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October 2022 Enewsletter
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** Cultural Survival Demands Justice for Indigenous Leaders Assassinated in Paraguay
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On Sunday, October 23, 2022, Paĩ Tavyterã Guaraní Indigenous leaders Alcides Romero Morilla and Rodrigo Gómez González were assassinated during a confrontation between security forces from the Paraguayan state and the EPP (Paraguayan People's Army), a non-state armed group. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** Elections in Brazil: What Is at Stake for Indigenous Peoples?
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The 2022 elections for president, senate, and the chamber of deputies are undoubtedly one of the most important in the history of this new democracy. For Indigenous Peoples, with a record participation of more than 180 candidates, these elections represent a political reaction to the numerous attacks against their rights and lands under Bolsonaro. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Intersectionality is a Practice: Inclusive Funding Must Resource Disability and Indigenous Rights
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Inclusive funding must resource Disability and Indigenous rights. Rucha Chitnis, Communications Director at the Disability Rights Fund ([link removed]) , reminds us that less than 2% of global human rights funding goes to persons with disabilities even when there are one billion people around the world living with some form of disability, 28 million of them are Indigenous women. Read more. ([link removed])
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** SIRGE Coalition Applauds AXIS Policy on Indigenous Rights
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The SIRGE Coalition applauds the recently adopted human rights policy at AXIS Capital. AXIS Capital is the first North American insurer to state that it will not underwrite new projects that fail to obtain the Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of impacted Indigenous communities, as outlined in UNDRIP. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Multipurpose Development Projects Threaten to Submerge Majhi Indigenous Peoples in Nepal
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Despite ongoing protests by Majhi Indigenous Peoples living alongside the Sunkoshi and Tamakoshi Rivers in eastern Nepal, the government of Nepal launched the Sunkoshi-Marine Diversion Multipurpose Project, one of the most debated developments in the country. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Costa Rican Supreme Court Upholds Indigenous Rights to Land
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On October 19, 2022, the Constitutional Chamber of the Costa Rican Supreme Court rejected a request of unconstitutionality brought against Article 3 of the country's Indigenous Law that prohibits non-Indigenous people from acquiring or selling land inside any of the country’s 24 Indigenous Territories. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Indigenous Authorities and Indigenous Community Radio Stations in Guatemala Hold Dialogue on Implementing Their Right to Freedom of Expression
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With a team of six international and national lawyers, specialists, and a technical team from Cultural Survival, we took the first step towards the implementation of the IACHR Indigenous Maya Kaqchikel Peoples of Sumpango vs. Guatemala decision by organizing a Q&A session. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Meet our 2022 Keepers of the Earth Fund Grant Partners
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In 2022, the Keepers of the Earth Fund supported 65 projects totaling $308,067 in 20 countries. Read more ([link removed]) . En español ([link removed]) .
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** Meet Our Second Cohort of 2022 Indigenous Youth Fellows!
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Cultural Survival is pleased to announce our second cohort of 2022 Indigenous Youth Fellows as part of our Capacity Building Program. Read more. ([link removed]) En español ([link removed])
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** Meet Our 2022 Indigenous Community Media Fund Grant Partners
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In 2022, Cultural Survival was able to support Indigenous communities with 23 grants totaling $138,000 to Indigenous community media outlets from 13 countries. Read more. ([link removed]) En español ([link removed]) .
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The Struggle for Pataxó Peoples' Rights, Territory, and Environment in Brazil

Pataxó Indigenous Peoples from the southern state of Bahia, in Northeast Brazil, are reclaiming their lands that are part of the last great strongholds of the forest biome. In the process of land reclamation, Indigenous leaders are suffering attacks from armed violence by criminal groups. This webinar aims to inform about what is happening and mobilize international support.

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Indigenous Stewardship: Fulfilling our Responsibilities to Land and Community

Hear how Indigenous leaders are risking their lives to secure land titles, protect their territories from extractive industries, rematriate and restore land, and get land back to its original stewards. En español. ([link removed])


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COP 27 - Gunn-Britt Retter on Green Colonialism ([link removed])
In the transition to the so-called green economy, Indigenous Peoples are facing a new wave of extractivism for transition minerals. We spoke to Gunn-Britt Retter (Saami) from the Saami Council.

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COP 27 - Eileen Mairena Cunningham on The Impact Of Climate Change in Nicaragua ([link removed])
A Just Transition for Indigenous Peoples is one that centers a human rights approach and the protection of biodiversity and advances Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination in all endeavors relating to the building of green economies. Cultural Survival spoke to Eileen Mairena Cunningham (Miskitu) from CADPI.

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Minerales de transición, una amenaza para los Pueblos Indígenas ([link removed])
En este programa, la activista chilena Karen Luza denuncia cómo la extracción de cobre y litio, dos minerales de transición, ha impactado de manera negativa la vida de las comunidades Indígenas en la región de San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.

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Pueblos Indígenas en Argentina: un ejemplo en la defensa del territorio ([link removed])
En el caso de la comunidad Indígena Angosto El Perchel, la principal exigencia era que siempre que se pretendan realizar proyectos en sus territorios, se cumpla con una consulta conforme a los estándares del Convenio 169 de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo, y en el caso de la comunidad de Salinas Grandes Guayatayoc se exigía la salida de una empresa que pretendía extraer litio.
820+ Urgent Public Service Announcements on COVID-19 Are Now Available in 150+ Indigenous Languages ([link removed])
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** Keepers of the Earth Grant Partner Spotlight:
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** Land Is Life: A'i Cofán Peoples Defend Their Territory Against Oil Extraction in Ecuador
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The A'i Cofán community of Dureno is located on the Aguarico River in the province of Sucumbios in the northeastern part of the Ecuadorian Amazon. During the last several decades this region has suffered oil exploitation and currently faces a threat from the State oil company, Petroecuador, a situation that is generating an internal division among community members. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** Indigenous Community Media Partner Spotlight:
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** Asociación Pukllasunchis, Mexico
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Since 2017, Pautas para Pensar en Mi Lengua (Guidelines for Thinking in My Language) has sought to help students in Indigenous communities in Chiapas and the Yucatán, Mexico, become more curious about their environment and communities. Through this program, children and youth are encouraged to think and imagine to learn and discover from in their own Indigenous languages, recognizing the existing knowledge in their communities. Read more ([link removed]) . En Español ([link removed]) .
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** Indigenous Youth Fellow Spotlight:
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** What Are Our Youth Fellows Up To?
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Lissandra Angeli Mukul Canché (Maya), Ana María Vásquez Hernández (Tsotsil), and Juan Gutiérrez Pérez (Maya Tzeltal) were awarded fellowships as part of the 2021 cohort in Mexico. Since then, they have been working to safeguard ancestral knowledge and promote organized collective struggles and the memories of their ancestors. We share with you their three fellowship projects. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine
46-3 Indigenous Stewardship: Fulfilling our Responsibilities to Land and Community ([link removed])
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This issue of the Cultural Survival Quarterly is dedicated to Indigenous land stewardship, the struggles to secure Indigenous land rights, and our rights and responsibilities to our ancestral territories.


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