Les Malezer (Gubbi Gubbi and Butchulla) is a retired chairperson of the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (FAIRA) and a longtime advocate for the promotion of human rights of Indigenous Peoples. Malezer worked with the Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus to advance the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples through the final stages to the UN General Assembly in 2007.
To the Esteemed Members of the Comissão do Conselho Nacional de Educação Escolar Indígena (CNEEI) and other MEC Commissions,
We express our support for the full participation of Universidade Pluriétnica Indígena Aldeia Maracanã and its scholars in the deliberations and discussions with the MEC Commission concerning the establishment of an Indigenous university in Brazil.
México: A tres años de su detención arbitraria, exigimos la libertad de Kenia Hernández
Ginebra-París-México, 20 de octubre de 2023
UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco Calí Tzay (Maya Kaqchikel), conducted a week-long visit to Nepal on September 10–17, 2023, to meet and learn more about Nepal’s Indigenous Peoples and the status of their human rights. Calí Tzay was invited to Nepal for academic purposes by the Central Department of Anthropology of Tribhuvan University, the oldest and biggest university in the country.
By Chenae Bullock (Shinnecock)
Indigenous Peoples hold tenure to over 25 percent of the world's land surface, which is home to about 80 percent of the remaining global biodiversity, all while making up just a bit over 6 percent of the human population. Investing in Indigenous communities can promote cultural continuity, economic empowerment, environmental protection, and social justice, leading to a more sustainable and equitable world for all.
Indigenous community media is essential for Indigenous Peoples’ reclamation and resistance movements worldwide. They contribute to securing respect for individual and collective rights, ensuring access to relevant, contextualized information and content in Indigenous languages, created and transmitted according to the interests, needs, and worldviews of the Indigenous communities they represent.
By Diana Pastor (Maya K'iche', CS Staff)
By Edson Krenak (Krenak, CS Staff)
Kajkoj Maximo Ba Tiul (maya poqomchi')
Yvy Pyte, 11 de octubre de 2023
Comunicamos a la opinión pública nacional e internacional los graves hechos que ponen en riesgo nuestras vidas y nuestros territorios ancestrales que personas ajenas a nuestra comunidad vienen realizando e instamos a las autoridades competentes a tomar las medidas urgentes que correspondan para el resguardo de nuestros derechos como pueblo indígena.
Dear Presidents, Commissioners, and Rapporteur,
We, the undersigned organisations, represent Indigenous Peoples, afro-descendant peoples, and other peoples and communities who share an experience of collective ownership, management and use of our lands, territories and natural resources. Many of us are recognised as human rights, land and environmental defenders for our efforts to protect these lands, territories and resources.
By Gerard Beelt Tiwow (CS intern)
October 11 is International Day of the Girl Child, which presents an opportunity to highlight how Indigenous women and girls are disproportionately affected by human trafficking and sexual exploitation in Nepal.
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.
