To President Biden and Vice President Harris,

En el marco del Dia Mundial de la Radio, el Movimiento de Radios Comunitarias de Guatemala hace saber que el derecho a la libertad de expresión de los pueblos indígenas es un derecho humano que lamentablemente el Estado de Guatemala viola y niega a los pueblos indígenas.  Desde los Acuerdos de Paz el Estado se comprometió a facilitar frecuencias sin que a la fecha se tenga una respuesta positiva.

Today, February 14, 2023, Valentine's Day, marks the 32^nd Annual Women’s Memorial March which is held every year in Vancouver on February 14 to commemorate the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and all women and underrepresented genders whose lives have been taken due to colonial systemic violence, poverty, racism, displacement, physical, mental, emotional, and spirit

Tamang Indigenous Peoples, along with other local community members in Lapsiphedi (Bojheni) village in Shankharapur municipality in the northeast Kathmandu valley, are continuing their peaceful protest against a hydroelectric transmission line and power station. At the end of December 2022, they formed a committee demanding the relocation of the Tamakoshi-Kathmandu transmission line and substation.

February 11 marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a day to celebrate the contributions that Indigenous women and girls make to the fields of science and technology. It is also a movement that aims to promote the full and equal participation of women and girls in the scientific community. Integral to this movement are Indigenous women who are the holders of generations of Traditional Knowledge and the best stewards of biodiversity.

En Kapsokwony, situado en el condado de Bungoma (Kenia), vive Emmanuel Kiplimo (ogiek), un joven Indígena preocupado por la falta de acceso de su comunidad a la educación y los servicios sanitarios. Emmanuel recibió la Beca a Jóvenes Indígenas de Cultural Survival y su proyecto se centró en la producción de radio comunitaria para promover la salud, la educación y la inclusión de género. Su preocupación radicaba en la falta de respuesta del gobierno hacia los servicios sanitarios y educativos estatales que no llegan a su comunidad. 

The Securing Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in the Green Economy (SIRGE) Coalition stands with the Apache Stronghold in demanding that Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) – Indigenous Peoples’ right to give or withhold consent on projects that impact or potentially impact them – is honored. FPIC flows from Indigenous self-determination as articulated in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and should be honored as such.

Cultural Survival condena la exportación irregular de piezas arqueológicas Mayas por parte del gobierno de Guatemala, con el propósito declarado de restaurarlas y exhibirlas en el Museo Metropolitano de Arte (MET) de la ciudad Nueva York, así como la Iniciativa de Ley No. 59-23 del Rescate del Patrimonio Prehispánico que pretende restaurar, proteger y preservar sitios arqueológicos junto con la iniciativa privada.

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. 

Shocking images have been released over the past few days showing the suffering of Yanomami Peoples in the Brazilian and Venezuelan Amazon. In the third week of January 2023, Yanomami people in Roraima, northern Brazil, were found with severe malnutrition, especially in children. According to the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, nearly 100 children between the ages of 1 and 4 died in 2022 from malnutrition, malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea.