By Edson Krenak (Krenak, CS Staff)

The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, the European Union’s new, watered-down, proposed law, aims to improve business regulations but fails to adequately consider Indigenous Peoples. Its language is not strong enough and its standards are unclear, lacking specific measures to protect these rights effectively. The EU needs to start viewing the rights of Indigenous Peoples as vital components of environmental and social policies, ensuring they are fully integrated and prioritized.

By MJ McCarron

By CS Staff

In February 2024, Cultural Survival and partners, Tsilinkalli: Ediciones de la Casa Sonora and Tsilinkalli Radio, submitted a joint alternative stakeholder report on the situation of Indigenous rights in Mexico for the 112th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which will take place in Geneva from April 8-29, 2024.

By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)

The 16th World Social Forum, held under the banner "Another World is Possible," concluded on February 19, 2024, with a resounding message that Indigenous voices cannot be silenced in the fight for global justice and sustainability. While the five-day conference, the first of its kind to be hosted in Nepal, tackled a spectrum of social issues, a distinct theme emerged: the urgent need to address the unique struggles and aspirations of Indigenous communities worldwide.

Joint Statement by the SIRGE COALITION 

By César Gómez (Maya Poqomam, CS Staff)

As time goes by, communications evolve. Facebook, Instagram, X, WhatsApp, are some of the platforms that, second by second, minute by minute, interconnect millions of people around the world, bringing the borders of countries closer. However, these new technologies require the purchase of data, making their use dependent on the market and excluding the vast majority of the population who cannot afford them.

My name is Celia Flor Díaz Pérez, and I am a Maya Tsotsil woman from Los Altos de Chiapas, of the Chamo' culture. I will be 35 years old in April. I introduce myself as Celia Nichim (which means flower in Tsotsil) in some places that do not require my legal name since my surname is part of the colonial imposition.

On February 28, 2024, EU Member States have sent a clear message: no change is needed in business conduct – despite the years-long debates and negotiations between the co-legislators and the stark defy the resounding support for the Directive from governments, trade unions, civil society, large, medium and small businesses, and individual citizens.

This afternoon, EU diplomats met at the Coreper to decide and endorse the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).

For Immediate Release:
February 28, 2024

By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff) 

By Tia-Alexi Roberts (Narragansett, CS Staff)