[E-rundbrief] Info 1708 - February 13 is World Radio Day - Community radios
Matthias Reichl
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Di Feb 13 23:28:00 CET 2018
E-Rundbrief - Info 1708 - Cultural Survival (USA): February 13 is
World Radio Day - the importance of community radio for the world's
Indigenous Peoples.
Bad Ischl, 13.2.2018
Begegnungszentrum für aktive Gewaltlosigkeit
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February 13 is World Radio Day
Did you know? February 13 is the 7th annual celebration of World Radio
Day as proclaimed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
On the first celebration of World Radio Day in 2012, former UN Special
Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples James Anaya emphasized
the importance of community radio for the world's Indigenous Peoples:
"Radio has been a fundamental means for Indigenous Peoples to maintain
their languages and to exercise and defend their rights. As recognized
by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
Article 16, 1. Indigenous peoples have the right to establish their
own media in their own languages and access to all other
non-Indigenous media without discrimination. 2. States shall take
effective measures to ensure that the media duly reflect indigenous
cultural diversity. States, without prejudice to ensuring full freedom
of expression, should encourage privately owned media to adequately
reflect indigenous cultural diversity."
Cultural Survival is working hard to make Article 16 a reality and
promoting Indigenous women's and youth leadership in radio. In 2017,
we funded 18 community radio projects in Guatemala, Honduras,
Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Nepal, and Kenya totaling over $166,000
through our Community Media Grants Project. These grants provided
opportunities for Indigenous radio stations to strengthen their
broadcast infrastructure, and offer training in journalism,
broadcasting, audio editing, and technical skills to community radio
journalists around the world. Also in 2017, 167 Indigenous women from
Central America and Nepal took part in trainings in radio production
and radio journalism organized by Cultural Survival.
We continue to support the approval of Bill 4087 in Guatemala. The
Community Media Law being considered by the Guatemalan Congress
revises the current telecommunications law to allow licenses for
non-profit community radio stations. The progress of this bill has
been slow, despite promises made by the Guatemalan Constitution and
the 1996 Peace Accords. This lack of access to non-profit community
radio broadcast licenses is in direct opposition to citizens' rights
to freedom of expression and Indigenous Peoples' right to operate
their own media in their own languages. Numerous recommendations from
the United Nations, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and
the Guatemalan Constitutional Court have urged the passage of revised
legislation to provide access to broadcast licenses for non-profit,
community radio stations.
In many parts of the world, despite the the risk of police raids, jail
time, threats and even death for community journalists, community
radio stations serve a vital function by distributing information
about important news and educational programming like emergency
disaster relief, voter registration, and public health campaigns. The
power of radio reaches even the most rural areas, providing Indigenous
communities with access to programming in their own languages and
serves as a voice that promotes their cultures, traditions, and belief
systems.
Because Knowledge is POWER
Cultural Survival continues to celebrate the power of radio by
representing diverse voices and perspectives in the Indigenous world
through our ever-expanding Indigenous Rights Radio audio program library.
1. New Directions in Indigenous Philanthropy - An Interview with Peter
Buffett
Peter Buffett is a co-president of the NoVo Foundation, which works to
foster a transformation from a world of domination and exploitation to
one of collaboration and partnership. As part of this work, NoVo
supports work in Indigenous communities across North America,
including community-led programs that focus on Indigenous girls and
women. Suzanne Benally (Navajo and Santa Clara Tewa) is the executive
director of Cultural Survival. Suzanne and Peter share a conversation
on reshaping and decolonizing the context of philanthropy to respond
to the traditions of giving in Indigenous communities.
2. The Power of a Walk - Seeking Recognition Through Resistance
Indigenous South Africans go on a yearly 400 mile pilgrimage to bring
awareness to ongoing violations of basic human rights of South
Africans, the withholding of remains and sacred items belonging to
Indigenous communities by museums, as well as to reconnect to the
earth and environment through the rigorous journey from coast to
coast. We spoke to two South African Indigenous rights activists to
hear their takes on how this tradition has shaped their activism.
3. World Radio Day - Radio Is Still The Voice of the Voiceless
February 13th is World Radio Day. Radio has contributed to the
resilience of Indigenous communities all over the world-- hear some of
these stories in this program commemorating the 6th annual World Radio
Day. Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Kumar/Sunuwar) and Suman Basnet, advocates of
community radio, bring us this retrospective from Nepal.
Through Cultural Survival's Indigenous Rights Radio program, our
Indigenous radio producers bring you the latest information on
Indigenous Peoples' rights and how they are being implemented around
the world.
Browse our full program library, featuring radio content in over 30
languages, at rights.culturalsurvival.org
Remember, our radio content is always free for you to download,
broadcast, modify, and distribute!...
Cultural Survival advocates for Indigenous Peoples' rights and
supports Indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultures and
political resilience since 1972. We envision a future that respects
and honors Indigenous Peoples' inherent rights and dynamic cultures,
deeply and richly interwoven in lands, languages, spiritual
traditions, and artistic expression, rooted in self-determination and
self-governance...
Advancing Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Cultures Worldwide, since 1972
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