Being Indigenous Maasai with Disabilities
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.
Changing Perceptions of IPs with Disabilities
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.
Inclusion of Indigenous Peoples with Disabilities
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.
Indigenous with Disabilities: A Dual Identity
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 On Historical Trauma
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 On Community Conversations
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 On Unity 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 On Successes At The UNPFII 2015
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.
UNSR Interview On Dakota Access Pipeline - Oct. 2016
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.
Credits:
Interview with Vicky Tauli-Corpuz
Production by Shaldon Ferris
Music:
"Danum", by Salidumayy DKK
UNSR Official Statement On Dakota Access Pipeline - Sept. 2016
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.
Vicky Tauli-Corpuz On Conservation's Impacts On Indigenous Peoples
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
UN Special Rapporteur Vicky Tauli-Corpuz on the Criminalization of Australian Aboriginal Peoples
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.
MUSIC
Song: "YAWLICHALLAY" by Luis Cisneros. Used with permission.
UN Special Rapporteur Vicky Tauli-Corpuz Finds Inadequate Consultation Process in Honduras
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.
Special Rapporteur Visit To Mexico
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.
UN Special Rapporteur Victoria Tauli-Corpuz on UNPFII Theme 2018
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.
Special Rapporteur Visit to Guatemala
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.
MUSIC
"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.
News Bulletin CS September
A short update on current events from around the world on the topic of Indigenous Rights.
PRODUCTION
Shaldon Ferris (KhoiSan)
Comunicado De Prensa
En enero 2016, representantes de radios comunitarias Indígenas de Centroamérica se reunieron en Gunayala, Panamá para ser partes del Primer Encuentro Centroamericano de Radios Comunitarias Indígenas. Aquí les presentamos el Comunicado de Prensa, en voz de Elsa Chiquito Rucal, directora de una radio comunitaria indígena en Guatemala y miembro del consejo Regional de la Red Centroamericana de Radios Comunitarias Indígenas, la cual resultado de este primer encuentro.
Red Centroamericano De Radios Comunitarias Indigenas
En Enero 2016 Para operativizar el cumplimiento de lo acordado en Primer encuentro Centroamericano de Radios Comunitarias Indígenas se conformó el Consejo Regional de la Red, integrado por un representante de cada país. A su vez Guatemala, Nicaragua y Honduras fueron electos consejo ejecutivo por un periodo de dos años, como garantes de agilizar la dinámica de Red.
Mujeres En Medios De Comunicacion
En Enero 2016 miembros de radios comunitarias Indígenas de Centroamérica se juntaron en Guna-Yala, Panamá para formar el Primer Encuentro Centroamericano de Radios Comunitarias.
Carlos Morales de Costa Rica habla de la necesidad de involucrar a las mujeres en la radio comunitaria, destacando que las mujeres tienen derecho a ocupar espacios dentro de las radios.
Nota que es la responsabilidad de los hombres instar que las compañeras tengan su lugar, para que sea realidad.
Mujer Comunidadora Asume Retos Para Participar
En Enero 2016 miembros de radios comunitarias Indígenas de centroamérica se juntaron en Guna-Yala, Panamá para formar el Primer Encuentro Centroamericano de Radios Comunitarias.
Llamamiento Para Apoyo A Radios Comunitarias
En Enero 2016 miembros de radios comunitarias Indígenas de centroamérica se juntaron en Guna-Yala, Panamá para formar el Primer Encuentro Centroamericano de Radios Comunitarias.
Compromiso De Gobernador Panameño A Radios Comunitarias
En Enero 2016 miembros de radios comunitarias Indígenas de centroamérica se juntaron en Guna-Yala, Panamá para formar el Primer Encuentro Centroamericano de Radios Comunitarias.
Metas De Una Mujer Guna En Medios De Comunicacion
En Enero 2016 miembros de radios comunitarias Indígenas de centroamérica se juntaron en Gunayala, Panamá para formar el Primer Encuentro Centroamericano de Radios Comunitarias.
Lauriz Díaz, miembro del Consejo Regional de Radios Comunitarias y representante del gobierno Guna. Ella explica varias estrategias para cumplir la expansión de participación de la mujer en las radios comunitarias la primera la autodeterminación de la mujer “tu tienes que tener tu autoridad de mujer”, esa es la estrategia destaca Díaz. Producido con la música de Warmigu.
Los Jovenes Son Los Presentes Y El Futuro
En Enero 2016 miembros de radios comunitarias Indígenas de centroamérica se juntaron en Gunayala, Panamá para formar el Primer Encuentro Centroamericano de Radios Comunitarias.