By Ulia Gosart

Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) remains among the most controversial regulatory mechanisms created to manage professional economic and social relationships between Indigenous communities and external parties.

Photo:  CODECA members march to Guatemala City from their communities to march on June 12, 2018. By @GtCodeca on Twitter. 

In the past weeks, three human rights defenders from the Campesino Development Committee have been killed, totaling seven fatal attacks on human rights defenders in Guatemala over the past four weeks.
 

Photograph of Musa Usman Ndamba by CIF Action UNPFII_20 on Flickr.

By Evan Klasky

Amnesty International’s 2017/2018 report on The State of the World’s Human Rights, released on February 22, 2018, outlines major issues facing Indigenous Peoples, including violence, land conflicts, insufficient health care, legal abuse, repression of freedoms, and criminalization.

By Emma Himmelberger

En inglés

Claudia Patricia Gómez González fue asesinada a tiros por la patrulla fronteriza después de cruzar la frontera en Laredo, Texas, el 23 de mayo de 2018. El agente de la patrulla fronteriza que disparó e hirió fatalmente a Gómez González permanece en licencia administrativa.

CS50: Celebrating 5 Decades of Indigenous Rights and Resilience

Cultural Survival is approaching our 50th anniversary in 2022! We have launched a new annual Giving Day, culminating on June 1, our founding date. We are celebrating five decades of work supporting Indigenous Peoples’ rights and resilience and want to personally thank our donors who have made this work possible.
 

En Español 

Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez was shot and killed by border patrol after crossing the border in Laredo, Texas on May 23, 2018. The border patrol agent who fired the shot fatally wounding Gomez Gonzalez remains on administrative leave.