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Join us for an afternoon talk with Minga's Eliana Elias and Cultural Survival's Mark Camp
Indigenous Community Radio and Indigenous Rights
On World Radio Day (February 13) hear about how community radio is being used in the Peruvian Amazon to promote Indigenous women's health, rights, and gender equality. Learn about the challenges Indigenous communities face in Guatemala and Panama in exercising their right to freedom of expression and community controlled media, rights guaranteed by Article 16 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Monday, February 13, 2017
2:00-4:00pm Cultural Survival 2067 Massachusetts Ave. 2nd floor (Arthur D. Nelson Conference Room)
Cambridge, MA 02140
Minga Peru strengthens leaders, organizations, and social networks representing the most marginalized communities of Latin America and the Caribbean to collaboratively build social justice with gender equity, environmental stewardship and cultural identity.
Minga Peru was founded in 1998 in the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon. Although the Loreto region is rich in indigenous cultures and has the greatest rainforest biodiversity in the world, it is one of the most inaccessible and neglected regions of Peru. Women and families struggle with very high rates of poverty, HIV/AIDS, domestic abuse, and social injustice. The inhabitants of Loreto are also resilient leaders, committed to their communities and their land. From the beginning, we established and maintained open communications with the poor and marginalized communities of Loreto. Minga's radio show Bienvenida Salud ("Welcome Health") and its active engagement with community members has helped create Minga's unique model for social change.
ELIANA ELIAS is CO-FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of Minga.
Eliana Elias brings over twenty years of experience working in the Peruvian Amazon and other rural areas to design and implement strategies that combine communications, women's leadership and sustainable community development. She has consulted with hundreds of NGOs and over 100 indigenous groups involved with education, health, conservation and community development. MARK CAMP is DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of Cultural Survival. From 1993 to 1998, Mark ran Joint Effort, a small fair trade company that imported crafts from Maya cooperatives in Guatemala. He studied history and non-profit management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the Harvard University Extension School. He came to Cultural Survival in 1998 and served as Membership Coordinator and Editor of Cultural Survival Voices before assuming his current duties in 2004. Mark has served as Acting Executive Director twice (in 2003 and in 2010). Since 2009, he has served on the Board of Directors of Sobrevivencia Cultural, Cultural Survival's sister organization in Guatemala.
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