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Article 11 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples states that:
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to practice and revitalize their cultural traditions and customs. This includes the right to maintain, protect and develop the past, present and future manifestations of their cultures, such as archaeological and historical sites, artifacts, designs, ceremonies, technologies and visual and performing arts and literature.

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Article 12 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples states:
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to manifest, practice, develop and teach their spiritual and religious traditions, customs and ceremonies; the right to maintain, protect, and have access in privacy to their religious and cultural sites; the right to the use and control of their ceremonial objects; and the right to the repatriation of their human remains.

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Article 13 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples states:
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to revitalize, use, develop and transmit to future generations their histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems and literatures, and to designate and retain their own names for communities, places and persons.

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Article 14 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples states:
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to establish and control their educational systems and institutions providing education in their own languages, in a manner appropriate to their cultural methods of teaching and learning.

2. Indigenous individuals, particularly children, have the right to all levels and forms of education of the State without discrimination.

Cesibel Cisneros, joven líder de 22 años de edad, de Perú, nos habla de la Red de Organizaciones de Jóvenes Indígenas del Perú – REOJIP y de cómo los jóvenes trabajan para el rescate y valorización de la cultura y de ser la continuidad de los mayores para no perder la diversidad en el país.

Victoria Sánchez, Indígena Muisca de Colombia nos habla sobre la lucha de su comunidad por el tema de las tierras, enfrentan muchos retos ya que esta comunidad geográficamente situado en el centro de Colombia y el gobierno distrital urbano han invadido los territorios de las comunidades, también menciona como el gobierno distrital y el nacional no les ampara ni le reconoce sus derechos de tierra pese a sus denuncias.