The draft Universal Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples states that First Nation Peoples have the 'right to the use of and access to all forms of mass media in their own languages'.
Some organisations proclaim such rights in their constitutions.
New Zealand's national organisation of Maori communicators, Te Manu Aute , for example, states that 'every culture has a right and a responsibility to present its own culture to its own people'. However, the current mainstream media models make Indigenous access difficult. This makes them inherently unequal as the resources tend to be concentrated at the centre rather than at the periphery. This ignores the crucial need for audiences living in rural and remote areas to exchange information with each other for the benefit of themselves and their communities. Examples from around the world suggest that participatory media models, which are local and decentralised, combined with regional and national media, are more effective as vehicles for a diversity of Indigenous communications.