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. paradigm shift to the recognition of Indigenous rights. Under tret 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 of the Indigenous Peoples. 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 customer rights, the collective rights of the Maya people ought to be protected under the Constitution equal to any other forms of protection of property guaranteed to all religions. We were going against logging concession for our companies, huge land sales. We have seen an drastic reduction in those kind of infringement. So there's a lot to be grateful to the legal information that we've been able to achieve. We are still using the Declaration as a minimum standard for engagement. 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 the government was unbeatable in Kenya. The government of Baringo, recognizing us as one of the stakeholders in management of Lake Borgoria. We are working on an in developing community management plan because we had our traditional knowledge. On our way here we used to make this like before the government effected us. We identified that there is a indigenous community called Endorai's and we are proud of that. We could not imagine being recognized and we appreciate African Commission to have considered this land market. Getting our land back and having community people, negotiating for the process was a achievement to us. The okay, they are like our brother and sister. They were inspired by our rights to our land was guaranteed. They saw almost the same kind of injustice and they decided to put their guests to African court and they won. Our Tupua Act is the outcome of negotiated settlement of a very long period of time between the Crown and the Iwi or tribes of the Funganui 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 confumant of legal personality on a river which recognizes 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 with Karl Manning Company. For us to have a stronger voice, we also use the Declaration to push for our rights within the Church. The UN Declaration has been a living document 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 Sabah to monitor implementation of rights. The aim of the Nordic Samu Convention is to adapt under the situations in the Nordic states for the Samu people. That means amongst other things recognizing in a legally binding document that the Samu people have a right to self-determination, which is implemented through the Samu polomans. And it has also articles on education, semi-language and the most important ones on semi-land rights and resource rights. The Declaration has inspired drafting the Samu Convention and the Convention contains principles of the Declaration. Well the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Canada is as a result of the largest class acts in lawsuit where children were removed from parents and the consequences of doing that to children over their lifetime, where 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, six-wool abuse. But from this dark chapter, we found a bright way, 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 because now the truth is out there. It has served as a tool of rights and rights for Indigenous peoples. In that sense we could negotiate or plan to be a regional differentiated for the youth of Indigenous Indigenous peoples. We use the Declaration as a foundation to and advocate 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 in the international level as well to defend our rights as human beings in relation to climate change. We think two times before entering Indigenous territory. The Declaration is part of the Constitution. This has been a change in Indigenous peoples. Now that the people who negotiate, speak dialogue with the state, they feel empowered. It is the application for the UN. 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.