For Immediate Release:
March 7, 2023
March 7, 2023
'Lead the Charge' Campaign Launches with Scorecard Tracking Human Rights and Environmental Policy in the EV Supply Chain – Most Automakers Fail Indigenous Rights Due Diligence
On February 27 - March 2, 2023, three Indigenous leaders are meeting with European Union Parliamentarians in Brussels, Belgium, to bring attention to the impacts the extractive industries including oil, gas, and mining have on Indigenous Peoples’ rights, lands, and environments globally.
Content Note: The following includes disturbing information on violence against Indigenous Peoples. We have strived to provide information on each individual, in celebration of their lives and work, without gratuitous detail on their deaths.
February 21 is International Mother Language Day. Cultural Survival’s work to promote cultures and languages has been a priority since our founding and is reflected across all of our programs. Supporting cultural and language diversity and revitalization directly supports biological diversity. The language comes from the land and allows us to communicate our history, cosmovisions, spirituality, values, and knowledge systems.
Today marks the 12th annual celebration of World Radio Day as proclaimed by UNESCO. This year's theme is "Radio and Peace."
Over the last two months, millions of people around the world have had the chance to sit before an immense flat screen with hundreds of others for three and a half hours, gazing through color-filtering lenses that trick your mind into an experience of enhanced visual depth and perspective, to witness the sequel to a film that its director, James Cameron, has described as a retelling of the colonization of the Americas.
On December 13, 2022, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in cooperation with the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the members of the Global Task Force for Making a Decade of Action for Indigenous Languages, marked the official launch of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages through a hybrid in-person and virtual high-level celebration
After more than four years of preparations and negotiations, the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) has come to a close in Montreal, Canada. On December 19, 2022, the COP15 presidency adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).
For millennia, the change in celestial time has been a mystery and a celebration in many cultures around the world. In the Mayan world, Maya communities incorporated solar calendars into the design of their cities.
As the 15th Conference of Parties for the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) came to a close in Montreal, Canada, on December 19, 2022, the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity
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.