Consejo Consultivo Internacional de Jóvenes Indígenas

Introducción

By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (CS STAFF)

"I am not scared. As a Zápara woman, I will fight for my territory."  -- Nema Grefa Ushigua, president of the Zápara Nation, after receiving threats in April.
 

Zyania Roxana Santiago Aguilar (Zapotec), seventeen, is one of Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Community Media Youth Fellows from Radio Calenda, La Voz de Valle in Oaxaca, México (pictured above in center). Zyania was only three years old when she began at Radio Calenda, leading the creation of children’s program until she was 12. In 2007, she won second place in the "AMARC-60" anniversary contest.

                                                                                                  En español 
 

Imagine communities where every youth flourishes. We cannot foresee the future but we do know that when Indigenous youth are supported in cultivating their creativity, true potential is unlocked. Cultural Survival is pleased to announce our 2019 Indigenous Youth Community Media Fellows, as part of the Community Media Grants Program.

Sócrates Vásquez García (Ayuujk Jääy, Pueblo Ayuujk) joins Cultural Survival as Community Media Grants Coordinator. 

By Joan Tavares Avant

“The notable veterans who have died should be genuinely remembered and celebrated. The ones who are blessed enough to be alive and or return home as wounded warriors should be cared for forever. Their spirit was given to uphold this country’s freedom and yours. Those who are walking around may look well, but many are not. There’s a lot this country should do for those past and present.”-- Chief Sachem Vernon “Silent Drum“ Lopez

Migrants and asylum seekers are protected by international human rights, refugee, and humanitarian law. We believe that all people should be treated with dignity and respect, no matter what their country of citizenship, their country of residence, their legal status, ethnicity, or their economic conditions. International human rights law was created to protect the most vulnerable populations, and the United States has a moral and legal obligation to uphold those standards and to treat with dignity any human beings fleeing conditions of violence and economic injustice.

By Patricia Wattimena 

We will not be left behind! Indigenous people stand up against exclusion.