For Immediate Release:
February 28, 2024
For Immediate Release:
February 28, 2024
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)
By Tia-Alexi Roberts (Narragansett, CS Staff)
¡Hoy 13 de febrero es Día Mundial de la Radio!
Reposted from www.sirgecoalition.org.
Indigenous Peoples’ right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) provides a framework for the considerations and processes required when investors and governments seek to develop projects that may affect Indigenous communities, lands, territories, and resources. For this reason, Indigenous leaders must be prepared to advocate for their individual communities' FPIC priorities on their own terms from a fully informed and proactive position.
By Chenae Bullock (Shinnecock)
Por Mariana Kiimi Ortiz (Ñuu Saavi, Equipo de CS)
Cultural Survival expresses its solidarity with the Maya Peoples, the Maya Leaders Alliance, and the Toledo Alcaldes Association, in southern Belize in demanding that the State of Belize comply with the 2015 Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruling and respect Indigenous rights to land and Free, Prior and Informed Consent in every matter that affects Maya Peoples.