Each year, on August 9th, the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples is observed to raise awareness and protect Indigenous Rights.
This year the theme of the commemoration is The role of Indigenous women in the preservation and transmission of Traditional Knowledge.

This audio narrates the experience of the primitive Asur Adivasi community living on the hills of Netarhat, Jharkhand (India) during the COVID pandemic and how they survived without proper government information and health support.
Produced by Asur Adivasi Radio.

This audio in English language talks about the small business that had a bad impact during Covid-19 and asks the audience to support local businesses.
Produced by Adivasi Lives Matter.

This audio is in the English language, bursting the myth that Covid-19 can't transmit in hot and humid weather, telling the truth about it and asking the listeners to wash their hands and maintain social distance.
Produced by Adivasi Lives Matter.

In this podcast, we speak to Craige Beckett from Indigenous Youth Xchange who tells us about a new project that aims to teach the youth alternative skills to grow their own food.
Produced by Shaldon Ferris (Khoisan)
Voices: Craige Beckett (San)
Music:  "LIBRES Y VIVAS"  by MARE ADVETENCIA,  used with permission.
"Burn your village to the ground", by The Halluci Nation, used with permission.

In this interview, John Cloete from Radio West Coast  interviews Naomi Cloete, a small-scale fisher from Paternoster, and they talk about the reality of the poverty that fishermen live in, they talk also about how generation after generation of fisher-boys become fishermen because there simply is no other life for them on these shores. Naomi also tells us how fisher folk has to suffer, partly because of policy but more worryingly by the national silence that shrouds the Indigenous Peoples of the Western cape coastlines.

Mariia Savvina (Sakha) is an independent artist, fashion designer, and creator of the fashion brand o5o who is originally from Yakutsk, Sakha Republic. In this conversation, Mariia tells us about her training and journey as an artist and her experiences showing her collections at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia. She also talks about her practice of melding Sakha traditions with the contemporary and the importance this fusing has on both personal and professional levels.
Produced by Katya Yegorov-Crate.
Edited by Shaldon Ferris(Khoisan)

A theatrical drama group and youth from Sandrift in the Richtersveld area of the Northern Cape staged a theatrical demonstration outside Alexander Bay on June 25th, 2022.

The demonstration was intended to show how indigenous communities oppose a proposed Special Economic Zone for the Boegoebaai Green Hydrogen Project.

The Global news bulletin for this month contains news from around the world on the topic of Indigenous Rights.  In this edition, we have news from Indonesia, Taiwan, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, and more countries.

Many Indigenous children were once cared for by their families and communities according to their cultural practices, laws, and traditions. It was the parents' responsibility to raise the children since children were seen as gifts from the creator. Families were closely involved in raising the child.