Indigenous Media Zone: Voices at the UN

Shaldon Ferris (Khoisan), Cultural Survival Indigenous Civil Liberty Radio Organizer, that will likewise be a host in the IMZ, claims, “In a world where mainstream reporting easily misinterprets Indigenous worldviews, the IMZ uses a space where our stories are informed, by the individuals, for the people.”

Indigenous Media Zone at UN

The Indigenous Media Zone will be located in the UN Correspondents Association Room (3rd floor, Secretariat structure, S-310) from Monday to Friday, April 21-25, 2025, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm EST. On Monday, April 21, the IMZ will certainly be open 2pm – 6pm.

The Secretariat of the Permanent Forum (SPFII) and the Department of Global Communications (DGC), in partnership with Cultural Survival, are organizing the Indigenous Media Area during the very first week of the UNPFII, from April 21 to April 25, 2025. This will certainly enable Native media, reporters, and platforms an opportunity to report on the session through Aboriginal worldviews, perspectives, and languages, and arrange media events around the motif of the session – “Carrying out the United Nations Affirmation on the Civil Liberties of Aboriginal Peoples within United Nations Member States and the United Nations system, consisting of recognizing great techniques and addressing difficulties.”

It brings even more than 2,000 Native Peoples’ reps, Member States, UN agencies, and various other stakeholders with each other every year to talk about and cover Native issues. Hence, it offers an essential possibility for the media to report on the issues of Aboriginal Peoples throughout the globe.

Empowering Indigenous Voices

Glowing Sul González (Maya Kaqchikel), Social Survival Indigenous Rights Radio Program Manager, that will certainly be a host at the IMZ, says, “Indigenous neighborhood media utilize their power to bring and magnify the voices of communities to make noticeable their struggles, success, demands, and obstacles. The Media Area at the United Nations Permanent Forum aids Aboriginal neighborhood media and areas utilize this power.”

Further, in accordance with the International Years on Indigenous Languages, the Indigenous Media Zone will aim to urge the participation of Native media specialists in a variety of Native languages from different regions.

The Native Media Area will certainly supply Native media, journalists, and systems an operating room geared up with WiFi and a live stream of occasions occurring inside the United Nations during the 24th Session of the Permanent Forum. The area will certainly additionally permit interaction with non-Indigenous media. The Native Media Area will consist of: