Multistakehoder Consultations
UNPFII recommendations -> Establishment of Working Group -> Literature review -> Methodologies and survey instruments -> Call for inputs and data collection -> Multistakeholder consultations -> Strategic recommendations
In 2023, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) underlined the need for the examination of national policies, practices, and funding programmes on Indigenous media in its report to the Economic and Social Council (Ref.: , paragraph 10). The Permanent Forum mandated UNESCO in partnership with relevant UN entities and Indigenous Peoples, to conduct a study on Indigenous Peoples and the media and present their findings at its annual session in 2025.
To respond to the important call for action and to prepare a study by April 2025, UNESCO organized a series of consultations with Indigenous Peoples, UN system entities, the media sector, and civil society:
- 18 April 2023, in New York (USA), the multistakeholder event 鈥淐reating an enabling environment for free and independent Indigenous Community Media鈥 organized on the margins of the 22nd session of the UNPFII (鈥鈥- )
- 19 July 2023 in Geneva (Switzerland), the multistakeholder event 鈥淟aunch of a thematic study on Indigenous Peoples and the Media, organized on the margins to the 16th session of EMRIP ( - )
- 18 April 2023 in New York (USA), the multistakeholder event 鈥淔ollow up to the UNPFII recommendations: Indigenous Peoples and the Media鈥, organized on the margins of the 22nd session of the UNPFII ( -
- 25 July 2024 in Oklahoma City (USA), the multistakeholder event 鈥淢edia for Indigenous Peoples: towards a global response for the implementation of Article 16 Media of the UNDRIP鈥 organized on the margins of the Indigenous Media Conference (
- 26 and 27 November 2024 in Paris (France), the Expert Meeting and Media Partnership Forum, organized at UNESCO Headquarters ( 鈥- Article)