Indigenous Peoples Sue Bolsonaro at the Hague for Genocide and Get Ready for Mass Mobilizations in Brazil
On Monday, August 9, 2021, the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) filed a statement at the International Criminal Court to denounce the Bolsonaro government for genocide. Read more.
|
|
COVID-19 Vaccine Access in Guatemala: A Crisis within a Crisis
In Guatemala, inequalities have deepened and have become more evident due to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the lack of adequate and timely vaccine distribution. Read more.
|
|
Guatemala Is Far from Achieving the SDGs
"The big problem is that the government insists on hiding and embellishing the information ...", responded Lesly Ramírez, of the Center for Studies for Equity and Governance in Health and the Network of Community Defenders for the Right to Health, about the presentation on July 12, 2021, by the State of Guatemala at this year’s UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. Read more. En español
|
|
Falsely Imprisoned for Defending Sacred Waters: Bernardo Caal
Bernardo Caal is a well-known Q'eqchi' Maya leader and land and human rights defender in Guatemala who has been falsely imprisoned for three years. In 2020, he was officially declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. Caal is currently serving a seven-year sentence for crimes he did not commit. Read more.
|
|
Remembering a Hawaiian Hero: Haunani-Kay Trask and Her Fight for the Rights of Native Hawaiians
Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask (Kanaka Maoli), scholar, poet, and champion of sovereignty for Hawaiian Peoples died at the age of 71 on July 3, 2021, in Honolulu. Read more.
|
|
Cultural Survival Announces 2021 Indigenous Community Media Fund Grant Partners
Cultural Survival is pleased to announce the fifth round of grants from our Indigenous Community Media Fund. Eighteen grants were awarded in 11 countries (Bangladesh, Nepal, Namibia, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Kenya, and South Africa), totaling $104,748. Read more. En español.
|
|
Meet Our Indigenous Media Youth Fellows from Southern Mexico!
Cultural Survival is pleased to announce our Indigenous youth communicator fellowships in southern Mexico as part of the Indigenous Community Media Youth Fellowship Program. This second cohort of the 2021 Fellowship will support six youth proposals of alternative and community communication from collectives or individuals between the ages of 14 - 25 from southern Mexico. Meet our fellows! En español
|
|
|
This year’s International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples' theme was "Leaving no one Behind: Indigenous Peoples and the call for a social contract.” The term social contract in relation to Indigenous Peoples may be confusing as this has not yet been discussed much. In this radio program, Radio Program Producer, Dev Kumar Sunuwar explores what a new social contract means for Indigenous Peoples.
International Day for People of African Descent will be celebrated for the first time on August 31, 2021. Through this observance, the UN aims to promote the extraordinary contributions of the African diaspora around the world and to eliminate all forms of discrimination against people of African descent. Cultural activist Letitia Timas Petersen tells us the story of Franz Taaibosch, an Indigenous Korana South African who was taken abroad to be paraded as a circus act.
El 5 de septiembre se conmemora el Día Internacional de la Mujer Indígena, en honor a la guerrera aymara Bartolina Sisa, quien junto con su esposo “Túpac Katari” lideró parte importante de la rebelión aymara-quechua contra la explotación y abuso de los colonizadores españoles en el Alto Perú, que comenzó en 1780.
La realidad que nos cuentan estas lideresas de distintas partes de América Latina repiten la misma historia de saqueo, crímenes e impunidad de las corporaciones transnacionales y de la complicidad de los Estados y los representantes gubernamentales.
|
|
Keepers of the Earth Grant Partner:
El Frente Nacional de Pueblos Indígenas (FRENAPI), Costa Rica
FRENAPI is a movement that fights for the rights of Indigenous Peoples in Costa Rica, particularly focusing on rights to land, culture, and autonomy of the Huetar, Maleku, Bribri, Cabécar, Brunca, Ngöbe, Teribe, and Chorotega Peoples. Read more. En español.
|
|
Indigenous Community Media Partners:
Sama Tu’un: Weaving Networks of Words in Mexico
After initially focusing on funds for individual radio stations, Cultural Survival is now expanding its support to groups of radio stations and radio networks, towards new communication platforms, and peace-building activities. Check out these projects which are operating in the context of agrarian conflicts between communities, organized crime, mega-projects such as the Paso de la Reina hydroelectric plant, and an unstable political climate. Read more. En español.
|
|
Cultural Survival Bazaar Artists:
Indigenous Artisans behind Disney’s Next Hit Animated Film
Cultural Survival Bazaar partner, Finatur Design's master craftspeople were a part of the team that consulted on the design of traditional Colombian hats featured Disney's upcoming animated film "Encanto." Read more.
|
|
|
Celebrating 45 years of promoting and amplifying Indigenous voices through our publications! This issue is dedicated to Indigenous youth. Indigenous youth are our future. They are shattering colonial norms and Indigenizing spaces. Learn More.
|
|
|
¡Cultural Survival Quarterly ahora está disponible en español!
|
|
|
|
Cultural Survival advocates for Indigenous Peoples' rights and supports Indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultures and political resilience since 1972. We envision a future that respects and honors Indigenous Peoples' inherent rights and dynamic cultures, deeply and richly interwoven in lands, languages, spiritual traditions, and artistic expression, rooted in self-determination and self-governance.
|
|
|
|
