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.
The Samburu of Laikipia County in Kenya are facing eviction from their traditional grazing grounds.
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 20th, 2016.
Statement of Ms. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to the General Assembly at its Seventy-First Session under Item 65: Rights of Indigenous Peoples. New York, 17 October 2016.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.
