Lucy Mulenkei

 

 

 

Indigenous Nation: Maasai
Nation State: Kenya
Language(s): English
UN Region: Africa

LUCY MULENKEI is a Maasai from Kenya who began as a broadcast Journalist in the Government-run radio for 17 years on issues of the environment and development. Her programming focused on environment problems in the rural Kenya and the East African Region.

Lucy also runs the Indigenous Information Network (IIN) in Kenya, which publishes the popular grassroots publication, Nomadic News, focusing on environmental issues and successes affecting pastoralists and hunter-gatherers in Africa. IIN also disseminates environmental information related to the indigenous movement worldwide, and organizes workshops in Nairobi to provide a platform for African indigenous people to share and discuss information and to clarify their positions with respect to important international events like the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

For the past six years Lucy has been working both as a chair and coordinator of the African Indigenous Women’s Organization in the East African Region. She has coordinated the training and capacity building for indigenous rural nomadic pastoralist and hunter gatherers on environment and sustainable development with a main focus on biodiversity conservation and traditional knowledge.

Lucy has worked with more than 100 different grassroots organizations in East Africa. She has also networked worldwide with other grassroots women in Latin America, Canada and Asia respectively. At the international level she has tried to connect the grassroots women especially those from her region with the international agendas. Lucy also chairs the Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity Network.

Source: Women's Global Green Action Network accessed April 5, 2007




Dialogue Between:

Ida Nicolaisen, Denmark
and
Lucy Mulenkei, Maasai, Kenya

This conversation takes us on a journey which touches upon the issues of land, tradition and cultures, as well as their concerns confronting pastoralists within the confines of States who like people to be settled, as Ida reminds us. The problematic qualification of "who are Indigenous Peoples" also arises in this dialogue.

Transcript


Additional links for Lucy Mulenkei on this site:




Indigenous Peoples and Health; A Briefing Paper For The Permanent Forum On Indigenous Issues, May 1, 2002

Indigenous Peoples and Health; A Briefing Paper For The Permanent Forum On Indigenous Issues, May 1, 2002 Annex 4

Second Session United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, May, 2003 - Interview
[Listen to audio - Original Language and English]
Lucy Mulenkei expresses hope of Indigenous Peoples that establishment of Permanent Forum will make governments take notice of issues

Second Session United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, May, 2003 - Interview on women's issues with Njuma Ekundanayo, Expert Member, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, May, 2003
[Listen to audio - Original Language and English (translated by Lucy Mulenkei)




Dialogue Between Nations - Politics of Inclusion - Women's Issues
"Today the voice of Indigenous Women in the Sudan is loud in the search for peace. Women have seen too much human suffering and this has made them address their issues as equal partners from different political, cultural and religious backgrounds..."


Additional resources:

Protecting Knowledge: Traditional Resource Rights in the New Millennium UBC First Nations House of Learning and Union of BC Indian Chiefs February 23 - 26, 2000

Protecting Knowledge: Traditional Resource Rights in the New Millennium Session Transcripts and Audio




Special Report on Selected Side Events at the WSSD
Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August - 4 September 2002

Results of the indigenous peoples' summit on sustainable development Presented by TEBTEBBA Foundation (Indigenous Peoples' International Center for Policy Research and Education)

Lucy Mulenkei, Indigenous Information Network, noted that over 300 participants attended the Kimberley Conference to produce a clear declaration, and called upon governments to take note of the indigenous peoples' concerns and foster change. Mulenkei expressed hope for full recognition of indigenous rights within the next 10 years.




Fourth Session of the PFII: Indigenous women's participation at the 49th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, 28 February to 11 March 2005
Activities and Outcomes


 


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