Agencia Presentes is hosting a workshop on best journalistic practices regarding Indigenous women and the issue of land violence. The workshop will be held virtually, is free of charge, and requires prior registration. It consists of two three-hour virtual sessions.

Trainers:

Moira Millán, Elena Corvalán and Concepción Oviedo.

Addressed to:

Students, journalists, communicators, media editors from Argentina and Paraguay. 

Basic information

Dates: May 11 and 12

Schedule: 10 AM to 1 PM Argentina / 9 AM to 12 PM Paraguay

Registration closes: May 9, 2021

Participants will receive confirmation of their registration by May 10th. 

Goals:

• To contribute to the development of good journalistic practices for communicating indigenous issues from an intersectional gender perspective.  
• To offer tools for understanding approaches and concepts that reflect the worldviews of indigenous women.
• To create a space for exchange and knowledge building for the development of good communication practices. 
• That the participants be able to collaborate in making visible narratives about indigenous peoples and nations.  
• Systematize contributions to decolonize the communication of these coverages.  

Requirements

• Being a student of communication, journalism or social sciences, journalist, communicator, editor, whether as independent workers (freelancers) or linked to media or organizations.  
• Living in Argentina and Paraguay. 

How to apply

To apply, send an email to talleres@agenciapresentes.org completing this information:

NAME AND SURNAME: 

AGE: 

CELLULAR PHONE: 

CITY/TOWN: 

MEDIUM/ORGANIZATION:

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Participants will receive a registration confirmation email by May 10th.

Moira Millán

Weychafe Mapuche. She began her activism for the rights of her people in the 1990s. She is part of the Indigenous Women's Movement for Good Living. Millán has given lectures and seminars at various universities around the world. 

In 2012, she won the third edition of the DOCTV Latinoamérica Competition as co-writer of Pupila de mujer, mirada de la tierra (Pupil of a Woman, Gaze of the Earth), which led to the production of the documentary starring her and directed by Flor Copley. She contributed her text "Ausencia de la voz indígena" (Absence of the Indigenous Voice) to the collective book Ni una menos. Vivxs nos queremos (Not One Less. We Want to Live) (Milena Caserola, 2015), compiled by Karina Bidaseca. In 2018, she won the Intercontinental Cry International Journalism Competition on Indigenous Issues with her article "La maternidad mapuche en tiempos de Benetton" (Mapuche Motherhood in the Time of Benetton), later published by the magazine Incomindios.

Elena Corvalán

A journalist specializing in legal coverage, human rights, and Indigenous issues, she is also a nationally certified radio and television broadcaster (ISER). She has worked for various radio stations, newspapers, and television channels in Chaco, Corrientes, Catamarca, La Rioja, and Salta (Argentina). A former director of Radio Nacional Salta, she was editor-in-chief of the Corrientes newspaper El Litoral. She is a member of the community media committee in Salta and Jujuy and the network of rural newspapers in Argentina. She is a human rights activist with the Lucrecia Barquet Human Rights Association. She currently works as the Salta editor for the newspaper Página/12 and as a correspondent for Presentes. 

Concepción Oviedo González 

Feminist, journalist, organizational communicator, teacher, popular educator, and poet. She works on issues related to gender, feminism, human rights, historical memory, peasantry, and Indigenous issues at the national and international levels. She holds a degree in Communication Sciences from the UCA (Central American University) and a postgraduate degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Juiz de Fora/Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes, Brazil. She is a journalist at Latitud 25 and a communicator for CONAMURI (National Coordinator of Rural and Indigenous Women Workers' Organizations).

Presents Agency

A regional digital media outlet specializing in gender, diversity, and human rights. We address human rights violations against LGBTI+ people, human rights defenders, Indigenous women, and migrants from an intersectional perspective. We report on these struggles and seek to influence public opinion, combating discrimination and disinformation as ways to fight and transform society.