indigenous rights. Learn it, live it, love it. Undertreat has been our freedom on our land and territories and after extensive negotiations and failed negotiations we looked up to strategic litigation. We leaned on the opportunities that internationally established normatives such as the Declaration offers to Indigenous people. It formed a central part of our argument and the highest court of beliefs, the Supreme Court and the Caribbean Court of Justice have agreed that there is an obligation on the government under the spirit of the Declaration to ensure that the customary rights, the collective rights of the minor people ought to be protected under the Constitution equal to any other forms of protection of property guaranteed to all Malaysians. We were going against logging concession for our companies, huge land sales. We have seen a drastic reduction in those kinds of infringement so there's a lot to be grateful to the legal information that we've been able to achieve. We're still using the Declaration as a minimum standard for engagement and we've now developed a Maya Consultation Framework. That's just one step in the process of self-determination. Indigenous community winning a case against a government was unbelievable in Kenya. The County Government of Baringo are recognizing us as one of the stakeholders in management of Lake Bogoria. We are working and in developing community management plan because we had our traditional knowledge on how we used to manage this lake before the government affected us. We were identified that there is an Indigenous community called Endorais and we are proud of that. We could not imagine being recognized and we appreciate African Commission to have considered this land in my case. Getting our land back and having community people negotiating for the process was a achievement to us. OK, they are like our brother and sister. They were inspired by how our rights to our land was guaranteed. They suffer almost the same kind of injustice and they decided to put the case to African Court and they won. To our Tupua Act is the outcome of negotiated settlement for a very long period of time between the Crown and the iwi or tribes of the Whanganui River. The innovation is that the Act confers legal personality on the river itself. The declaration is being used in New Zealand to explain the intentions of the Treaty of Waitangi and to that extent the conferment of legal personality on a river which recognises its entitlement to respect and health and well-being fit entirely in with the articles of the declaration. There is no sense of ownership. I am the river and the river is me. We try to protect our rights, territories and natural resources by demanding free prior informed consent. We call mining companies. For us to have a stronger voice, we also use the declaration to push for our rights with insert. The UN Declaration has been a living document for us as Indigenous peoples. The government has not done its part to promote and enhance awareness of the declaration so Indigenous peoples have done that. They have done trainings, they have produced materials for that purpose. It has enabled the production of an FPIC guide for Saba to monitor implementation of rights. The aim of the Nordic Sami Convention is to adapt Andri to the situations in the Nordic states for the Sami people. That means, amongst other things, recognising in a legally binding document that the Sami people have a right to self-determination which is implemented through the Sami parliaments. And it has also articles on education, Sami languages and the most important ones on Sami land rights and resource rights. The declaration has inspired drafting the Sami Convention and the convention contains principles of the declaration. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Canada is a result of the largest class action lawsuit where children were removed from parents and the consequences of doing that to children over their lifetime. We went across the country listening to stories about children put into residential schools. A very tragic, sad history of physical, mental, cultural, spiritual and worst of all, sexual abuse. But from this dark chapter, we found a bright way, a bright light I think to find a solution going forward. How do we restore respectful relationships? And one of the ways we believe is by using the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a framework for reconciliation so that now people as they implement the UN Declaration are feeling a sense of justice, a sense of healing from the past harm because now the truth is out there. We use the Declaration as a foundation tool and advocacy looking at the ground to reach two persons with disabilities to ensure their rights. We are using the Declaration as much as possible at the local level and at the international level as well to defend our rights as human beings in relation to climate change. It has allowed the State to understand or at least to have or to think twice before entering an Indigenous territory. In the framework of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples the negotiators from the movement are inspired by certain articles of the Declaration. The Declaration is part of the Constitution. This has been a change in Indigenous Peoples. Now that they negotiate, they speak in dialogue with the State, they feel empowered. We have the law. They lack the application tests for the same rights. It's very exciting to see how Indigenous Peoples are using the UN Declaration to advance our historic struggles. Our Chiefs always says it's not the ceiling but it's the floor. It's the floor we never had before to stand on.