Statement to the 17th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples by the Indigenous Media and Communication Caucus, April 19, 2018
Read by: Cultural Survival's Dev Kumar Sunuwar, Nepal
Thank you, Madam Chair,
On behalf of the Indigenous Media and Communication Caucus to the United Nations, we salute the UN General Assembly for proclaiming 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages.
Los Pueblos Indígenas de todo el mundo estarán viajando a la ciudad de Nueva York para el Foro Permanente de la Organización Naciones Unidas sobre Cuestiones Indígenas del 16 de al 27 de abril. Aunque la mayoría de nosotros no podemos llegar a Nueva York, nuestras voces deben ser escuchadas. Nuestro objetivo es crear una tormenta de actividad en línea durante el Foro Permanente para que se escuchen las voces Indígenas en todas partes.
As the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,Victoria Tauli-Corpuz has visited countries around the world to investigate the treatment of Ind
Cultural Survival’s Keepers of the Earth Fund provides small grants designed to support Indigenous Peoples’ community advocacy and development projects. Since 2007, the Fund has provided nearly $2.5 million in grants and technical assistance to over 350 Indigenous-led projects in 64 countries around the world.
“In my 12 years of doing community radio, I had never had the opportunity to produce my own radio pieces. This was a task delegated and assumed by men, and therefore I came to think it was something complicated.
We are excited to announce that Cultural Survival’s Executive Director Suzanne Benally (Santa Clara Tewa/ Navajo) has joined the Board of Directors of International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP), the only global donor affinity group dedicated solely to Indigenous Peoples around the world. For the past seventeen years, IFIP has built momentum toward a new movement in philanthropy that recognizes Indigenous communities as high-impact investments. Throughout the years, IFIP has organized 14 major conferences, bringing thousands of donors and Indigenous leaders together.
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.
