International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples is observed on August 9 every year across the world.  The Commission on Human Rights adopted a resolution to consider the issues of indigenous people set up by the permanent UN Forum presented by the Economic and Social Council in April 2000.

They aimed at issues like education, culture, economic and social development, the environment, health, human rights. There is a 476 million indigenous population living across 90 countries across the globe.

They hold a vast diversity of unique cultures, traditions, languages, and knowledge systems and have a special relationship with nature.

This day is dedicated to the contribution and achievement of indigenous people in a vast diversity of unique cultures, traditions, languages, and knowledge systems.

The day is observed to raise awareness to protect the social, economic, and political rights of the indigenous communities.

The theme for International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 2021 is “Leaving no one behind: Indigenous peoples and the call for a new social contract. “

Nagasaki Day 2021

Nagasaki Day is observed on 9 August. On this day US dropped an atomic bomb on the Nagasaki city of Japan in 1945 during World War II. In the history of the world nuclear attack was seen first and last time in the cities of Japan; Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The first bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima and the second was dropped on Nagasaki on 9 August . The bomb was uranium bomb. When it was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, it had an explosive yield equal to 15,000 tonnes of TNT. Just two days later on 9 August, larger plutonium bomb exploded over Nagasaki killed around 74,000 people or more.

The devastation caused due to the bombing led Japan to surrender in World War II. According to the sources reason behind dropping the atomic bomb on Japan two cities and according to the US President Truman is the military. Dropping the bomb would end the war quickly and effectively with the least amount of casualties on the U.S side.