Association Sobrevivencia Cultural and the Central American Network of Indigenous Community Radio Stations, in observance of the International Day of Indigenous Peoples, are preparing to hold the Second Central American Meeting of Community Indigenous Radio Stations in Sololá, Guatemala from August 7th to 10th, 2018.

Asociación sobrevivencia cultural y la Red centroamericana de radios comunitarias indígenas, en el marco del día internacional de los pueblos indígenas se prepara para realizar el II Encuentro Centroamericano de Radios Comunitarias Indígenas en Sololá, Guatemala del 7 al 10 de agosto, 2018. Satisfactoriamente recordamos que El primer encuentro se llevó a cabo en la ciudad de Panamá en el año 2016 con la participación de más de 30 Directores y Directoras de radios comunitarias y representantes indígenas de la región.

In May 2018, at the the 95th Session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), Nepal’s human rights record was reviewed under the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

By Nati Garcia

After a week of intense travel in Ecuador from the south of Guayaquil to the north of Imbabura, we finally made it to Cotacachi located in the “hoya” of Ibarra on the divine slopes of Cotacachi stratovolcano in the eastern part of the Andes. Only 20 minutes from Otavalo, Cotacachi has a completely different atmosphere, full of art, music, and peace.Here people have maintained their native language, Kichwa, which in other areas of Ecuador is being forgotten.

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The case of a Indigenous Guatemalan community radio host criminalized for his work is garnering international attention from a coalition of organizations working on freedom of expression, human rights, and Indigenous Peoples' rights. In September of 2015, Oscar Mejía (Maya K’iche) was detained during a raid at community radio station in Chichicastenango, Quiché, Guatemala.  Radio Swan Tinamit, property of the community, promotes the u

ORGANIZACIONES INTERNACIONALES, PRESENTAN AMICUS CURIAE, POR LA VIOLACIÓN DEL DEBIDO PROCESO, EN EL EJERCICIO DE  LA LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN DEL COMUNICADOR INDÍGENA OSCAR MEJIA

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. 

The Red Willow Womyn’s Family Society, Mill Bay, British Columbia, Canada

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Cultural Survival Condemns the Trump Administration’s Policy of Separating Families at the Border
 

The Department of Homeland Security reported on June 15, 2018, that the Trump administration separated 1,995 children from the adults they were traveling with at the U.S. border between April 19 and May 31.