Tag: Teslyn Barkman

Friday, May 15th 2026 - 03:43 UTC
Falklands, artists film on local talent and works

Watch our new short film exploring arts and culture in the Falkland Islands. Released alongside the latest exhibition by celebrated Ceramicist and Islander Graham Bound, the film features local artists sharing their work and speaking about how the Falklands insp them.
Wednesday, October 22nd 2025 - 07:38 UTC
Falklands’ elections in December, “Why should you vote”

The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly is pleased to share the second video produced by the Falkland Islands Film Company ahead of the 2025 Falklands General Election, 11 December, with support from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Secretariat's Small Branches Regional Initiative Fund.
Monday, May 26th 2025 - 13:57 UTC
Falkland Islands reaffirm self-determination at UN decolonization seminar

At a United Nations seminar focused on decolonization in the Pacific, Falkland Islands lawmaker Teslyn Barkman appealed for international recognition of the Islands' right to self-determination, pushing back against Argentina's territorial claims.
Monday, October 14th 2024 - 08:21 UTC
Falklands lawmakers check progress of new sports facility

The Falklands National Sports Council, NSC, was very pleased to welcome MLAs Teslyn Barkman, Pete Biggs, Jack Ford, Mark Pollard, Leona Roberts, and Gavin Short to the new sports facility for an update on progress.
Thursday, June 27th 2024 - 20:39 UTC
Falklands MLAs in US and Canada, including “moving the dial at C24” on self determination

The Falklands team has ended its successful tour and contacts in Canada, following on a very busy June in the US holding meetings with members of the US Congress, State Department, and NGOs, plus the annual farce of the United Nations Special Decolonization Committee, or C24, where its members, many of them with governments in open violation of the UN charter principles, particularly when it comes to human rights and peoples' rights, have the time to openly support Argentina's claim over the Falkland Islands.
Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 10:59 UTC
Falklands tells Decolonization Committee C24, “Our voice is all that matters”

By MLA Teslyn Barkman

The Falklands people are not the UK officials that have administered the Islands. However, Argentina don’t accept this, and requested again to be our colonial masters at the UN C24-decolonisation committee. MLA Short and I attended the UN meeting of the “question of the Falklands” on Tuesday 18th June to point to the obvious - Our voice is all that matters.
Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 10:57 UTC
“Requesting UK and Argentina talk bilaterally about Falklands future is entirely colonial,” MLA Teslyn Barkman

A group of elected assembly members from the Falkland Islands presented an address to the United Nations Special Committee on the situation regarding the implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples.
Thursday, June 13th 2024 - 10:55 UTC
MLAs Barkman and Short ready to defend Falklands' self determination at UN C24 meeting

A team from the Falklands Islands is currently in the United States, more precisely in Washington for a series of political contacts in Congress and the State Department.
Wednesday, May 22nd 2024 - 10:59 UTC
MLAs to UN C24 conference: “Falklands have a lot to give the world in fisheries and science”

The Falkland Islands lawmakers, MLA Teslyn Barkman and MLA Gavin Short will represent the Falkland Islands at the upcoming United Nations Decolonization Committee or C-24 conference in New York at the beginning of June.
Thursday, May 16th 2024 - 21:58 UTC
A forum on decolonization calling on two other countries to decide the future of the Falklands people?

The speech was delivered in Venezuela by Teslyn Barkman Falkland Islands MLA at the Caribbean Regional Seminar on the Implementation of the Fourth International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism, (14/16 May), ahead of the Special Committee on Decolonization later this year.