Languages and Cultures

Read more about Cultural Survival’s Community Media Grants Project Announces First Recipient, Radio Xyaab’ Tzuul Taq’a

Cultural Survival and Toronto based WACC are pleased to announce the first grantee of our Indigenous Community Radio Grants Project partnership. A new radio start up, Radio Xyaab’ Tzuul Taq’a (“Voice of the Mountains” in Q’eqchi) of the Maya Q’eqchi community in El Estor, Guatemala was chosen because of the immediate need to strengthen broadcast infrastructure and systems, and the start up’s promise for continued success.

Read more about Spotlight on Peru at Cultural Survival Bazaars in Boston

On December 10-11, and on December 16-18, a local Cambridge-based nonprofit will host two craft festivals highlighting Indigenous art from around the world. Among them, artists from various regions of Peru will participate. Their art will showcase the rich diversity of Peruvian Indigenous cultures, with crafts ranging from hand-carved wooden scenes called retablos, to silver jewelry inspired by pre-Columbian textiles, to music featuring Andean winds and strings.

Read more about Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Statement on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Decision to Not Grant Easement

The department of the Army will not approve an easement that will allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe. The following statement was released by Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II.

Read more about Global Call on Banks to Halt Loan to Dakota Access Pipeline

Over 400 civil society organisations from more than 50 countries today issued a joint open letter to the seventeen banks providing a US$2.5 billion project loan to Dakota Access LLC. The letter, endorsed by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, demands that the banks involved immediately halt all further disbursements of the loan and require the project sponsor to stop construction work until all outstanding issues are resolved to the full satisfaction of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The letter and the full list of signatories can be found below.

Read more about Cultural Survival Condemns the Assassination of Guatemalan Human Rights Defender

Cultural Survival condemns the assassination of Guatemalan human rights defender Jeremy Abraham Barrios Lima on 12 November, 2016.

Read more about Think Globally, Shop Locally: At International Art Festival, Celebrate the Native Peoples of New England

On December 10-11, and on December 16-18, Indigenous artists and musicians from across the globe will come together in Boston and Cambridge for Cultural Survival’s free admission Native arts and cultures Bazaars.

Read more about The International Indigenous Peoples` Forum on Climate Change Condemns the Construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline

The International Indigenous Peoples` Forum on Climate Change Condemns the Construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Read more about Human Rights Observer Report on Mission to Standing Rock Sioux Reservation

This report was submitted by Roberto Borrero representing the International Indian Treaty Council, non-Governmental Organization in General Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, traveling as a Human Rights Observer and in support of Grand Chief Edward John, UN Expert Member, Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, about their mission to Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and the Oceti Sakowin (“Seven Council Fires”) Camp on October 29 – 31, 2016.

Read more about UN Expert Releases Report on Conditions Surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline

In response to an October 28, 2016 letter of invitation to me as an Expert Member of the UNPFII from Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman, David Archambault, Chief Edward John, Expert Member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, traveled from my community to North Dakota to see, firsthand, the conditions that he, his peoples and those from other communities have been facing in relation to the clearing of the right of way and subsequent construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Read more about UN Special Rapporteur Addresses the Intersection of Conservation and Indigenous Rights

On July 29, 2016, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz presented a thematic report that examines the rights of Indigenous Peoples in regards to nature conservation to the UN General Assembly.

Read more about Indigenous Leader Marcos Terena Receives the Wisdom Fellowship Award

By Sacred Fire Foundation

Honoring his leadership and tireless work for the rights of Indigenous Peoples worldwide, on November 26, 2016 the Sacred Fire Foundation presented Xané leader Marcos Terena with the Wisdom Fellowship award.

The award ceremony took place in Lima, Perú a Gala dinner during the The Latin America Indigenous Funders Conference, a unique event that brings leaders from the Indigenous, donor, and corporate worlds to the same table.

Read more about Human Rights Council Reviews Namibia

On January 18, 2016, Namibia’s human rights record was reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Council as part of the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. This mechanism emerged from the 2005 UN reform process and periodically examines the human rights performance of all 193 UN Member States. It is intended to complement the work of other human rights mechanisms, including the UN human rights treaty bodies.

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