The 2030 Agenda aims to empower vulnerable people, including indigenous peoples, through economic development, equal access to education and social, economic and political inclusion (Sustainable Development Goals 2, 4 and 10).
The United Nations (UN) has also declared 9 August to be the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples and the decade of 2022-2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. The former has as its primary objective to protect indigenous languages that are at risk of disappearing.