Cultural Survival condemns the use of excessive force and violence in the aftermath of the forced resignation of Bolivian President Evo Morales (Aymara), the country’s first Indigenous president, after 10 days of public protest.

Morales fled to Mexico after allegations of election fraud from the Organization of American States. Subsequent protests have so far left 23 people dead, more than 100 injured and multiple incarcerated in different parts of the country.

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Associação Xavante Warã (Xavante Warã Association, AXW) released the following statement on November 3, 2019.  Em português

By Antonio Moreno

It has been just over a month since I joined Cultural Survival. I just returned from an inspiring trip to Guatemala, meeting with our staff, our partners, and local Maya Indigenous leaders and wanted to share some reflections with you. 

Por Sócrates Vásquez García

“Desde la Patagonia hasta Alaska, los comunicadores Indígenas nos hemos autoconvocado como comunicadores Indígenas para decirle al mundo que estamos aquí en, existimos como pueblos.”

By Sócrates Vásquez García

"From Patagonia to Alaska, Indigenous communicators have called ourselves as Indigenous communicators to tell the world that we are here, we exist as Peoples."

The Global Investigative Journalism Conference is an event that is held every other year at different venues around the world, organized by Global Investigative Journalism Network, Netzwerk Recherche, and Interlink Academy. This year’s event, on September 26-29, 2019,  saw over 1700 journalists descend upon the port city of Hamburg, Germany.

By John McPhaul

The Agrarian Court of the II Judicial Circuit of San José, Costa Rica, recently revoked a sentence of Judge Jean Carlo Céspedes Mora of Buenos Aires of Puntarenas in which he ordered the eviction of Indigenous people who had recovered land within the Brörán Indigenous territory, according to website CulturaCR.net.

El Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación Racial (CERD), publicó el pasado 19 de septiembre de este año y en su calidad de  organismo de derechos humanos de la ONU, que supervisa la adhesión del Estado a la Convención sobre la Eliminación de Todas las Formas de Discriminación Racial, sus observaciones finales sobre el historial de los

Statement from Indigenous Peoples on Climate Summit

Cultural Survival supports youth around the globe who are striking this September 20, 2019 in a call for urgent action for the climate.  

As one of its 5 core demands, the Youth Climate Strike Coalition urges Respect of Indigenous Land and Sovereignty. They call on legislators to:

Allegedly criminally set fires have destroyed nearly all of Xavante Indigenous Territory Areões, about 219,000 hectares, in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, according to a report by Globo News, a leading mainstream media source in Brazil. Areões is an Indigenous Territory, home to about 1,500 Xavante who are now facing the catastrophic impacts from the fires.