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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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