sentences:  Their goal was to create an over arching document that would help protect the rights and privileges of Indigenous Peoples throughout the world.The Declaration went through numerous drafts from 1994-2006, and a version had already been recommended by the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action in 1993.On Thursday, September 13, 2007 the United Nations voted by a vast majority of 144 in favor (4 against, 11 abstained) of the Declaration.