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Kaimana Barcarse interviews Menase Ntutu from the Maasai nation about the concerns of Indigenous Peoples living with disabilities, and how communities can collaborate to support the work of the Disability Caucus. Recorded at the 2015 UNPFII. 

Kaimana Barcarse interviews Doreen Demas of the Dakota Peoples in Canada about the focus, message, and goals of the Disability Caucus at the UNPFII. She discusses the growing impact and voice of the Indigenous with Disabilities activist community. Recorded at the 2015 UNPFII.

Kaimana Barcarse interviews Setareki Macanawai from Fiji. They discuss how the Disability Caucus hopes to extend its presence to regions and communities, in order to grow the network of Indigenous Peoples with disabilities. Recorded at the 2015 UNPFII. 

Kaimana Barcarse interviews Perty Maguru from Nepal about the unique dual identity that Indigenous Peoples with disabilities occupy. She hopes to help bring a voice to this community. Recorded at the 2015 UNPFII. 

Nancy Bordeaux (Sicangu Lakota) from South Dakota shares her work in domestic violence and sexual assault and gives advice on how to make a change. She speaks about historical trauma and its effects on Native American peoples today. Nancy works with women who are victims of domestic violence and human trafficking and hopes to lessen the economic and mental health disparities in Indigenous women.  We caught up with Nancy at the UNPFII 2015. 

Lemoine LaPointe, a Lakota of South Dakota and Minnesota, speaks about community conversations and their importance in providing support for Indigenous Peoples and their relationship with the surrounding region both in the present and in the future.  We met up with Lemoine at the UNPFII 2015.

Catherine Murupaenga-Ikenn speaks about successes at the 2015 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Communities in the Pacific region have united over common issues, different groups have made efforts to align as Indigenous Peoples as a body in international conferences, and Indigenous Peoples were represented in a major climate change conference.

Catherine Murupaenga-Ikenn speaks about successes at the 2015 UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues, including the new participation on Indigenous Peoples of Japan and Taiwan in the conferences.

Indigenous Rights Radio Producer Shaldon Ferris interviews Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, about the Dakota Access Pipeline. Vicky describes the central tensions underlying the current conflict, and details the opportunities for recourse available to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe through both local and international governing bodies.

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Interview with Vicky Tauli-Corpuz
Production by Shaldon Ferris

Music:
"Danum", by Salidumayy DKK

IRR Producer Shaldon Ferris reports on the official statement by Vicky Tauli-Copruz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, concerning the threat of the Dakota Access Pipeline to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.

UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Vicky Tauli-Corpuz discusses the challenges faced by Indigenous peoples in protecting their claim to ancestral lands in the face of government-sanctioned landgrabbing in the name of conservation.

Music: Melodies of Nepal, by classical Instrumental band Sur Sudha

Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, discusses with IRR Producer Shaldon Ferris the high rate of imprisonment of Australian Aboriginal individuals that she observed in her official visit to Australia. Disproportionate criminalization of Aboriginal people is evidence of systemic, structural inequality in Australia.

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Song: "YAWLICHALLAY" by Luis Cisneros. Used with permission.

Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, says she has found an inadequate process of consultation with Indigenous communities on the part of the national government during her visit to Honduras, where she was recently invited for a working visit to comment on a draft of a law regulating Free, Prior and Informed Consent. Indigenous Hondurans do not feel that they were adequately consulted on the content of the law. Further, the law does not meet widely accepted international standards of F.P.I.C.

Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, visited several states in Mexico to report on progress made in areas of Indigenous rights since her predecessor's trip to the country in 2003. Though the Mexican government has not fulfilled the majority of recommendations made by the former UNSR, Tauli-Corpuz notes the empowerment of autonomous municipalities since 2003 as an improvement over previous years.

This year's theme for conversations at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues was "Indigenous Peoples Collective Rights to Lands and Resources". Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (Igorot Kankanaey, Philippines), UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Issues, says that the theme connects to many important conversations happening now in the world, including the threat that extractive industries pose to resources located on Indigenous-owned territories.

Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, conducted an official visit to Guatemala, a country where 61 to 65% of population identify as Indigenous. Shaldon Ferris interviewed her about her visit.

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"Whispers" by Ziibiwan. Used with permission.
Indigenous Rights Radio Intro track features "Burn your Village to the Ground" by @a-tribe-called-red. Used with permission.

A short update on current events from around the world on the topic of Indigenous Rights.

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Shaldon Ferris (KhoiSan)

En este spot te damos a conocer la Declaración sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas. Esta declaración creó compromiso de los Estados en el cumplimiento de los Derechos Indígenas. Por ello te invitamos a conocerla y promoverla en tu radio comunitaria.

Quieres conocer qué es el Foro Permanente para las Cuestiones Indígenas de Naciones Unidas y en qué nos beneficia como Pueblos Indígenas? En este Spot te lo explicamos.

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En este spot te contamos sobre los reportes y recomendaciones que cada año los 16 miembros del Foro Permanente para las cuestiones  Indígenas de la ONU hacen a los Estados al rededor del mundo y a las agencias de Naciones Unidas sobre la situación de  Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas. 

Las recomendaciones del Foro Permanente para cuestiones Indígenas de la ONU no son una forma de forzar a los gobiernos para que cumplan con ellas, pero desde nuestras radios y diversos medios como Pueblos Indígenas necesitamos promover y circular las recomendaciones para que nuestros gobiernos sepan que no estamos solos y que tenemos atención y  apoyo por parte de este cuerpo de Naciones Unidas.

Sabes quién es la Relatora Especial sobre Derechos de Pueblos Indígenas de la ONU, y cuál es su papel dentro de Naciones Unidas? En este Spot te lo contamos, además te damos su contacto para que le informes si algo no va bien en tu comunidad en el buen ejercicio de tus Derechos Indígenas.
indigenous@ohchr.org 

Sabías que la Relatora Especial sobre Derecho de los Pueblos Indígenas puede visitar nuestro país para conocer de cerca la situación de nuestros Derechos Indígenas y usar su reporte para hacernos escuchar delante nuestros Estados? Escucha este Spot donde te damos mayores detalles.

Luego que la Relatora Especial sobre Derecho de los Pueblos Indígenas ha visitado nuestro país podemos dar seguimiento a su visita y recomendaciones brindadas a nuestros gobiernos, en este Spot te diremos cómo.

El Mecanismo de Experto sobre Derechos de Pueblos Indígenas? No sabes cuál es su función? Escucha y comparte este Spot donde te contamos su papel en la Defensa de los Derechos Indígenas.