Rebecca Sommer
Rebecca Sommer is a German artist, journalist, photographer, documentary filmmaker, and human rights activist. She is the representative for the Indigenous Department USA of the Society for Threatened Peoples 1, an international NGO in special consultative status to the United Nations (ECOSOC), and in participatory status with the Council of Europe. She founded Earth Peoples 2, a global circle of indigenous peoples working together to promote the NATURAL and human rights of indigenous peoples.
Rebecca Sommer earns her living as an artist, with works in beauty, fashion, print and film, and has worked as the editor-at-large for magazines such as Scene, Madison, and Spirit while living in Germany, India, Great Britain, Brazil, South Africa and the USA.
Recent work as a filmmaker includes "The United Nations and Indigenous Peoples Vol. 1", "Eliminated Without Bleeding"4, "Hunted Like Animals"5, "A Day in My Village" 6 and "Work-in-ProgresS - UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples" 7.
"The United Nations and Indigenous Peoples Vol. 1" won the 2007 New York Festivals International Film & Video Award..
External links
- RebeccaSommer.org - personal website featuring video clips, news, and other information AbOUT her work.
- EarthPeoples.org