The 5th AMARC Asia-Pacific Regional Conference in Bangkok united over 150 participants from 18 countries to celebrate the power of community radio. During the four-day conference, participants shared experiences and lessons culminating in the Bangkok Declaration, which urges collaboration among community radio, regional bodies, and the UN, highlighting the role of community radio in achieving democracy and realizing Indigenous rights.

Today, we celebrate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Every day, we honor the sovereignty, richness, and beauty of Indigenous Peoples, languages, and lifeways.

Summit Highlights a Rights-Based Approach and Centers Indigenous Peoples' Priorities and Solutions 

By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff) 

By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)

By Edson Krenak (Krenak, CS Staff)

Reposted from un-spbf.org

Authors: 
Bryan Bixcul – Cultural Survival/SIRGE Coalition
Jan Morrill – Earthworks/SIRGE Coalition
Prem Singh Tharu – Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)
Edson Krenak – Cultural Survival/SIRGE Coalition
Yblin Román Escobar – SIRGE Coalition
 

Submitted by Cultural Survival

EMRIP Item 5: Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Chair of the UNPFII and the Board of Trustees of the UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples and members of the United Nations Treaty Bodies on UNDRIP implementation

Esteemed Special Rapporteur, distinguished delegates, and esteemed colleagues and parentes, 

Aimee Roberson is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and also of Chickasaw, Scottish, Irish, and English descent. She is a lifelong student of Mother Earth’s wisdom and holds a bachelor’s degree in geology and a master’s in conservation biology. She is committed to reciprocity and community, and works with people to ensure that the social-ecological systems upon which we all depend continue to flourish.