El Fondo Guardianes de la Tierra (KOEF por sus siglas en inglés) es un fondo liderado por Indígenas, diseñado para apoyar los proyectos de promoción y desarrollo comunitario de los Pueblos Indígenas. Desde 2017, KOEF ha apoyado 177 proyectos en 35 países por un total de $764,317.

September 13, 2021, marks fourteen years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). 

By Laura Harvey (CS intern)

Angélica Ayala (Nahua)

In 2012, during the administrations of former Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa and Governor Graco Ramírez Abreu, a roadwork project sponsored by the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT) was approved. The project will widen a 20 kilometer highway through El Tepozteco National Park and the Ajusco-Chichinautzin Biologic Corridor into a four-lane roadway. These areas comprise an area protected by a presidential decree.

By Luna Negra* (Amuzga)

Women from the communities of Rebolledo, Los Arquitos, and Río Minas in San Pablo Cuatro Venados, Oaxaca, have organized to defend their land from a Canadian mining project installed by Arco Resources Corporation. The Zapotec women in these communities shared the story of their organization, fight, and work to continue living and planting on their lands, which were once defended by their ancestors and have always been communal.