Webinar: Protecting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact
The Group on Earth Observations Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (GEO EDI) Subgroup are excited to invite you to the next webinar in the GEO EDI webinar series. In fact, this is a joint effort by the GEO EDI and the GEO Indigenous Alliance to celebrate the UN International Day Of The World’s Indigenous Peoples 2024 on August 9th.
The theme for 2024 is Protecting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact
Below follows a description of the webinar that we encourage you to both attend and invite your networks to join and share too.
What
Please, join the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Subgroup of the GEO Programme Board in our 2024 webinar series and be inspired by engaging stories from around the world that celebrate gender, indigenous people and youth perspectives in the Earth observation community. These webinars will be held as the world is recognizing women, indigenous people, and youth on their United Nations designated International Days.
The theme of the 2024 International Day of The World’s Indigenous Peoples is Protecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact. In this webinar GEO EDI and GEO Indigenous Alliance invite representatives from the GEO Indigenous Alliance community of indigenous peoples to share their perspectives and tell stories about working on protecting the rights of indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation and intitial contact and the use of Earth observations.
Why now?
Celebrating the UN International Day of The World’s Indigenous Peoples is an welcomed way to create awareness of both the GEO Indigenous Alliance and the importance of being inclusive also with respect to Earth observation data and knowledge sharing. It is exciting to learn about the perspectives of the indigenous peoples and especially their deep knowledge about sustainable management of natural resources, ecosystems and biodiversity. It is important to understand and respect the special challenges faces by the indigenous communities.
Who is it for?
This webinar aims to reach the indigenous peoples of all ages, and all individuals within Global Earth observation community, scientists, data experts, innovation community, trainers, educators, researchers, applied scientists and policy makers.
Please, register for the event!
SPEAKERS:
Brijlal Chaudhari is a member of the Tharu nation from the foothills of the Himalayas (Nepal) where the Rhinos and the Elephants used to roam freely. Raised in a multi-generational Tharu family, he carries his ancestors’ oral teachings of relationships, leadership, compassion, storytelling, diplomacy, reciprocity, customary law, governance, Indigenous economics, and resource management. He is an Indigenous Peoples’ rights activist with over 15 years of experience leading social change programs and organizations. He is the founding president of Global Home for Indigenous Peoples (an association based in France). He represents the Indigenous Peoples of Asia region as a steering committee member of the Coalition on Indigenous Peoples Food Systems. He is a consultant for the Global Alliance of Future of Food and Tenure Facility. He has a BA in Economics, African Studies, and a master’s degree in Public Administration.
I am Ana Amaguaña, an indigenous woman from the Kichwa-Otavalo people of Ecuador. From 2022 to February 2024, I accompanied the work of Land is Life in the coordination of the secretary of the International Working Group of Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact. GTI-PIACI. Currently, I am assuming functions as PIACI Program Coordinator in Land is Life. I aspire to contribute to the formulation of effective actions in favor of the defense, protection, and promotion of the rights of Indigenous Peoples with emphasis on Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial contact.
Tania Eulalia Martinez Cruz is an Ëyuujk indigenous interdisciplinary researcher from Oaxaca, Mexico. She is an associate researcher at the Free University of Brussels working on Indigenous Peoples’ water, food and knowledge systems. She uses her research to advocate for the respect of Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge systems and their meaningful participation in food and water-related policy processes using a rights-based approach. She is also an independent consultant on Indigenous Peoples’ issues, the food-water-energy nexus and social inclusion. Currently, she is a focal point for Latin America for the Coalition on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems. She believes in the role of education to change lives positively and does advocacy work on the right and access to education for Indigenous girls and women in STEM.
MODERATOR:
James Rattling Leaf, Sr., is founding member of the GEO Indigenous Alliance. As the Principal at the Wolakota Lab, LLC, he serves as a guide to organizations to work more effectively with Indigenous peoples for a more equitable world. He specializes in developing programs that utilize the interface between Indigenous Peoples’ Traditional Knowledge and Western Science. He has over 25 years experience serving as a cross cultural/broker resource to federal government, higher education institutions and non-profits to developing and maintaining positive on-going working relationships with federally and non-federally recognized Indian tribes, Tribal College and Universities, and Tribal Communities. He was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and is an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe.