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February 2024 Enewsletter
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** Automakers “Abysmal” on Indigenous Rights Risk Due Diligence According to Updated Supply Chains Report
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Lack of Indigenous Rights Risk due diligence is still pervasive in the automotive industry reports the second edition of the Lead the Charge Leaderboard ([link removed]) , which assessed 18 of the world’s leading automakers to evaluate their efforts “to eliminate emissions, environmental harms, and human rights violations from their supply chains.” According to the report released on February 27, 2024, automakers are ignoring risks and potential harm to Indigenous Peoples in their supply chains and are failing to take action to scope for Indigenous Rights Risk and uphold the rights of Indigenous Peoples. Read more. ([link removed])
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** State of Guatemala Pays Reparations to Three Indigenous Community Radio Stations
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More than two years after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled in Indigenous Maya Kaqchikel Peoples of Sumpango vs. Guatemala that the State of Guatemala must pay reparations to Indigenous community radio stations, the State is finally set to comply. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** Malaysia Under Scrutiny: UN Review Highlights Indigenous Rights Concerns
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Malaysia's human rights record underwent scrutiny on January 25, 2024, at the 45th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group of the Human Rights Council. Read more ([link removed]) .
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** Ending Gender Violence: The Moosehide Campaign’s Journey to Create Change
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As awareness around gender-based violence continues to grow, First Nations across Canada are working with schools and other nonprofit organizations to eliminate violence against Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirits, who are disproportionately affected by violence in Canada and many other places around the world. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Belize Must Obtain Maya Peoples’ Free, Prior and Informed Consent in Drafting the Maya Customary Land Policy
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Cultural Survival expresses its solidarity with the Maya Peoples, the Maya Leaders Alliance, and the Toledo Alcaldes Association, in southern Belize in demanding that the State of Belize comply with the 2015 Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruling and respect Indigenous rights to land and Free, Prior and Informed Consent in every matter that affects Maya Peoples. Read more. ([link removed])
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** From Pine Ridge to Palestine: Indigenous Solidarity in the Ceasefire Movement - An Interview with Nick Tilsen
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Interview with Nick Tilsen, President and CEO of the Indigenous-led advocacy and grantmaking organization NDN Collective, about his personal story—being both Oglala Lakota and Jewish—as well as organizational philosophy of support for the Palestinian people in this brutal conflict. Read more. ([link removed])
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** STAMPed Out in New York: The Fight to Defend The Big Woods
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The Western New York Science and Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park (STAMP) project is a proposed 1,263-acre industrial “mega-site” located in Alabama, NY, next to the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, and surrounded by the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge, Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, and John White Wildlife Management Area. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Dismissal of Land Defender Sergio Rojas’ Murder Case in Costa Rica Causes Distress and Indignation
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Despite its reputation as a country with effective policies to guarantee human rights, Costa Rica continues to violate these and the collective rights of Indigenous Peoples. On March 18, 2019, Sergio Rojas Ortíz (Bribri), Indigenous land defender and leader in Salitre, was killed for his struggle in the recovery of Indigenous territories. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** Reverberation of the Doctrine of Discovery on the Shinnecock Peoples
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I come from a long line of wisdom keepers of their generations. Although I am enrolled in the Shinnecock Nation, I am a living descendant of the people who lived throughout Long Island and New England and whose laws predate the Doctrine of Discovery. After a lifetime of working with my Elders and teachers learning my lineage and oral history, I recognize my inherent obligation to preserve the culture, land, and identity we have lived for over 500 years. Read more ([link removed])
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** Second Exchange on Experiences About Free, Prior and Informed Consent Highlights Indigenous Mobilization Efforts in the Yucatán
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“We realize that all Indigenous Peoples have the same issues, the same sufferings. What does that mean? That in all our countries our collective rights and individual rights as people and as Peoples are being violated,” Arthur Francis Cruz Ochoa (Huitoto Murui), Indigenous land defender from the northeast Amazon region. Read more ([link removed]) . En español. ([link removed])
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** New Guide Helps Indigenous Leaders Define FPIC Priorities and Protocols
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Indigenous Peoples’ right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) provides a framework for the considerations and processes required when investors and governments seek to develop projects that may affect Indigenous communities, lands, territories, and resources. Read more ([link removed]) . (Guide in English ([link removed]) , En Español, ([link removed]) Em Português ([link removed]) , En Français ([link removed]) , На русском ([link removed])
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** Securing Indigenous Peoples' Right to Self-Determination: A Guide on Free, Prior and Informed Consent
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** Indigenous-led Conservation: Hope for the Future of the Planet
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International Mother Language Day 2024 ([link removed])

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Cultural Survival Global News Bulletin February 2024 ([link removed]) [link removed]

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¿Por qué hay mucho interés en la explotación minera en Guatemala? ([link removed])

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La importancia de la comunicación propia ([link removed])

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Noticiero regional sobre Pueblos Indígenas, febrero 2024 ([link removed])

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** Indigenous Youth Fellow Spotlight:
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** Taking Care of Our Mother Languages: Wapichana Indigenous Literature and Inclusion Project
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We would like to introduce you to one of our Youth Fellows working to strengthen Indigenous languages. Jama Wapichana (Wapichana) is a 26-year-old woman from Brazil, currently residing in the state of Roraima. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Indigenous Community Media Fund Grant Partner Spotlight:
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** Progress Radio’s Community Awareness Program Makes Significant Impact in Northeast Nigeria
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Progress Radio 97.3 FM Gombe’s community awareness program on the coronavirus epidemic has had a significant impact on the lives of people in northeast Nigeria. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Keepers of the Earth Fund Grant Partner Spotlight:
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** Lands And Livelihoods: Reflections from Keepers of the Earth Fund Grant Partner Exchange
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The theme of lands and livelihoods brought us together as Keepers of the Earth Fund grant partners from January 15 to 17, 2024, in Siguatepeque, Honduras, thanks to the invitation of Cultural Survival. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine

47-4 Indigenous-led Conservation: Hope for the Future of the Planet ([link removed])
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This issue of the Cultural Survival Quarterly is dedicated to uplifting a few of the many stories of Indigenous-led stewardship and care of the Earth.


** ¡Cultural Survival Quarterly ahora está disponible en español!
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