In Asia, the ancestral lands of many Indigenous Peoples have been cut across national borders. Since anti-terror laws and counter insurgency laws were introduced, Indigenous Peoples have been suspected of being insurgents or terrorists, and have been barred from traveling across borders to visit relatives. There should be no borders for Indigenous Peoples as they have existed in those territories long before these nation States came into being.
Dev Kumar Sunuwar interviews Dr. Phrang Roy, Khasi indigenous and biodiversity activist, from Shillong, North-East India, on food security among Indigenous Peoples.
Indigenous communities often hold invaluable knowledge about medicinal plants and healing practices rooted in the environment and resources of their traditional homelands. Anoop Pushkaran Krishnamma is working with the Kerala Kani Community Welfare Trust in partnership with Indigenous communities in India to record and preserve this knowledge, allowing for healing practices to be utilized by future generations.
UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 2017, 16th Session
Week 1
Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Kumar/Sunuwar) asks Joan Carling, longtime advocate for Indigenous rights and former expert member to the UNPFII, how she assesses the implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in Asia.
MUSIC
"Remember Your Children," by Salidummay
Music from a seashell, recorded at the opening ceremony of the 16th UNPFII
UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Vicky Tauli-Corpuz discusses the challenges faced by Indigenous peoples in protecting their claim to ancestral lands in the face of government-sanctioned landgrabbing in the name of conservation.
Music: Melodies of Nepal, by classical Instrumental band Sur Sudha
Forum discussion on the right to Free, Prior, Informed Consent. Part of a series of 13 programs, produced by Shamantha Mani, K'taka Commnity Radio, India
Forum discussion on the right to Free, Prior, Informed Consent. Part of a series of 13 programs, produced by Shamantha Mani, K'taka Commnity Radio, India
इस अधिकार के निष्पक्ष आवेदन के लिए हमे यह ध्यान में रखना चाहिए: 1. किसी भी परियोजना के शुरुआत से पहले, क्षेत्रा के स्वदेशी जनता के संग परामर्श होना चाहिए। 2. अधिक समय का उपलब्ध करके यह सुनिश्चित करना चाहिए की समुदाय की जनता को कोई भी परियोजना के बारे मे संपूर्ण जानकारी दी जाए। 3. सारी जानकारी स्वदेशिओें की संस्कृति और परंपरागत तरीकों को ध्यान में रख कर वितरित करना चाहिए।स्वदेशिओें पर किसी भी तरह का ज़ोरदार प्रबाव नही डालना चाहिए। 5. लिए गये निर्णयों की सारी जानकारियों का दर्ज किया जाना चाहिए।
स्वतंत्र पूर्वगामी एवं सूचित सहमति के सही पालना की सुफलता के लिए यह बहुत महत्वपूर्ण है की सब लोग जाने के यह अधिकार हर स्वदेशी व्यक्ति पर उपयुक्त है। इस अधिकार की पालना हमे स्वदेशिओें और उनकी संस्कृति को सम्मान देते संग करनी चाहिए। इस के इलावा, सरकार के प्रतिनिधियों को स्वदेशी जनताऔर कंपनियों के सात मिलके ऐसे निर्णय लेने चाहिए जो स्वदेशी समुदायों को लाभ दे।
स्वतंत्र पूर्वगामी एवं सूचित सहमति के पालना को सुनिश्चित करने के लिए यह बहुत ज़रूरी है की ऐसे सामुदायिक बैठकों की व्यवस्था हो जिनके द्वारा लोगो को पता चले के उनके क्षेत्रा में क्या हो रहा है एवं क्या हो सकता है। इसके अलावा, इन बैठकों में लिए निर्णयों की पालना की गारंटी के लिए सारी परियोजनाओं की निगरानी की जानी चाहिए।
