Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Community Media Fund provides funding opportunities, accompaniment, and training to Indigenous community media platforms to carry out their crucial informational, documentary, and cultural work within and outside their communities. Since 2017, the Indigenous Community Media Fund has awarded 298 grants, supporting community media projects in 29 countries across 3 continents, totaling $1,772,361.
UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco Calí Tzay (Maya Kaqchikel), conducted a week-long visit to Nepal on September 10–17, 2023, to meet and learn more about Nepal’s Indigenous Peoples and the status of their human rights. Calí Tzay was invited to Nepal for academic purposes by the Central Department of Anthropology of Tribhuvan University, the oldest and biggest university in the country.
Indigenous community media is essential for Indigenous Peoples’ reclamation and resistance movements worldwide. They contribute to securing respect for individual and collective rights, ensuring access to relevant, contextualized information and content in Indigenous languages, created and transmitted according to the interests, needs, and worldviews of the Indigenous communities they represent.
Kajkoj Maximo Ba Tiul (maya poqomchi')
Dear Presidents, Commissioners, and Rapporteur,
We, the undersigned organisations, represent Indigenous Peoples, afro-descendant peoples, and other peoples and communities who share an experience of collective ownership, management and use of our lands, territories and natural resources. Many of us are recognised as human rights, land and environmental defenders for our efforts to protect these lands, territories and resources.
Deadline to apply: November 30, 2023
Fellowship range: $2,500 - $6,000
Cultural Survival has defended Indigenous Peoples’ rights and supported the self-determination, cultures, and political resilience of Indigenous communities since 1972.
Date limite pour postuler : 30 novembre 2023
Dotation : 2.500 $ - 6.000 $ USD
Cultural Survival défend les droits des peuples autochtones et soutient l'autodétermination, les cultures et la résilience politique des communautés autochtones depuis 1972.
Prazo: 30 de novembro de 2023
Valor da bolsa: de 2.500 a 6.000 USD
Cultural Survival é uma ONG que defende os direitos dos Povos Indígenas e apoia a autodeterminação, as culturas e a resiliência política das comunidades Indígenas desde 1972.
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)
A Bolsa para Jovens Indígenas da Cultural Survival apoia jovens líderes Indígenas com idades entre 17 e 28 anos que estão trabalhando em transformar suas comunidades e criar oportunidades para a elevação, defesa e fortalecimento de suas culturas e tradições, ao mesmo tempo em que desenvolvem suas habilidades de liderança, organização e gestão. Desde 2018, concedemos 111 bolsas apoiando 215 bolsistas.
Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Youth Fellowship supports young Indigenous leaders between the ages of 17–28 who are working to transform their communities and create opportunities for the elevation, defense, and strengthening of their cultures and traditions while developing their leadership, organizational, and management skills. Since 2018, we have awarded 111 fellowships supporting 215 fellows.
Statement by the UNITED NATIONS
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
and the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Geneva, July 2023
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.
