Después de más de cuatro años de encarcelamiento arbitrario por su defensa de los derechos humanos y derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas, Kenia Hernández, lideresa y abogada amuzga de Xochistlahuaca, Guerrero, México, se encuentra ahora ante la posibilidad de ser liberada.
By Lucas Kasosi (Maasai, CS Intern)
If you ever find yourself in a remote Samburu village at night, you might stumble upon a scene that feels straight out of a centuries-old tradition women huddled around a bonfire, their voices rising and falling in conversation as the fire flickers against their beadwork and shukas.
Por Brandi Morin (Cree/Iroquois). Fotos por Ian Willms
En todo el mundo, las explotaciones mineras han agravado la pobreza de las comunidades indígenas y destruido sus medios de vida tradicionales, dejando tras de sí una devastación medioambiental.
By Hartman Deetz (Mashpee Wampanoag)
By Human Rights Watch and ACLU
(Washington D.C., February 6, 2025) – The United States government’s decision to permit Lithium Americas to mine at Thacker Pass in Nevada violated Indigenous people’s rights, Human Rights Watch and the ACLU said in a report released today. The 18,000-acre mining project is under construction and will extract lithium from one of the world’s largest known deposits.
By Press Release by Native American Rights Fund
(WASHINGTON D.C., 2/2/2025)—A coalition of Tribal organizations, representing Tribal Nations and their citizens and communities, is calling on the Administration to ensure that recent executive actions do not undermine the unique sovereign political status of Tribal Nations as sovereign nations with which the federal government has trust and treaty obligations, or disrupt federal funding that flows from those relationships for essential Tribal programs.
Cultural Survival strongly condemns the violent attack on Indigenous students and Indigenous Peoples’ rights activists’ protests on January 15, 2025, against the removal of the term "Adivasi" (Indigenous in Bangla) from school textbooks in Bangladesh.
Ven a aprender sobre los mecanismos internacionales de derechos humanos, incluyendo la Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas y el Examen Periódico Universal (EPU), y cómo pueden ayudar en tus esfuerzos de defensa y presionar al gobierno de los EE. UU., tanto a nivel local como nacional, para que respete los derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas.
By John McPhaul
Faced with President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations, two Miskitu Indigenous leaders are part of a Nicaraguan delegation asking the United States government to let Nicaraguans who are in the U.S. in exile stay with an extension of Temporary Protection Status (TPS) due to the human rights abuses meted out by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murrillo.
By Ellen Moore. Reposted from Earthworks.
Reconocimiento de tierra
Reconocemos que nuestra sede está en la tierra de Massachusetts, en Cambridge, MA, y agradecemos a los administradores Indígenas pasados, actuales y futuros de este territorio.