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Forum discussion on the right to Free, Prior, Informed Consent. Part of a series of 13 programs, produced by Shamantha Mani, K'taka Commnity Radio, India

Forum discussion on the right to Free, Prior, Informed Consent. Part of a series of 13 programs, produced by Shamantha Mani, K'taka Commnity Radio, India

El Derecho al Consentimiento Libre, Previo e Informado corresponde a todas las personas indígenas.

Luis Victor, representante peruano de la Coordinadora Andina de Organizaciones Indígenas, comparte sus observaciones sobre el problema de los gobiernos de países latinoamericanos y empresas que promueven la extracción de recursos naturales y cómo afecta la soberanía y salud de los pueblos Indígenas.  

Albert Deterville, Expert Mechanism representative of Latin American and the Caribbean, discusses the Expert Mechanism, as created by the UN, on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the process in which they aid the monitoring of rights in regions around the world.

Rena Avetisyan discusses the challenges facing the people of Western Armenia, which is dealing with territorial issues with Turkey, as they move forward in trying to secure their rights to promote their culture, establish more schools and other things they are guaranteed by the UNDRIP.

Las comunidades indígenas no deben dejar al gobierno seguir violando su derecho al Consentimiento Libre, Previo e Informado e destruyendo sus tierras.

Dr. Daphne Miller from the University of California tells us that Indigenous Peoples who eat the diets of their ancestors are immune to many chronic diseases.  Indigenous diets are also suited to local environments: farmers farm in a cycle, use different kinds of seeds, conserve water, engaging practices that are not only sustainable and organic but also regenerative.

Produced by Dev Kumar Sunuwar and Jagat Dong from Nepal, for Cultural Survival after attending the Indigenous Terra Madre conference held in November, 2015 in Meghalaya, North East India.

Researcher Elizabeth Hacker describes research about how Indigenous individuals create their own frameworks to define "well-being" to counter Western ideas of well-being. She found three important concepts for Indigenous well being are, Meeting basic material needs; social harmony and sense of belonging; and cultural identity. Dev and Elizabeth discuss examples from her research in India and Kenya.

Participants discuss what food sovereignty means for Indigenous Peoples. Speakers include Native American activist, and author Dr. Winona Laduke, and Dr. Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Global Coordinator of the ICCA Consortium, and David Strelneck, Senior Advisor at Ashoka Foundation.

Produced by Dev Kumar Sunuwar and Jagat Dong from Nepal, for Cultural Survival after attending the Indigenous Terra Madre conference held in November, 2015 in Meghalaya, North East India.

Interviewees discusses the main challenges to food security for a rising global population. Dhrupad Choudhury of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, argues that Indigenous farmers are doing important work to tackle challenges the world is facing today due to climate change. Indigenous farmers have the building blocks of stress tolerant crops, as well as sustainable agricultural practices because they are dependent only on the resources available to them.

Dr. Winona LaDuke describes her practices experimenting with various types of maize.

The Slow Food movement was founded in Italy in 1986 to promote an alternative to fast food.

Analee Johnson, Sami, of Sweden, says that the Slow Food movement believes that the food we produce should be good, clean, and fair. She gives an example of marketing Sami traditional food of Reindeer meat.

Bibhudutta Sahu, of the North East Slow Food & Agrobiodiversity Society explains that local food is always the best, because mother nature has been kind enough to provide us what we need.

Terra Madre means "Mother Earth" in Latin. The theme of the Indigenous Terra Madre conference was to celebrate the bio and cultural diversity that is the asset of Indigenous communities. The aim of this gathering is to share ideas, to come together, and be inspired or be warned, and to make people aware that our local food systems. It also seeks to build awareness that "the way we cooked in the past, and the wild plants around us are more important for our health than all the medicines we take.

Dayamani Barla, Indigenous tribal journalist and activist from Jharkland, India, discusses how Indigenous Peoples have been displaced from their traditional farming lands in the name of dams, mining and other development projects.

Produced by Dev Kumar Sunuwar and Jagat Dong from Nepal, for Cultural Survival after attending the Indigenous Terra Madre conference held in November, 2015 in Meghalaya, North East India.

स्वतंत्र पूर्वगामी एवं सूचित सहमति के अधिकार का अर्थ है कि इस्से पहले की सरकार स्वदेशी ज़मीन पर विकास परियोजनायो का प्रक्रिया शुरू करे, उन्हे उस ज़मीन के अधिकारी स्वदेशी जनता को अपने योजना के बारे में बताना आवश्यक होगा। इस तरह वे अपनी परियोजना के शुरू होने से पहले स्वदेशी लोगों की राय ले सकते हें।  

स्वतंत्र पूर्वगामी एवं सूचित सहमति हर स्वदेशी का जन्मसिद्ध अधिकार हें।

स्वदेशी समुदायों को सरकार को उनके स्वदेशी ज़मीनों पे अपना हक प्रभाव करके उनका नाश नही करने देना चाहिए। यह स्वदेशी अधिकार के खिलाफ हें।

Es necesario que las comunidades indígenas eligen líderes que estén comprometidos con la lucha de los pueblos y no con los intereses del gobierno.

यह बहुत महत्वपूर्ण है की स्वदेशी जनता ऐसे नेताओं का चुनाव करे जो सिर्फ़ सरकार के भले के बारे में न सोचके स्वदेशी हितों के बारे में भी सोचेंगे।

 संयुक्त राष्ट्र के अनुच्छेद 10 के मुताबिक कोई भी स्वदेशी समुदायों को ज़बरदस्ती उनके ज़मीन से नही हटा सकता।

 इससे पहले के कोई राज्य ऐसा कोई विधायी या प्रशासनिक कदम उठाए जो स्वदेशी जनता को प्रभावित करे, उन्हे स्थानीय लोगों की स्वतंत्र पूर्वगामी एवं सूचित सहमति लेनी होगी।

सरकार स्वदेशी जनता के स्वतंत्र पूर्वगामी एवं सूचित सहमति के बगैर उनके ज़मीनों पर कोई हानिकारक सामग्री नही रख सकती है. 

 सरकार स्वदेशी जनता के स्वतंत्र पूर्वगामी एवं सूचित सहमति के बगैर ऐसी कोई विकास परियोजना की मंज़ूरी नही दे सकती जो स्वदेशियों की ज़मीनों और साधनों  पर असर दे सकती है।

स्वदेशी लोगों के अधिकारों पर संयुक्त राष्ट्रा घोषणा पत्र एवं अन्य अंतरराष्ट्रीय यंत्र स्वतंत्र पूर्वगामी एवं सूचित सहमति को स्वदेशी जनता का अधिकार मानते है।

 स्वदेशी जनता के लिए स्वतंत्र पूर्वगामी एवं सूचित सहमति एक मौलिक, निहित, एवं अविच्छेद्य अधिकार है।