By Georges Dougnon (Dogon, CS Staff)

Rural women play a crucial role in the Sahel region, particularly in Mali. According to 2021 data, women represent 50.4% of Mali's total population, with 52% living in rural areas.

The daily life of rural women is one of courage and sacrifice. Many who grew up in the village know this reality, that of the woman known as “la villageoise.” She knows neither washing machines nor running water. She lives in a world where getting water to drink is a daily struggle. Her life is one of courage and dedication.

En el Día Mundial de la Radio (13 de febrero), Cultural Survival celebra 10 años de amplificar las voces de los Pueblos Indígenas a través del Programa de Radio de Derechos Indígena (RDI). 

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Después de más de cuatro años de encarcelamiento arbitrario por su defensa de los derechos humanos y derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas, Kenia Hernández, lideresa y abogada amuzga de Xochistlahuaca, Guerrero, México, se encuentra ahora ante la posibilidad de ser liberada.

Comunicado de prensa de la

By Lucas Kasosi (Maasai, CS Intern)

If you ever find yourself in a remote Samburu village at night, you might stumble upon a scene that feels straight out of a centuries-old tradition women huddled around a bonfire, their voices rising and falling in conversation as the fire flickers against their beadwork and shukas.

Por Brandi Morin (Cree/Iroquois). Fotos por Ian Willms

En todo el mundo, las explotaciones mineras han agravado la pobreza de las comunidades indígenas y destruido sus medios de vida tradicionales, dejando tras de sí una devastación medioambiental.

By Hartman Deetz (Mashpee Wampanoag) 

By Human Rights Watch and ACLU

(Washington D.C., February 6, 2025) – The United States government’s decision to permit Lithium Americas to mine at Thacker Pass in Nevada violated Indigenous people’s rights, Human Rights Watch and the ACLU said in a report released today. The 18,000-acre mining project is under construction and will extract lithium from one of the world’s largest known deposits.

By Press Release by Native American Rights Fund

(WASHINGTON D.C., 2/2/2025)—A coalition of Tribal organizations, representing Tribal Nations and their citizens and communities, is calling on the Administration to ensure that recent executive actions do not undermine the unique sovereign political status of Tribal Nations as sovereign nations with which the federal government has trust and treaty obligations, or disrupt federal funding that flows from those relationships for essential Tribal programs.

Cultural Survival strongly condemns the violent attack on Indigenous students and Indigenous Peoples’ rights activists’ protests on January 15, 2025, against the removal of the term "Adivasi" (Indigenous in Bangla) from school textbooks in Bangladesh.