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).
By Jess Cherofsky, with research was conducted in partnership with the RCA's Human Rights Investigations Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Reconocimiento de tierra
Reconocemos que nuestra sede está en la tierra de Massachusetts, en Cambridge, MA, y agradecemos a los administradores Indígenas pasados, actuales y futuros de este territorio.