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. 

Cada uno de los 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) tiene relación con el ejercicio de los derechos de los pueblos Indígenas. La Organización de las Naciones Unidas reconoce que 156 de las 169 metas de los ODS están estrechamente relacionadas con los derechos humanos, mientras que 73 de estas metas están relacionadas en forma significativa con la Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas.

By John McPhaul

Por Allen Perez

Cada cuatro años, Las Naciones Unidas examina el comportamiento de sus Estados miembros en asuntos de derechos humanos a través del Examen Periódico Universal.  Cultural Survival (CS) colabora con dicho ente en materia de los derechos humanos de los Pueblos Indígenas.

By Nati Garcia
 

On October 19-20, 2018, Kankuamo Peoples Authority headed by the Mamos, General Elders Council, Town Council, leaders and members of the communities gathered in Makumake, Kankuamo Territory, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, to release the following statement to the national and international public after the burning of a Kankurwa (ceremonial house) in Atanquez, in events that took place on the night of October 18, 2018:

My name is Ali Gonzalez from the Indigenous Boruca community in the south of Costa Rica. I am a one of Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Community Media Youth Fellows. I had the pleasant experience of participating in the Second Central America Community Radio Network Meeting held in Panajachel, Guatemala.

Organización de Mujeres Indígenas Unidas por la Biodiversidad de Panamá (OMIUB) or “Indigenous Women United for Biodiversity,” is a group founded in 2011 that works to strengthen, develop, and revive Indigenous knowledge in Panama. In 2017 Cultural Survival’s Keepers of the Earth Fund awarded the organization a grant to strengthen  the governance of Kuna, Embera, and Wounaan People by conducting workshops on the newly established law of Consultation and Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC).  

By Patricia Miranda Wattimena
Reposted from World Policy with permission from author.