KOEF Grant Partner Spotlight: Sain Tus Center
By Verónica Aguilar (Mixtec / CS Staff)
Dear Sonia,
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (CS Staff)
Following a successful advocacy campaign by the Indigenous Community Radio Network (ICRN), a grant partner of Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Community Media Fund, along with other media organizations in Nepal, the Nepali government has decided to hold back its plans to present new media legislation to the federal Parliament for approval.
Reposted with permission from WAAC.
Indigenous media practitioners on April 29, 2021, underscored the need to galvanize a movement that would ensure that Indigenous peoples worldwide can exercise their right to “establish their own media and have access to all forms of non-Indigenous media without discrimination” as stated in Article 16 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
SDG goal 16.7 seeks to ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels. We will hear from Indigenous leaders working to strengthen traditional forms of Indigenous governance and decision-making, especially as it relates to the implementation of Free, Prior and Informed Consent, the governance of resources, land rights + tenure, to understand models for improving implementation of SDG 16.7 for Indigenous Peoples.
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.