A/HRC/44/34 UNESCO and other international agencies; include indigenous peoples as partners in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda; and implement the provisions of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and those of other relevant instruments. IV. Concluding comments from the panellists and the moderator 29. Mr. Wyatt reiterated the commitment of the Government of Australia to the promotion and protection of indigenous languages, illustrating that fact by mentioning the ongoing efforts in State institutions to safeguard recordings of various indigenous languages. Revitalization was also being driven by indigenous communities, with a number of projects organized by and with elders and young people in a variety of spaces, notably in schools. Efforts to enhance the visibility of indigenous languages, such as signage and cartographic information displaying the indigenous names of cities, would continue. He echoed concerns related to the loss of identity and connection to the world and one’s own community when the knowledge of a language withered, giving the example of the rift that could occur within families when persons experience dementia and revert to their mother tongue. There was a need to ensure the perpetuity of language in order to support a broader, more diverse vision of the world. He asserted that the Government of Australia would continue to support indigenous languages and communities and their growth. 30. Mr. Amouzay pointed to the important challenge facing the international community in creating binding mechanisms, both institutional and legal, which would be able to revitalize indigenous languages and guarantee linguistic rights. He responded to questions regarding the scope of international legal frameworks in enabling the revitalization of indigenous languages, noting that such structures were important to implementing collective cultural rights, but that stakeholders at all levels within that multidimensional field also played a crucial role as advocates. 31. Ms. Kasinskaite highlighted the need to address the full spectrum of rights and fundamental freedoms related to the question of indigenous languages, which must be mainstreamed across different institutional mechanisms at all levels. Indigenous peoples faced demographic transitions, limited political participation, poor living conditions and limited access to a number of rights, namely, the right to education, the right to access to justice, the right to public services provided in their languages and the right to stable economic situations. Those circumstances limited indigenous peoples in the use of their own languages, and that situation could be addressed through crosscutting, broad solutions. She underlined the successes of the International Year of Indigenous Languages and called for the continuation of similar efforts in the coming years, especially with 10 years left for the fulfilment of the Sustainable Development Goals. 32. Ms. Carpenter concluded the panel discussion by recalling that indigenous peoples’ languages were living languages, even if they and their speakers had suffered and required remedies in the present. She underlined that indigenous peoples’ languages were critical to the present and future of the rights of indigenous peoples and expressed the hope for the establishment of an international decade of indigenous languages. 6