By Lucas Kasosi (Maasai, CS Intern)

If you ever find yourself in a remote Samburu village at night, you might stumble upon a scene that feels straight out of a centuries-old tradition women huddled around a bonfire, their voices rising and falling in conversation as the fire flickers against their beadwork and shukas.

Por Brandi Morin (Cree/Iroquois). Fotos por Ian Willms

En todo el mundo, las explotaciones mineras han agravado la pobreza de las comunidades indígenas y destruido sus medios de vida tradicionales, dejando tras de sí una devastación medioambiental.

By Hartman Deetz (Mashpee Wampanoag) 

By Human Rights Watch and ACLU

(Washington D.C., February 6, 2025) – The United States government’s decision to permit Lithium Americas to mine at Thacker Pass in Nevada violated Indigenous people’s rights, Human Rights Watch and the ACLU said in a report released today. The 18,000-acre mining project is under construction and will extract lithium from one of the world’s largest known deposits.

By Press Release by Native American Rights Fund

(WASHINGTON D.C., 2/2/2025)—A coalition of Tribal organizations, representing Tribal Nations and their citizens and communities, is calling on the Administration to ensure that recent executive actions do not undermine the unique sovereign political status of Tribal Nations as sovereign nations with which the federal government has trust and treaty obligations, or disrupt federal funding that flows from those relationships for essential Tribal programs.

Cultural Survival strongly condemns the violent attack on Indigenous students and Indigenous Peoples’ rights activists’ protests on January 15, 2025, against the removal of the term "Adivasi" (Indigenous in Bangla) from school textbooks in Bangladesh.

Ven a aprender sobre los mecanismos internacionales de derechos humanos, incluyendo la Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas y el Examen Periódico Universal (EPU), y cómo pueden ayudar en tus esfuerzos de defensa y presionar al gobierno de los EE. UU., tanto a nivel local como nacional, para que respete los derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas.

By John McPhaul

Faced with President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations, two Miskitu Indigenous leaders are part of a Nicaraguan delegation asking the United States government to let Nicaraguans who are in the U.S. in exile stay with an extension of Temporary Protection Status  (TPS) due to the human rights abuses meted out by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murrillo.
 

By Xiting Tong (CS Intern)

“Resisting the ‘avalanche’-like encroachment of the lithium mining industry is not only a collective fight in the community, but most importantly, it is a fight in one’s own heart and mind,” says one of the participants of the agricultural projects in Girau.

Cultural Survival and our partner organizations in Nepal, including Nepal Tamang Women Association, Newa Misa Daboo, Sunuwar Women Society, Indigenous Women's League Nepal (IWL Nepal), and National Indigenous Disabled Women Association Nepal (NIDWAN), submitted an alternative report on the situation of Indigenous women’s rights in Nepal for the 90th session of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which will take place in Geneva from February 3rd to 21st, 2025.

La comunidad Mapuche Tehuelche de la Lof Pailako en Chubut, Argentina, está enfrentando el desalojo forzoso de sus tierras ancestrales. El jueves 2 de enero de 2025 un oficial de justicia llegó a la comunidad junto con la policía federal y personal del Parque Nacional Los Alerces para dejar notificación de aviso de desalojo para el día de hoy 9 de enero “por la fuerza pública” si la comunidad no desaloja voluntariamente, el cual ya está teniendo lugar a manos de la Unidad Operativa Esquel de la Policía Federal.