By John McPhaul
Por Allen Perez
Cada cuatro años, Las Naciones Unidas examina el comportamiento de sus Estados miembros en asuntos de derechos humanos a través del Examen Periódico Universal. Cultural Survival (CS) colabora con dicho ente en materia de los derechos humanos de los Pueblos Indígenas.
By Nati Garcia
On October 19-20, 2018, Kankuamo Peoples Authority headed by the Mamos, General Elders Council, Town Council, leaders and members of the communities gathered in Makumake, Kankuamo Territory, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, to release the following statement to the national and international public after the burning of a Kankurwa (ceremonial house) in Atanquez, in events that took place on the night of October 18, 2018:
My name is Ali Gonzalez from the Indigenous Boruca community in the south of Costa Rica. I am a one of Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Community Media Youth Fellows. I had the pleasant experience of participating in the Second Central America Community Radio Network Meeting held in Panajachel, Guatemala.
Organización de Mujeres Indígenas Unidas por la Biodiversidad de Panamá (OMIUB) or “Indigenous Women United for Biodiversity,” is a group founded in 2011 that works to strengthen, develop, and revive Indigenous knowledge in Panama. In 2017 Cultural Survival’s Keepers of the Earth Fund awarded the organization a grant to strengthen the governance of Kuna, Embera, and Wounaan People by conducting workshops on the newly established law of Consultation and Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC).
By Patricia Miranda Wattimena
Reposted from World Policy with permission from author.
By Richard Arghiris. Reposted from Intercontinental Cry.
"They have destroyed our Indigenous crops and the government has done nothing to stop it,” said Elivardo Membache, an Emberá Cacique who is fighting to protect his ancestral lands from illegal settlers.
MINI SUBVENCIÓN DE ACOMPAÑAMIENTO PARA LA SOLICITUD DE UNA CONCESIÓN DE USO SOCIAL INDÍGENA
Cultural Survival se complace en anunciar su primera Convocatoria de propuestas para el Proyecto de Mini Subvenciones de Acompañamiento para la Solicitud de una Concesión de Uso Social Indígena de Radiodifusión Sonora (Radio) dirigida a radios comunitarias, organizaciones Indígenas o comunidades y pueblos Indígenas.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.