By Aljoscha Karg
By Laura R. Graham, with collaboration from Edson Krenak Naknanuk
El proyecto de comunicación Tuklik, conformado por los ámbitos de la producción y difusión de programas de audio para radio, y la producción y proyección de videos, se desarrolla en seis comunidades de tres municipios ubicados en la región sur y oriente de Yucatán: Mayapán, Cantamayec y Tahdziú. Para ubicarles, nos permitimos decir que el estado de Yucatán tiene 106 municipios, según el gobierno de Yucatán agrupados en siete regiones: poniente, noroeste, centro, litoral centro, noreste, oriente y sur.
Por Alejandro Ramiro Chan
By Alejandro Ramiro Chan
On March 12-13, 2020, in La Esperanza, Intibucá, Honduras, 11 Lenca women from radio stations in 7 different communities gathered for two-day workshops on community radio communication with a focus on gender equity organized by Cultural Survival, the Red de Desarrollo Sostenible Honduras (RDS), the Association of Community Media of Honduras (AMCH), and the Central American Network of Indigenous Community Radio Stations.
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar
When Victoria Tauli-Corpuz was appointed to the mandate of UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in May 2014, she perhaps thought that it would be smooth going, reporting on the situation of the world’s Indigenous Peoples and then drawing relevant conclusions. But after a six-year appointment as special rapporteur, according to her, the mandate is “an uphill battle.”
Since 1970, every year on April 22, people across the globe join together to celebrate Mother Earth. In 2009, the UN General Assembly proclaimed April 22 as International Mother Earth Day . For many Indigenous Peoples, we celebrate this gratitude every day. "As our bodies originated of her, we properly regard her as our Earth Mother. Her life is our life.
El 3 de abril de 2020, la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) remitió un caso relacionado con el derecho de los Pueblos Indígenas a la libertad de expresión por radio comunitaria en Guatemala ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. El caso, presentado originalmente en el 2012 por Cultural Survival con sede en EE.
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On April 22-24, 2020, Native rock musician Robby Romero (Apache) will be one of the headliners of Mother Earth Day Live, a three-day livestream commemorating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, to be held this year as part of efforts to promote social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.