By Carolyn Smith-Morris and Danielle DeLuca

By Dev Kumar Sunuwar

The UN high-level event organized in Los Pinos, Mexico City was a formal closing of the International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019 (IYIL) and concluded by endorsing a strategic outcome document, a road map for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. On December 18, 2019, the UN General Assembly proclaimed an International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032) as a follow up to the International Year.
 

"1. Indigenous Peoples, in particular those divided by international borders, have the right to maintain and develop contacts, relations and cooperation, including activities for spiritual, cultural, political, economic and social purposes, with their own members as well as other peoples across borders.
2. States, in consultation and cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, shall take effective measures to facilitate the exercise and ensure the implementation of this right."

-- Article 36, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Sunday, March 8, is International Women's Day (#IWD), first celebrated in 1909. In recent years, the annual event has gained recognition, giving a chance to celebrate achievements in the women's movement and to inspire further progress through both local and international action.

Cultural Survival’s Keepers of the Earth Fund provides small grants designed to support Indigenous Peoples’ community advocacy and development projects. Since 2007, the Fund has provided nearly $3 million in grants and technical assistance to over 450 Indigenous-led projects in 65 countries around the world.

Las mujeres Indígenas, tanto de las zonas rurales como de las zonas urbanas, se enfrentan a múltiples obstáculos para participar en la toma de decisiones (Naciones Unidas, 2013b) y siguen siendo objeto de discriminación, incluso en el mundo del trabajo (Naciones Unidas, 2015b; OIT, 2016b, 2017e). Además, cuando las cuestiones de género se cruzan con las relativas al origen étnico, aumentan las disparidades por motivos de género y las desigualdades entre mujeres (OIT, 2019g).

Cultural Survival's 2020 Indigenous Community Media Youth Fellows are hard at work. The Fellowship Project aims to support young Indigenous leaders between the ages of 16-26, who are committed and eager to learn about technology, program development, journalism, community radio, media, and Indigenous Peoples’ rights advocacy.

Cultural Survival tiene el honor de anunciar la convocatoria para propuestas sobre “saberes tradicionales” para jóvenes Indígenas colaboradores en medios comunitarios.  Buscamos producciones radiales sobre saberes tradicionales o ancestrales (plantas sagradas, curación, ceremonias, lenguaje, musica) los cuales son bienes colectivos en las comunidades Indígenas.

Cultural Survival y Radio de Derechos Indígenas se complace en anunciar la apertura de un nuevo proceso en el “Programa de Formación Continua” esta vez en modalidad de diplomado, contaremos con encuentros virtuales y uno presencial en Guatemala el cual está dedicado a 20 comunicadoras de 20 radios comunitarias Indígenas en Centroamérica. 

Cuál es el fin de este proceso y quienes participan?

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. Police and military forces opened fire, killing many young people in attendance. 

On February 26-29, 2020, Indigenous women from across the American continent will come together in Mexico City for the 8th Continental Conference of Indigenous Women of the Americas. The Conference will be hosted by the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas (ECMIA), a network of organizations from 23 countries that has been fighting for more than two decades for the individual and collective rights of Indigenous women and children.