स्वतंत्र पूर्वगामी एवं सूचित सहमति का अधिकार स्पष्ट रूप से कहता है की सरकार लोगों को अपनी संगठन के तरीकें, सोच या निर्णयों में ज़बरदस्ती बदलावा नही डाल सकती। एवं, वे स्वदेशी जनता को गलत जानकारी नही दे सकते।
इन कानूनों का पालन करना बहुत ज़रूरी है क्योंकि यह हमारी वातावरण की रक्षा करतें है, स्वच्छ पानी और वायु कि उपलब्धि की गारंटी देते है, और वे यह सुनिसचीत करते है की कोई भी विकासात्मक परियोजनएँ स्वदेशी समुदायों का लाभ करेंगे।
स्वतंत्र पूर्वगामी एवं सूचित सहमति का अधिकार राष्ट्रीय और अंतरराष्ट्रीय कानूनों में लिखा है. अगर कोई परियोजना ज़मीनों के लिए हानिकारक प्रतीत हो, इन कानूनों का उपलब्ध इन ज़मीनों की रक्षा बे लिए किया जा सकता है।
स्वदेशी लोगों का विकास परियोजनाओं के वातावरण, समुदाय, एवं जनता पर संभावित प्रभावों के बारे में सूचना उपलब्ध होना बहुत ज़रूरी है। यह सूचना ऐसे माध्यम में उपलब्ध होनी चाहिए जो संभावित प्रभावित लोगों को समझ आए।
इससे पहले की कोई परियोजना कि शुरूवात हो, यह बहुत ज़रूरी है की स्वदेशी जनता के पास उस परियोजना के बारे में पर्याप्त सूचना उपलब्ध है। इस तरह, वे अपने राय देकर ज़रूरी परिवर्तन आरंभ कर सकेंगे।
स्वदेशी लोगों के अधिकारों पर संयुक्त राष्ट्रा घोषणा पत्र एवं अन्य अंतरराष्ट्रीय यंत्र स्वतंत्र पूर्वगामी एवं सूचित सहमति को स्वदेशी जनता का अधिकार मानते है।
सरकार स्वदेशी जनता के स्वतंत्र पूर्वगामी एवं सूचित सहमति के बगैर ऐसी कोई विकास परियोजना की मंज़ूरी नही दे सकती जो स्वदेशियों की ज़मीनों और साधनों पर असर दे सकती है।
इससे पहले के कोई राज्य ऐसा कोई विधायी या प्रशासनिक कदम उठाए जो स्वदेशी जनता को प्रभावित करे, उन्हे स्थानीय लोगों की स्वतंत्र पूर्वगामी एवं सूचित सहमति लेनी होगी।
स्वतंत्र पूर्वगामी एवं सूचित सहमति के अधिकार का अर्थ है कि इस्से पहले की सरकार स्वदेशी ज़मीन पर विकास परियोजनायो का प्रक्रिया शुरू करे, उन्हे उस ज़मीन के अधिकारी स्वदेशी जनता को अपने योजना के बारे में बताना आवश्यक होगा। इस तरह वे अपनी परियोजना के शुरू होने से पहले स्वदेशी लोगों की राय ले सकते हें।
Dayamani Barla, Indigenous tribal journalist and activist from Jharkland, India, discusses how Indigenous Peoples have been displaced from their traditional farming lands in the name of dams, mining and other development projects.
Produced by Dev Kumar Sunuwar and Jagat Dong from Nepal, for Cultural Survival after attending the Indigenous Terra Madre conference held in November, 2015 in Meghalaya, North East India.
Terra Madre means "Mother Earth" in Latin. The theme of the Indigenous Terra Madre conference was to celebrate the bio and cultural diversity that is the asset of Indigenous communities. The aim of this gathering is to share ideas, to come together, and be inspired or be warned, and to make people aware that our local food systems. It also seeks to build awareness that "the way we cooked in the past, and the wild plants around us are more important for our health than all the medicines we take.
The Slow Food movement was founded in Italy in 1986 to promote an alternative to fast food.
Analee Johnson, Sami, of Sweden, says that the Slow Food movement believes that the food we produce should be good, clean, and fair. She gives an example of marketing Sami traditional food of Reindeer meat.
