Role: The Summer Bazaar Artist Liaison is a temporary job opportunity in July 2018 to coordinate the approximately 10-15 Indigenous artists participating in Cultural Survival's Indigenous Artisan Institute and to provide support to Cultural Survival staff during the two summer Bazaars. The person in this role will be the primary liaison with the artists and will be in regular communication with Bazaar staff.
Radio is one of the most accessible platforms for Indigenous Peoples and, in many countries, this has resulted in an active community radio movement. Small, community-based radio stations may seem like an outdated mode of communication, but for many Indigenous Peoples the low cost of radio makes it the ideal tool for defending their cultures, lands, natural resources, and rights.
Acontece essa semana a 17ª Sessão do Fórum Permanente sobre Questões Indígenas das Nações Unidas em Nova Iorque. Representando o povo A’uwẽ-Xavante por meio da Associação Xavante Wara, o lider Hiparidi Top’tiro teve a oportunidade de informar o Fórum sobre a grave situação vivida pelo seu povo.
With support from Cultural Survival, Tribal Link Foundation and generous donors, Xavante leader, Hiparidi Top’tiro of the Xavante Warã Association, spoke at the 17th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues about the grave problems A’uwẽ-Xavante people are confronting as a result of massive soy agribusiness in central Brazil. In meetings facilitated by Cultural Survival, Top’tiro also met with various government missions to the UN including the Netherlands, Norway, and Germany – all major soy importing nations that indicate conc
By Laura Hobson Herlihy