To mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples on August 9th, representatives of 50 community radio stations from all over Guatemala came to the Centro Historico in Guatemala City to participate in a two-day conference on the rights of Indigenous Peoples to freedom of expression through radio. The goal of the conference was to bring pressure on congress to legalize community radio in Guatemala by approving the Bill 4087, the Law for Community Media.
Reina is from the town of San Mateo, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. She has been working at the Doble Via radio station since it opened, for just about a year.
August 9 is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, and Cultural Survival joins the world in recognizing and honoring of the strength, resilience, dignity, and pride of Indigenous Peoples around the world.
From July 11 to 15, 2011, more than 100 Indigenous nations, peoples, and organizations met with representatives from 34 countries in Geneva at the fourth meeting of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The mechanism was created in 2007 by the UN Human Rights Council to provide the council with expert advice on the state of Indigenous Peoples’ rights.
Members of the U.S. Congress heard testimony from Indigenous Peoples of Africa at a Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hearing on May 12. The hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., was co-chaired by Rep. James McGovern and Rep Frank Wolf. It followed on a similar hearing last year for Indigenous Peoples of Latin America.
Samburu families who are suing Kenya’s former president Daniel arap Moi celebrated a small but significant victory in a Kenyan courtroom May 12, when their lawyers persuaded a high court judge to allow them more time to prepare their case.
In a historic ruling in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ rights, Colombia’s Constitutional Court halted three industrial projects for not properly consulting affected Indigenous communities nor gaining their consent. The three projects are construction of a highway, an electric power line, and a mine.
Les Malezer, a member of Cultural Survival's board of directors, has just been elected the first co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, which aims to unite all of the country's Indigenous populations and represent their interests in the nation as a whole.
Reconocimiento de tierra
Reconocemos que nuestra sede está en la tierra de Massachusetts, en Cambridge, MA, y agradecemos a los administradores Indígenas pasados, actuales y futuros de este territorio.