Bibhudutta Sahu, of the North East Slow Food & Agrobiodiversity Society explains that local food is always the best, because mother nature has been kind enough to provide us what we need.
Participants discuss what food sovereignty means for Indigenous Peoples. Speakers include Native American activist, and author Dr. Winona Laduke, and Dr. Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Global Coordinator of the ICCA Consortium, and David Strelneck, Senior Advisor at Ashoka Foundation.
Produced by Dev Kumar Sunuwar and Jagat Dong from Nepal, for Cultural Survival after attending the Indigenous Terra Madre conference held in November, 2015 in Meghalaya, North East India.
Researcher Elizabeth Hacker describes research about how Indigenous individuals create their own frameworks to define "well-being" to counter Western ideas of well-being. She found three important concepts for Indigenous well being are, Meeting basic material needs; social harmony and sense of belonging; and cultural identity. Dev and Elizabeth discuss examples from her research in India and Kenya.
Forum discussion on the right to Free, Prior, Informed Consent. Part of a series of 13 programs, produced by Shamantha Mani, K'taka Commnity Radio, India
Forum discussion on the right to Free, Prior, Informed Consent. Part of a series of 13 programs, produced by Shamantha Mani, K'taka Commnity Radio, India
Forum discussion on the right to Free, Prior, Informed Consent.Part of a series of 13 programs, produced by Shamantha Mani, K'taka Commnity Radio, India
Forum discussion on the right to Free, Prior, Informed Consent. Part of a series of 13 programs, produced by Shamantha Mani, K'taka Commnity Radio, India
Forum discussion on the right to Free, Prior, Informed Consent. Part of a series of 13 programs, produced by Shamantha Mani, K'taka Commnity Radio, India
Forum discussion on the right to Free, Prior, Informed Consent. Part of a series of 13 programs, produced by Shamantha Mani, K'taka Commnity Radio, India
Forum discussion on the right to Free, Prior, Informed Consent. Part of a series of 13 programs, produced by Shamantha Mani, K'taka Commnity Radio, India
Forum discussion on the right to Free, Prior, Informed Consent. Part of a series of 13 programs, produced by Shamantha Mani, K'taka Commnity Radio, India
Forum discussion on the right to Free, Prior, Informed Consent. Part of a series of 13 programs, produced by Shamantha Mani, K'taka Commnity Radio, India
Forum discussion on the right to Free, Prior, Informed Consent. Part of a series of 13 programs, produced by Shamantha Mani, K'taka Commnity Radio, India
Forum discussion on the right to Free, Prior, Informed Consent. Part of a series of 13 programs, produced by Shamantha Mani, K'taka Commnity Radio, India
The right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent is stated in national and international laws, and can be applied in defence of lands and territories when there is a project that will cause irreparable damage.
In order for this right to be applied fairly, it should respect the following: 1. From the start of a project, there should be a consultation with the Indigenous People of the area; 2. There should be sufficient time devoted to ensuring that the community receive all of the information about the projects and its impacts; 3. Information should be distributed in accordance with the traditional ways of each community; 4. Any form of trying to influence the opinions of the people should be avoided; 5. All the details of decisions taken should be recorded.
In order to ensure that the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent is complied with, there should be community meetings which make people aware of what is happening and could happen in their area. In addition to this, projects must be supervised in order to ensure that decisions made in the community meetings, are implemented during the development project.
The right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent clearly states that the government should not force people to change their method of organisation, thinking, or decision making, nor spread inaccurate information to misinform Indigenous Peoples.
It is important to demand that this law is complied with because it protects the environment, guarantees clean water and air, and it is a mechanism of controlling development projects to ensure that truly benefit indigenous communities.
The negotiation process between the government and Indigenous Peoples should be free of threats, bribes or any manipulation by the government of the decisions of Indigenous Peoples.
The UN Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples along with other international instruments, recognises the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent as a right of Indigenous Peoples.
Join Cultural Survival as we interview Dayamani Barla, winner of the 2013 Ellen Lutz award for Indigenous Leadership, as we catch up with her at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, May 2013.