09/08/2026
🌏🖤💛❤️ International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples | Honouring Indigenous Midwives 🖤💛❤️
Today, Allied Justice joins Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and Indigenous communities worldwide to celebrate the strength, resilience, knowledge and cultures of the world's First Peoples.
This year's International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples theme, "Honouring Indigenous Midwives: Safeguarding Life and Well-being", recognises the vital role Indigenous midwives play as knowledge holders, carers and community leaders. Indigenous midwifery embodies generations of cultural knowledge, supporting families, strengthening cultural identity and ensuring the continuity of Indigenous ways of life.
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, the passing down of cultural knowledge, connection to Country, community care, and holistic approaches to health and wellbeing have sustained people for tens of thousands of years. Today's theme reminds us of the importance of protecting and valuing Indigenous knowledge systems and ensuring culturally safe, accessible care for future generations.
As we celebrate World Indigenous Day, we acknowledge the ongoing contributions of First Nations peoples as leaders, healers, advocates, carers and custodians of culture. We reaffirm our commitment to justice, self-determination and the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
We honour the wisdom of our Elders, the strength of our communities, and the generations of knowledge that continue to shape a healthier, more just future for all.
🖤💛❤️ Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land. 🖤💛❤️
