La posición de la Relatoría Especial de la ONU sobre la situación de los Defensores de Derechos Humanos es bien conocida por activistas de todo el mundo.

In Gordon, Nebraska, a small border town on the grassy expanse of the northern Great Plains, there is a gravestone in the town’s cemetery etched with one word: “Unknown.” It rests on the grave of an Indigenous woman whose body was found underneath a stone bridge in 1970 and, like many Native women before and after her, was never identified. 

People of Red Mountain (PRM), is an Indigenous grassroots organization that was formed to protect the sacred site, Peehee Mu’huh – Thacker Pass. People of Red Mountain has raised significant and urgent concerns regarding human, religious, and Indigenous Peoples' rights violations by the proposed mine.

“After many years of paralysis of Indigenous land demarcation and rights violations (by former governments), we are now back to having our rights recognized, our lives valued, and our territories defined,” said Brazil’s first Indigenous State Minister, Sonia Guajajara, in a social media post. 

Standing in the hills overlooking the coast of England’s Plymouth Harbor, in the distance, a group of Wampanoag has gathered in a Bronze Age stone circle. It is small and humble compared to its cousin to the east, the famous Stonehenge, but it is intimate and well suited for our needs. About 10 meters in diameter, the stones stand only 3 or 4 feet in height, but unlike its famous cousin, this circle is nearly forgotten. When we arrived, we see the only visitor is a grazing cow.

Every year, on May 3, we celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom.

Del 19 al 21 de abril de 2023 tuvo lugar en Buenos Aires, Argentina, la segunda Conferencia de las Partes del Acuerdo de Escazú. El Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe, mejor conocido como el Acuerdo de Escazú, es el primer tratado medioambiental regional que es vinculante.

Del 17 al 28 de abril de 2023 se llevó a cabo la 22ª sesión del Foro Permanente de las Naciones Unidas para las Cuestiones Indígenas (UNPFII). El tema de la sesión de este año se centró en "Pueblos indígenas, salud humana, salud planetaria y territorial y cambio climático: un enfoque basado en derechos".

Indigenous economies around the world thrived before European contact. Our robust trade networks connected Tribes and the goods we produced, and people from all over the world gathered in what are now some of today’s modern cities to trade many valuable items. Our ancient highways, i.e., waterways (oceans, bays, rivers, lakes, and tributaries), connected Tribal communities all over the world.

Cultural Survival congratulates Alessandra Korap Munduruku (Munduruku) and her community on winning the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2023 for her tireless efforts to defend her community and territory against extractive industries.