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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
Today’s program provides the keynote address by Eriel Tchekwie Deranger of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, at the American Public Health Association 2017 annual meeting. Eriel Tchekwie Deranger is the executive director of Indigenous Climate Action and a member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) of Northern Alberta, Canada. Starting with tar sands development opposition, she has become an international spokesperson for indigenous people opposing corporate pollution and demanding formal representation at climate talks. As of 2022, there is still no indigenous formal representation at the Conference of the Parties table (“the parties” refers to the 197 nations that agreed to a new environmental pact, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, at a meeting in 1992). In 2021 indigenous organizers from 150 countries managed to get indigenous rights mentioned inside the agreement, instead of just the preamble.
Credits: Recorded and produced by Melinda Tuhus; Women’s International News Gathering Service (WINGS) series producer, Frieda Werden.
WINGS has been covering he global women’s movement and related issues, such as environment, for community radios around the world since 1986. Contact: [email protected]
