Human Rights

Lee más sobre Ortega Re-elected for Third Term: Indigenous Peoples in Nicaragua Demand Respect for International Indigenous Rights

Daniel Ortega will continue in his third consecutive term as President of Nicaragua after being reelected on November 6, 2016, this time accompanied by his wife, Rosario Murillo, as his Vice-President.

Lee más sobre Cultural Survival’s Community Media Grants Project Announces First Recipient, Radio Xyaab’ Tzuul Taq’a

Cultural Survival and Toronto based WACC are pleased to announce the first grantee of our Indigenous Community Radio Grants Project partnership. A new radio start up, Radio Xyaab’ Tzuul Taq’a (“Voice of the Mountains” in Q’eqchi) of the Maya Q’eqchi community in El Estor, Guatemala was chosen because of the immediate need to strengthen broadcast infrastructure and systems, and the start up’s promise for continued success.

Lee más sobre Indigenous Rights on the Airwaves: December 10th is Human Rights Day

December 10th, 2016 will mark the 68th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN General Assembly. Let's send a message that the struggle for the implementation of the standards proposed in the Declaration of Human Rights continues today in many corners of the world, especially in Indigenous communities, by airing this free series of programs that provides information on how Indigenous people can use UN mechanisms to defend their rights.

Lee más sobre Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Statement on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Decision to Not Grant Easement

The department of the Army will not approve an easement that will allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe. The following statement was released by Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II.

Lee más sobre Samburu Communities in Laikipia, Kenya, Face Threat of Eviction

The Samburu of Laikipia County in Kenya are facing eviction from their traditional grazing grounds.

Lee más sobre Global Call on Banks to Halt Loan to Dakota Access Pipeline

Over 400 civil society organisations from more than 50 countries today issued a joint open letter to the seventeen banks providing a US$2.5 billion project loan to Dakota Access LLC. The letter, endorsed by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, demands that the banks involved immediately halt all further disbursements of the loan and require the project sponsor to stop construction work until all outstanding issues are resolved to the full satisfaction of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The letter and the full list of signatories can be found below.

Lee más sobre Criminalization Continues in Huehuetenango

On Wednesday, October 26, 2016, another human rights defender was arrested in Guatemala. Domingo Francisco Cristobal was captured on his way home from a peaceful demonstration in the city of Huehuetenango by members of the Special Investigative Crime Division of the Guatemalan police. Traditional Indigenous community leaders, as part of the Plurinational Ancestral Government of the Akateko, Chuj, Popti’ and Q’anjobal Maya Nations, denounced the arrest in a press release.

Lee más sobre Cultural Survival Condemns the Assassination of Guatemalan Human Rights Defender

Cultural Survival condemns the assassination of Guatemalan human rights defender Jeremy Abraham Barrios Lima on 12 November, 2016.

Lee más sobre Cultural Survival Strongly Condemns Excessive Force Used on Standing Rock Water Protectors

Cultural Survival strongly condemns the recent attacks by the State of North Dakota and Morton County Sheriff’s Department in response to the Standing Rock Water Protectors direct action during the evening hours of November 20^th, 2016.

Lee más sobre The International Indigenous Peoples` Forum on Climate Change Condemns the Construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline

The International Indigenous Peoples` Forum on Climate Change Condemns the Construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Lee más sobre Human Rights Observer Report on Mission to Standing Rock Sioux Reservation

This report was submitted by Roberto Borrero representing the International Indian Treaty Council, non-Governmental Organization in General Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, traveling as a Human Rights Observer and in support of Grand Chief Edward John, UN Expert Member, Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, about their mission to Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and the Oceti Sakowin (“Seven Council Fires”) Camp on October 29 – 31, 2016.

Lee más sobre UN Expert Releases Report on Conditions Surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline

In response to an October 28, 2016 letter of invitation to me as an Expert Member of the UNPFII from Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman, David Archambault, Chief Edward John, Expert Member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, traveled from my community to North Dakota to see, firsthand, the conditions that he, his peoples and those from other communities have been facing in relation to the clearing of the right of way and subsequent construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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