New EU Legislation Represents a Higher Risk for Indigenous Communities

The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, the European Union’s new, watered-down, proposed law, aims to improve business regulations but fails to adequately consider Indigenous Peoples. Its language is not strong enough and its standards are unclear, lacking specific measures to protect these rights effectively. The EU needs to start viewing the rights of Indigenous Peoples as vital components of environmental and social policies, ensuring they are fully integrated and prioritized. Read more. 

Manitoba’s Camp Morningstar Continues Its Fight Against Silica Sand Mining on Sacred Indigenous Lands

Even though Camp Morningstar’s final appeal was denied, allowing Canadian Premium Sand to continue destroying the sacred lands of Hollow Water First Nation, Camp Morningstar is ramping up its fight to pressure the Province of Manitoba to implement Free, Prior and Informed Consent before transition mineral exploration threatens more First Nations’ lands on Treaty 5 Territory. Read more. 

Looking Ahead: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights at CBD COP16 in Cali, Colombia

The President of the Republic of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has announced that the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16) will be held in Cali, Colombia, the capital of the Colombian Pacific, from October 21-November 1, 2024. In a presidential address, Petro emphasized that this conference will be a "Meeting of the world in Colombia [to] discuss the fundamental question for humanity today: how to preserve life on the planet in all its natural and human diversity."  Read more.  

Cultural Survival and Partners Bring Indigenous Rights Violations in Mexico to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

In February 2024, Cultural Survival and partners, Tsilinkalli: Ediciones de la Casa Sonora and Tsilinkalli Radio, submitted a joint alternative stakeholder report on the situation of Indigenous rights in Mexico for the 112th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which will take place in Geneva from April 8-29, 2024. Read more. 

World Social Forum Echoes with Indigenous Voices: "Another World is Possible, but Not Without Us"

The 16th World Social Forum, held under the banner "Another World is Possible," concluded on February 19, 2024, with a resounding message that Indigenous voices cannot be silenced in the fight for global justice and sustainability. While the five-day conference, the first of its kind to be hosted in Nepal, tackled a spectrum of social issues, a distinct theme emerged: the urgent need to address the unique struggles and aspirations of Indigenous communities worldwide. Read more. 

Inter-American Court of Human Rights Ruling Demands Recognition of Indigenous Community Radio

As time goes by, communications evolve. Facebook, Instagram, X, WhatsApp, are some of the platforms that, second by second, minute by minute, interconnect millions of people around the world, bringing the borders of countries closer. However, these new technologies require the purchase of data, making their use dependent on the market and excluding the vast majority of the population who cannot afford them. Read more. En español. 

"The word is embedded in everything and can heal many things in the soul": Martín Tonalmeyotl (Náhuatl poet)

Martín Tonalmeyotl (Náhuatl) grew up in Atzacoaloya, Chilapa de Álvarez, Guerrero, México, where he took care of the family's animals and planted grains and vegetables in the afternoons after school. Read more.  En español. 

Celia Nichim: A Story of Struggle and Resilience

My name is Celia Flor Díaz Pérez, and I am a Maya Tsotsil woman from Los Altos de Chiapas, of the Chamo' culture. I will be 35 years old in April. I introduce myself as Celia Nichim (which means flower in Tsotsil) in some places that do not require my legal name since my surname is part of the colonial imposition. Read more.  En español. 

The Importance of Indigenous Oral Traditional Storytelling: Part 2

Storytelling has always played a significant part in my life, and when I started in academia, I knew it was an area I would be in close alignment with. Researching Indigenous epistemology furthered my desire to better understand storytelling as a vehicle for conveying knowledge. There are multiple threads connecting Indigenous worldviews, but one can trace a cohesive line back to stories.  Read more.

Indigenous Youth Fellow Spotlight:

Youth Fellows Working to Bring Back Their Languages and Cultures

Through Cultural Survival's Indigenous Youth Fellowship Program, we support the leadership of Indigenous youth in advocating and striving for new ways of safeguarding their lands, cultures, and languages. Here, we uplift three youth fellowship projects related to the revitalization of languages and cultures.  Read more.  

Indigenous Community Media Fund Grant Partner Spotlight:

Progress Radio’s Community Awareness Program Makes Significant Impact in Northeast Nigeria

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. 

Keepers of the Earth Fund Grant Partner Spotlight:

Asociación Zonal Indígena de Cabildos y Autoridades Tradicionales de la Chorrera Amazonas (AZICATCH) (Uitoto, Bora, Okaina y Muinane), Colombia
 

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