On Tuesday, August 9 at 09:30, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center and the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience will hold a briefing on the occasion of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
Speakers:
1. Eskender Bariiev – Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Head of the Public Council under the SEFC, member of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people
2. Olena Bohdan – Head of the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience (SEFC)
3. Olena Arabadzhi – a representative of the Karaite people, a member of the board of the public organization Melitopol National-Cultural Karaite Society Dzhamaat (online participation)
4. Syres Boliaen – iniazor of the Erzia people, head of the Erzia society in Ukraine Erzäń val (Erzia word)
5. Viacheslav Lombroso – representative of the Krymchak people, Deputy Chairman of the International Public Organization Foundation for Research and Support of the Indigenous Peoples of Crimea (online participation)
6. Refat Chubarov – Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people
7. Pavel Suliandziga – representative of the Udege indigenous people of Russia
8. Dmitry Berezhkov – representative of the Itelmen indigenous people of Russia
9. Tetiana Podvorniak – Communications Manager of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center
Every year on August 9, International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples is celebrated. A special date was approved by a resolution of the UN General Assembly in 1994 in order for the world community to remember the need to preserve the unique cultures of indigenous peoples.
In 2021, Ukraine adopted the Law of Ukraine "On the Indigenous Peoples of Ukraine", which recognized three indigenous peoples: Crimean Tatars, Karaites and Krymchaks. The cultures of these three peoples were formed on the territory of Ukraine and they do not have their own state formation outside of our state.
The first invasion of Ukraine in 2014 created significant risks for the preservation of the unique cultures of the indigenous peoples of Ukraine, since they formed and lived compactly mainly in Crimea. A full-scale invasion in 2022 struck again, as Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia and a number of other territories that became centers of cultural activity for the indigenous peoples of Ukraine fell into a zone of temporary occupation by Russian occupants.
So, within the framework of the event, the speakers will inform about the history of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, about the situation of the indigenous peoples of Ukraine in the conditions of a full-scale invasion, and also present visual and informational content prepared by the Crimean Tatar Resource Center for this day as part of the #LIBERATECRIMEA information campaign.
The broadcast of the event will also be available on the Facebook page of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center – https://www.facebook.com/
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We remind you that earlier the Crimean Tatar Resource Center presented a new information campaign #LIBERATECRIMEA, which is designed to raise the level of awareness of the population of Ukraine about the situation in the occupied Crimea.
More details about this campaign can be found on the landing page – https://www.ctrcenter.org/
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Telegram: https://t.me/LIBERATECRIMEA