The first world conference for one of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the UN Ocean Conference, focused on SDG Goal 14: Life Below Water, to “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.”  Fiji and Sweden co-chaired and coordinated the June 5 - 9, 2017 global gathering at the UN headquarters in New York. More than 6,000 people from all sectors of society attended the conference where 150 events and 41 exhibits were held.

By John McPhaul

In October 2016, a number of Costa Rican Indigenous representatives attended a meeting in the regional hub of Buenos Aires in southern Costa Rica. Called by the government’s Ministry of the Presidency as part of a consultation process, the meeting was an opportunity for Indigenous Peoples to voice their opposition to a giant dam proposed on the Diquis Reservoir that would inundate part of their land.

August 9, 2017

On International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, WACC and Cultural Survival are highlighting the importance of communication in helping to promote and advance the rights of indigenous people around the world.

PRONUNCIAMIENTO

sobre el Dia Internacional De Los Pueblos Indígenas

On July 24-28, 2017, in Toronto, Canada, the 10th World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WIPCE) took place.

Photo: Tsilhqot'in leaders drum at a rally outside of the British Colombia Supreme Court. Photo by Sierra Club BC, used with permission. 

 

Several Indigenous women's organizations from the Maya, Garífuna and Xinca peoples working with the Tzununijá Movement, have developed a multi-year consultation and collective construction process that has included meetings, conferences and workshops in an effort to produce the Second Shadow Specific Report on Indigenous Women of Guatemala for submission to the Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

Diversas organizaciones de mujeres indígenas de los pueblos Maya, Garífuna y Xinca, aglutinadas en el Movimiento Tzununijá,  han desarrollado un proceso de consulta y construcción colectiva de varios años, que incluye encuentros, reuniones y talleres, para producir el Segundo Informe Sombra Específico referente a Mujeres Indígenas de Guatemala sobre el cumplimiento de la CONVENCIÓN SOBRE LA ELIMINACIÓN DE TODAS LAS FORMAS DE DISCRIMINACIÓN CONTRA LA MUJER –CEDAW-Guatemala, 2017”

After many years of collaborating with and supporting Indigenous artists, Cultural Survival is proud to announce its first Summer Indigenous Artisan Institute that will take place on July 24-July 28, 2017 in the Greater Boston area, thanks to the Paul and Edith Babson Foundation.

As wildfires are raging across four out of six Tsilhqot’in First Nation communities in Canada, the  British Colombia provincial government has quietly authorized drilling permits to Taseko Mines Ltd, mining company who has made multiple failed attempts to launch a gold and copper mine on Tsilhqot’in territory.