By The Tonawanda Seneca Nation
By The Tonawanda Seneca Nation
By Wakinyan LaPointe (Sicangu Lakota)
February 13 is World Radio Day!
Today marks the 15th annual celebration of World Radio Day, as proclaimed by UNESCO.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
12.02.2026
Daria Egereva Will Remain in Detention until March 15 After Court Decision
Dr. Ruth H. Matamoros-Mercado (Miskitu) is a scholar and Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography & Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From an interdisciplinary perspective, her work bridges law, geography, and Indigenous studies to understand and raise awareness of the struggles for land, community resistance, and environmental justice in Central America. Originally from the northern Moskitia region of Nicaragua, Dr. Matamoros-Mercado brings to her research a perspective deeply rooted in the lived experience of the Miskitu people.
9 de fevereiro de 2026
Para: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Presidente da Federação Russa
O Kremlin, Moscou
Federação Russa
Prezado Presidente,
Dirigimo-nos ao Excelentíssimo Senhor Presidente em nome dos Povos Indígenas das sete regiões socioculturais das Nações Unidas, bem como das organizações e instituições que, ao longo de muitos anos, têm mantido uma parceria sustentada com a Sra. Daria Egereva nos processos internacionais das Nações Unidas.
For Immediate Release
February 9, 2026
On December 17, 2025, Russian special services arrested Daria Egereva, a member of the Selkup Indigenous Peoples from the Tomsk region of Russia, on charges of “terrorism.” The next day, the court decided to detain her in custody for two months. Her next hearing is scheduled for the end of February and could deprive her of her freedom for up to 20 years. Egereva is a prominent Indigenous human rights defender and climate activist.
By Lucas Kasosi (Maasai, CS Fellow)
Each year on February 2, the world observes World Wetlands Day, marking the 1971 adoption of the Convention on Wetlands in Ramsar, Iran. What began as a modest international agreement has grown into a global framework for recognizing the ecological, social, and economic importance of wetlands, ecosystems once dismissed as wastelands, but now understood as essential to life on Earth.
In October 2025, four Indigenous communities in Guatemala—Maya Kaqchikel de Sumpango, Maya Achí Chicaj, Mam de Cajolá, and Maya Mam de Todos Santos Cuchumatán—submitted an alternative report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), with support from the Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples Clinic at Suffolk University Law School and Cultural Survival.
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.