Participants after being made aware about Indigenous Human Rights
Click to Enlarge

Awareness about ILO 169 and UNDRIP in Remote places of Sankhuwasabha

Nepal Kirat Kulung Bhasa Sanskriti Utthan Sangh (Association of Nepal Kirat Kulung Language and Cultural Development-ANKKLACD) has just organized awareness programme about the rights of the indigenous Kulung peoples commenced on 26-29 April 2009. The rights to land, forest, natural resources and rights to self-identity and rights to self-determination including Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) were discussed among the Kulung community in Bala, Tamku and Mangtewa Village Deveopment Committees in Sankuwasabha district.

The programme was jointly facilitated by Mr. Narendra Kulung, the Secretary of Kulung Cultural Department and Mr. Dilipsingh Chhapdulu Kulung, the Vice-president of ANKKLACD.

In the programme the manual of International Labour Organizations Convention NO. 169 and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) were referred as the key instruments for the advocating the rights of indigenous peoples around the world.