Intersectionality is a Practice: Inclusive Funding Must Resource Disability and Indigenous Rights
Inclusive funding must resource Disability and Indigenous rights. Rucha Chitnis, Communications Director at the Disability Rights Fund, 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.
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SIRGE Coalition Applauds AXIS Policy on Indigenous Rights
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.
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Multipurpose Development Projects Threaten to Submerge Majhi Indigenous Peoples in Nepal
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.
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Costa Rican Supreme Court Upholds Indigenous Rights to Land
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.
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Indigenous Authorities and Indigenous Community Radio Stations in Guatemala Hold Dialogue on Implementing Their Right to Freedom of Expression
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.
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Meet our 2022 Keepers of the Earth Fund Grant Partners
In 2022, the Keepers of the Earth Fund supported 65 projects totaling $308,067 in 20 countries. Read more. En español.
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Meet Our Second Cohort of 2022 Indigenous Youth Fellows!
Cultural Survival is pleased to announce our second cohort of 2022 Indigenous Youth Fellows as part of our Capacity Building Program. Read more. En español
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Meet Our 2022 Indigenous Community Media Fund Grant Partners
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. En español.
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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.
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COP 27 - Gunn-Britt Retter on Green Colonialism
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.
COP 27 - Eileen Mairena Cunningham on The Impact Of Climate Change in Nicaragua
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
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.
Pueblos Indígenas en Argentina: un ejemplo en la defensa del territorio
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. |
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Keepers of the Earth Grant Partner Spotlight:
Land Is Life: A'i Cofán Peoples Defend Their Territory Against Oil Extraction in Ecuador
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. En español.
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Indigenous Community Media Partner Spotlight:
Asociación Pukllasunchis, Mexico
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. En Español.
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Indigenous Youth Fellow Spotlight:
What Are Our Youth Fellows Up To?
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. En español.
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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.
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¡Cultural Survival Quarterly ahora está disponible en español!
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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.
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