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Date: May 22, 2013

On Monday, May 20, 2013, Anselmo Xunic (Kaqchikel Maya), Guatemala Community Radio Program Manager for Cultural Survival and longtime Indigenous community radio activist, meet with James Anaya, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of

Date: May 21, 2013

On Monday, May 20, just ten days after the historic conviction of ex-dictator José Efraín Ríos Montt to 80 years in prison for genocide and crimes against

Date: May 20, 2013

Free, Prior and Informed Consent  (FPIC)  is the principle that a community has the right to give its consent to proposed projects that may affect their

Date: May 17, 2013

A Coalition of 50+ Indigenous Groups Host #Proud2BIndigenous Week during UNPFII

Date: May 16, 2013
Date: May 10, 2013

 

Date: May 2, 2013

It has been two weeks since the passing of community radio founder and social and environmental activist,

Date: April 17, 2013
Date: April 15, 2013
Date: April 10, 2013
Date: April 4, 2013

On April 4, 2013, Cultural Survival's Deputy Executive Director Mark Camp was interviewed on WBAI 99.5 FM on First Voices Indigenous Radio with Tiokasin Ghosthorse about the role community radio pl

Date: April 3, 2013

By Nathan Williams

Date: March 21, 2013
Date: March 13, 2013

March 9-10, the Cultural Survival team completed our final of a series of exchanges between 12 community radio stations here in G

Date: February 27, 2013

On February 22, 2013, in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, Cultural Survival and local community radio association Mujb'ab'l yol held a forum aimed at spreading the word regarding the role of community radio in the

Date: February 26, 2013
Cambridge, MA (March 14, 2013) - On March 15, in Washington D.C., the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will hold a hearing during its 147th Period of Sessions concerning the freedom of expression of Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala. The hearing will address the status of community radio in Guatemala, which despite being guaranteed to Indigenous Peoples by the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the 1996 Peace Accords, and the Guatemalan Constitution, is not legal under the country's current telecommunications law. Cesar Gomez will represent the Guatemalan community radio movement and Cultural Survival.
Date: February 22, 2013

Sumpango es uno de los municipios del Departamento de Sacatepéquez que queda a una distancia de 42 kilómetros de la ciudad capital, con más de 50,000 habitantes,  más del 95 % de indígenas y su idioma materno es el Maya Kaqchike

Date: February 22, 2013

No lo vamos a olvidar, porque es nuestra vida, nuestras abuelas y abuelos así lo han dejado dicho. Ana Concogua.

Palín, territorio poqomam

Date: February 22, 2013
Race is still an axis of exclusion in 21st century American public sphere. The symposium on "Racist Stereotypes and Cultural Appropriation in American Sports," held at the National Museum for the American Indian in Washington D.C. on February 7 was a comprehensive dialogue on this phenomenon.
Date: February 21, 2013

Today, February 21, is International Mother Language Day, first proclaimed in 1952 as "Language Movement Day" by Dhaka University students in Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) who were protesting suppression of their Bengali language.

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