As the COVID-19 virus spreads to countries with low-resources, high levels of poverty and malnutrition, high levels of inequality, and discrimination against Indigenous Peoples, we know that this crisis will have a much deeper and more widespread impact.
Costa Rican Authorities Fail to Respond to Ongoing Violence
José Francisco Cali Tzay (Maya Kaqchikel), a longtime defender of Indigenous rights, completed his term on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on January 19, 2020. The CERD is the Treaty Monitoring Body for the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), and one of nine International Human Rights Treaties within the UN system. The ICERD is legally-binding for the 175 countries (State parties) which have ratified it to date.
By Octaviana Trujillo, Laurie Smith Monti, and Gary Paul Nabhan
By Tarcila Rivera Zea
El pasado 26 de febrero se llevó a cabo el VII Encuentro continental de Mujeres Indígenas de las Américas en la ciudad de México, donde se dieron cita cerca de 150 mujeres Indígenas entre ellas, lideresas, sabias, artistas, parteras, parlamentarias, exparlamentarias, abogadas, comunicadoras, cineastas, defensoras de derechos, académicas y autoridades Indígenas de las 3 Américas, con el objetivo de realizar un balance intergeneracional sobre la situación del ejercicio de los derechos colectivos e individuales como mujeres Indígenas y construir soluciones articuladas con una ruta estratégica
Estimada Comunidad de Cultural Survival,
Dear Cultural Survival community,
By Carolyn Smith-Morris and Danielle DeLuca
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar
The UN high-level event organized in Los Pinos, Mexico City was a formal closing of the International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019 (IYIL) and concluded by endorsing a strategic outcome document, a road map for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. On December 18, 2019, the UN General Assembly proclaimed an International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032) as a follow up to the International Year.
"1. Indigenous Peoples, in particular those divided by international borders, have the right to maintain and develop contacts, relations and cooperation, including activities for spiritual, cultural, political, economic and social purposes, with their own members as well as other peoples across borders.
2. States, in consultation and cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, shall take effective measures to facilitate the exercise and ensure the implementation of this right."
-- Article 36, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Jason Pramas, executive editor
Chris Faraone, editor
March 9, 2019
Dear Editors of Dig Boston,
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.
