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
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Date: May 22, 2013
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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 |
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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 |
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Date: May 17, 2013
A Coalition of 50+ Indigenous Groups Host #Proud2BIndigenous Week during UNPFII |
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Date: May 16, 2013
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Date: May 10, 2013
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Date: May 2, 2013
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Date: April 17, 2013
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Date: April 15, 2013
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Date: April 10, 2013
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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 |
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Date: April 3, 2013
By Nathan Williams |
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Date: March 21, 2013
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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 |
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Date: February 27, 2013
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |





















