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Cultural Survival Bazaar Welcomes Artists Working to Maintain Their Traditions

UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz undertook an official mission to the Republic of Congo at the invitation of the Congolese government on October 14-October 24, 2019 and recently released her final report. The purpose of the mission was to assess progress made in the implementation of Indigenous rights.

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Cultural Survival strongly condemns the ongoing violence against Indigenous Colombians. According to Colombia’s human rights ombudsman, 486 activists and human rights defenders have been murdered since January 2016. A majority of those killed have been Indigenous. 

The National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC) reports that 121 Indigenous people have been murdered since President Duque took office in August 2018. 

Association for the Survival of the Cultural Heritage of the Nyindu Indigenous Peoples (ASPHAN), Democratic Republic of Congo 

The Batwa Nyindu of the Mwenga territory in South Kivu fear that dominant languages are steadily phasing out the Kinyindu language, and with it the Nyindu identity.

Por Sócrates Vásquez García

“Desde la Patagonia hasta Alaska, los comunicadores Indígenas nos hemos autoconvocado como comunicadores Indígenas para decirle al mundo que estamos aquí en, existimos como pueblos.”

Por Teresita Orozco

En Wangki Awala Kupia, Municipio de Waspam, Región de la Costa Caribe Norte de Nicaragua tuvo lugar el Onceavo Encuentro de mujeres Indígenas del Wanki, reuniendo a más de mil mujeres Miskitas que durante 4 días participaron activamente en una variada agenda.

By Sócrates Vásquez García

"From Patagonia to Alaska, Indigenous communicators have called ourselves as Indigenous communicators to tell the world that we are here, we exist as Peoples."

By Teresita Orozco

In Wangki Awala Kupia, Waspam municipality, in the north Caribbean coastal region of Nicaragua, the Eleventh Meeting of Wanki Indigenous Women took place, bringing together more than one thousand Miskita women for four days on October 19-22, 2019.

The Global Investigative Journalism Conference is an event that is held every other year at different venues around the world, organized by Global Investigative Journalism Network, Netzwerk Recherche, and Interlink Academy. This year’s event, on September 26-29, 2019,  saw over 1700 journalists descend upon the port city of Hamburg, Germany.

By Dev Kumar Sunuwar
 

The first ever Ainu Indigenous food festival, Indigenous Terra Madre Asia and Pan Pacific, was held October 11-14, 2019, in Ainu Moshir, the land of the Ainu Peoples in Hokkaido, Japan. Hosted by the Ainu Women’s Association, Menoko Mosmos, in collaboration with Slow Food Nippon, Slow Food and the Indigenous Terra Madre Network, the event was held to commemorate World Food Day. The first Indigenous Terra Madre was held in Jokkmokk, Sweden, the land of the Sami Peoples in 2011, then was followed by an event in Shillong, India, in 2015.