The IPC supports International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 9 August 2024

The Information and Privacy Commission NSW (IPC) supports International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, commemorated annually on 9 August. 

This year’s theme is ‘Protecting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact’ focusing on the rights of Indigenous communities in voluntary isolation. Around 200 groups of Indigenous Peoples around the world currently live in voluntary isolation and initial contact. These communities are the best protectors of the forest so where their collective rights to lands and territories are protected, the forests thrive, alongside their societies. Not only is their survival crucial to the protection of our planet, but it is crucial to the protection of cultural and linguistic diversity of these communities.

The UN is hosting a virtual commemoration of the day on 9 August, to discuss who Indigenous Peoples in voluntary isolation and initial contact are, and the pressing challenges that they face for their survival. More information can be found on the UN website https://www.un.org/en/observances/indigenous-day.

The IPC is committed to promoting the right to access government-held information and the protection of privacy of people within diverse communities in NSW, and aims to ensure that its services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are accessible, relevant and useful.

View the IPC’s resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities of NSW and resources about citizens’ information access rights and privacy rights in NSW.