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[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Media plays vital role in empowering indigenous rights – UN experts

Wednesday, 08 August 2012 17:06

In light of this year’s theme “Indigenous Media, Empowering Indigenous
Voices”, the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the
Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, James Anaya, have
stressed the vital role that media can play in the respect for, and the
promotion and protection of, indigenous peoples’ rights.

The right of indigenous peoples to establish their own media in their own
languages is a key right in the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples (article 16). The Expert Mechanism, in its 2012 study on indigenous
peoples’ languages and cultures, highlights that media can be an essential
tool for the revitalisation of indigenous languages, especially in the
education of indigenous children.

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