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The Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission (SEITC) is a consortium of 15 sovereign Tribal Nations located in Southeast Alaska. SEITC has authority derived from Tribal governments, and each member Tribe has a formally designated representative. Established in 2014, SEITC was founded in order to protect and represent the cultural connection to the sacred rivers and waterways that are essential to sustaining local communities.
In June 2019, Dmitry Berezhkov and Pavel Sulyandziga authored a report titled, “Acts of intimidation, criminalization and other types of activities with the aim to prevent human rights work of Indigenous activists in Russia.” Berezhkov is the director at Arctic Consult, a database of documentation that Indigenous Peoples have compiled about their rights on land, resources, and self-determination.
El Caucus de Medios Indígenas y Comunicación es un grupo temático e informal de profesionales de medios Indígenas en el Foro Permanente de las Naciones Unidas para las Cuestiones Indígenas (UNPFII). Fue fundado por periodistas Indígenas en 2016, en la sede de la ONU, en la ciudad de Nueva York. Uno de los objetivos del Caucus fue crear una plataforma para periodistas y medios de comunicación Indígena de todo el mundo para unirlos y hacer un esfuerzo de defensa consolidado entre los medios de comunicación Indígena y profesionales de la comunicación en la ONU.
The Indigenous Media and Communication Caucus, a thematic and informal group of Indigenous media practitioners at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), was founded by Indigenous journalists in 2016, at UN Headquarters in New York City.
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar
On June 26, 2019, after over a month of continuous and massive movements by Indigenous Peoples, especially by Newar Peoples in Kathmandu Valley, the Nepalese government finally was forced to withdraw the Guthi Bill. This Bill would have permitted the regulation of customary land trusts in the National Assembly, the supreme legislative body of Nepal.
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Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.