Human rights-based approach: indigenous languages and traditional knowledge
Channel: InsightShare
Date: 10/04/2019

Participatory video offers a collaborative approach to facilitate self-representation and preserve indigenous languages and traditional knowledge. The result is a human rights-based approach that promotes the self-determination of indigenous communities as Living Cultures. 

The content of this webinar covers an introduction to current issues related to language, culture, land and human rights at a global scale. Some of the most pressing challenges faced by indigenous peoples involve cultural erosion, loss of traditional ecological knowledge and indigenous languages. Unfortunately, with language extinction comes the irrecoverable loss of cultural practices and traditional knowledge that could be essential for the survival of not only the speakers of those languages but for humankind.

This webinar was hosted by International Funders for Indigenous Peoples, Edge Funders Alliance, and Human Rights Funders Network in April 2019. Grace Hutchinson and Nick Lunch, Director and Co-Founder at InsightShare, share some examples about these topics and valuable lessons learned in practice over the last 20 years in Asia, Africa and the Americas. 

Last but not least, some key recommendations are outlined for funders and investors willing to engage more with indigenous peoples. Expect real examples about participatory video projects implemented in countries all over the world: Mexico, Tanzania, Cameroon, Kenya, India, Nepal, Kazakhstan, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia.

InsightShare’s Living Cultures initiative supports Indigenous Peoples to protect their territories, languages and cultures using Participatory Video. Living Cultures is a growing movement across Asia, Africa and the Americas uniting indigenous communities across borders; to celebrate, foster and protect their cultures with the principle of self-determination at its very heart. 

Find out more about InsightShare’s Living Cultures initiative here: https://insightshare.org/network/ 

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