José Francisco Cali Tzay (Maya Kaqchikel), a longtime defender of Indigenous rights, completed his term on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on January 19, 2020. The CERD is the Treaty Monitoring Body for the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), and one of nine International Human Rights Treaties within the UN system. The ICERD is legally-binding for the 175 countries (State parties) which have ratified it to date.

By Tarcila Rivera Zea
 

El pasado 26 de febrero se llevó a cabo el VII Encuentro continental de Mujeres Indígenas de las Américas en la ciudad de México, donde se dieron cita cerca de 150 mujeres Indígenas entre ellas, lideresas, sabias, artistas, parteras, parlamentarias, exparlamentarias, abogadas, comunicadoras, cineastas, defensoras de derechos, académicas y autoridades Indígenas de las 3 Américas, con el objetivo de realizar un balance intergeneracional sobre la situación del ejercicio de los derechos colectivos e individuales como mujeres Indígenas y construir soluciones articuladas con una ruta estratégica

Estimada Comunidad de Cultural Survival,

Dear Cultural Survival community,

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.