Water Is Life
A position Paper On: Indigenous Women’s Role In Water Governance In Asia Water governance is one of the pressing issues for Indigenous communities in Asia with emergence of neoliberal …
Indigenous Knowledge
Voices of Indigenous Woman: Ms. Wanitchaya Kantayoung
Indigenous Women are the key practitioners, innovators, and holders of Indigenous Knowledge relating to their traditional livelihoods. They play a crucial role in preserving indigenous seeds, maintaining food security, and …
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The Classroom of Life [English]
In the Indigenous Karen village of Huay Ee Khang, in the mountainous north of Thailand, all life starts in the forest: When a baby is born, its umbilical cord is placed in a bamboo container and hung on a healthy fruit tree.
The Classroom of Life [Thai]
ในหมู่บ้านชนเผ่าพื้นเมืองชาวปกาเกอะญอบ้านห้วยอีค่าง ซึ่งตั้งอยู่บนภูเขาทางตอนเหนือของประเทศไทย ทุกชีวิตเริ่มต้นในป่า เมื่อทารกคลอดออกมา สายสะดือของพวกเขาจะถูกใส่ไว้ในกระบอกไม้ไผ่และผูกไว้บนต้นไม้ผลที่มีความแข็งแรง
The Classroom Of Life [Karen]
Noraeri is the first woman to head the village and the only female leader in the whole district of Mae Wang, located in the province of Chiang Mai. She belongs to the Karen Indigenous Peoples, which include a great variety of ethnic groups spread across Myanmar and Thailand.
Indigenous Women’s Voices in their Indigenous Language
Karen Indigenous Women’s Group members of Mae Yod Village from Northern Thailand articulates their forest voices in their indigenous language.
Knowledge is Wealth Not Money
The Law-wer [Lua] community living in the Mae La Noi District of the Maehongsong Province does not measure wealth with money but cotton cultivation and the abundance it provides to the community through the production of cotton fabric woven and dyed with natural pigments.
The community elders hold crucial knowledge of medicinal herbs still used today. For example, in postpartum healing.
“Land Tenure Security is the Foundation for Resilient and Sustainable Food Systems”-A Webinar on Indigenous Women as Global Game Changers
It has been widely acknowledged that the world’s dominant food systems are unsustainable: as key drivers of climate change, they generate adverse environmental, socio-economic, and health impacts on the entire …
CELEBRATING AND AMPLIFYING HER STORIES: INDIGENOUS WOMEN, ANCESTRAL WISDOM
Millions of Indigenous Peoples in Asia live in remote areas in the mountains, hills, plains, river basins, forests, and coastal areas. The homes of Indigenous Peoples overlap with the most …
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Celebrating and Amplifying Her Stories through Indigenous Food Systems
Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP), Indigenous Knowledge and Peoples of Asia (IKPA), Global Hub on Indigenous Food Systems, International Land Coalition (ILC)-Asia, and the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC) …
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