For more than a century, the Kankanaey and Ibaloy Peoples of Itogon, Benguet province in the Cordillera region of Northern Luzon in the Philippines have been waging a struggle against the injustices of large-scale corporate mining. As they continue to fight to reclaim their land, lifeways, and resources, they vow to keep fighting as long as it takes—generations, if necessary—until they are successful.
Tamang Indigenous Peoples, along with other local community members in Lapsiphedi (Bojheni) village in Shankharapur municipality in the northeast Kathmandu valley, are continuing their peaceful protest against a hydroelectric transmission line and power station. At the end of December 2022, they formed a committee demanding the relocation of the Tamakoshi-Kathmandu transmission line and substation.
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)
"I am sometimes asked what it’s like living in the 'disaster hit district' and running community radio. People often are surprised by me, being a woman station manager, and their questions are mainly about the role that community radio plays in informing locals living in an area at risk of disaster and the sustainability of radio itself," says Sunita Lama, Station Manager of Radio Jugal, a 2021 Cultural Survival Indigenous Community Media Fund grant partner.
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Sunuwar, CS Staff)
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Sunuwar, CS Staff)
With COVID-19 cases decreasing, everyday life has finally resumed in Nepal. Just seven years ago, Nepal was reeling from a massive earthquake that killed and injured thousands. One of the worst-hit areas after the earthquake and its aftershocks was Rasuwa, home to a community of pastoralist Tamang Indigenous Peoples.
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar ((Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)
On February 20, 2022, the Patan Appellate Court sentenced Chiran Kumar Budha, a sergeant in the Nepal Army, to lifetime imprisonment (25 years as per Criminal Code 2017) for beating to death 24-year-old Raj Kumar Chepang (Chepang) from Pipal Milan Chowk Ward, Rapti Municipality-2, Chitwan, in 2020.
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (CS Staff)
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)
Human trafficking is one of the most difficult issues to address in Nepal. It is a purposefully hidden practice, affecting and exploiting thousands of women, adolescent girls, and children. But despite its invisible nature, it abundantly shows that Indigenous women and girls are disproportionately affected by human trafficking and represent almost 70 percent of the cases.
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (CS Staff)
Following a successful advocacy campaign by the Indigenous Community Radio Network (ICRN), a grant partner of Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Community Media Fund, along with other media organizations in Nepal, the Nepali government has decided to hold back its plans to present new media legislation to the federal Parliament for approval.
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