Human Rights Mechanisms

The first meeting of the Permanent Forum was held in May 2002, with yearly sessions thereafter. The Forum usually meets for 10 days each year, at the UN Headquarters in New York. According to the ECOSOC resolution E/2000/22, the Forum may also meet at the UN Office in Geneva or at such other place that it decides.
Cultural Survival attended the permanent forum in April 2023 and spoke to some of the delegates who attended.
Produced by Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Sunuwar)
Interviewee: Binalakshmi Nepram (Meitei)
Image: Cultural Survival

The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) is a high- level advisory body to the Economic and Social Council. The Forum was established on 28 July 2000 by resolution 2000/22, with the mandate to deal with indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights.
Cultural Survival attended the permanent forum in April 2023, and spoke to some of the delegates who attended.
Produced by Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Sunuwar)
Interviewee: Margaret Lokawa (Karimjong)
Image: Cultural Survival

The first meeting of the Permanent Forum was held in May 2002, with yearly sessions thereafter. The Forum usually meets for 10 days each year, at the UN Headquarters in New York. According to the ECOSOC resolution E/2000/22, the Forum may also meet at the UN Office in Geneva or at such other place that it decides.
Cultural Survival attended the permanent forum in April 2023, and spoke to some of the delegates who attended.
Produced by Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Sunuwar)
Interviewee: Daniel Kobei(Ogiek)
Image: Cultural Survival

The theme of the twenty-second session of the UNPFII will be “Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based approach”.
Cultural Survival attended the conference, and spoke to some of the delegates who attended.
Produced by Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Sunuwar)
Interviewee: Nathan Phillip(Omaha)
Image: Cultural Survival
Music "Remember Your Children", by Salidummay, used with permission.
"Burn your village to the ground", by The Halluci Nation, used with permission

In line with the International Decade on Indigenous Languages, the Indigenous Media Zone, a special platform set up for Indigenous Journalists, will aim to encourage the participation of Indigenous media practitioners in a wide variety of Indigenous languages from different regions.
Cultural Survival spoke to Holly Helton.
Produced by Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Sunuwar)
Interviewee: Holly Helton(Anishinaabe)
Image: Cultural Survival
Music "Remember Your Children", by Salidummay, used with permission.

The first meeting of the Permanent Forum was held in May 2002, with yearly sessions thereafter. The Forum usually meets for 10 days each year, at the UN Headquarters in New York. According to the ECOSOC resolution E/2000/22, the Forum may also meet at the UN Office in Geneva or at such other place that it decides.
Cultural Survival attended the permanent forum in April 2023, and spoke to some of the delegates who attended.
Produced by Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Sunuwar)
Interviewee: Naw Ei Ei Min
Image: Cultural Survival

In line with the International Decade on Indigenous Languages, the Indigenous Media Zone, a special platform set up for Indigenous Journalists, will aim to encourage the participation of Indigenous media practitioners in a wide variety of Indigenous languages from different regions.
Cultural Survival spoke to Naw Ei Ei Min, an Indigenous Woman from Myanmar. She is the founder and director of Promotion of Indigenous and Nature Together (POINT).
Produced by Avexnim Cojti (Maya K'iche) and Shaldon Ferris (Khoisan)
Interviewee: Naw Ei Ei Min (Karen)
Image: Twitter

The experience of being Indigenous and transgender brings about a variety of unique intersectional challenges. Growing up in Tana (Deanu), Sápmi land, Levi Sørum (Sámi) lived most of his life rooted in Sámi culture and language. He says he feels fortunate to have attended Sámi kindergarten and one year of Sámi elementary school, in light of Norway’s history of attempting to erase Sámi culture. Besides being Sámi, Sørum is a transgender man – although he considers the term transgender more of a physical description than an identity.
Produced by Camilla Lindschouw

Leya Hale lives in St. Paul. She was born and raised in the Los Angeles area. She is Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Navajo. She is a storyteller, a documentary filmmaker, and a producer with Twin Cities PBS (TPT), where she’s been working for the past eight years. Her  film, "Bring Her Home," addresses the epidemic of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women in the United States. 

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"Burn your village to the ground", by The Halluci Nation, used with permission