Several Indigenous women's organizations from the Maya, Garífuna and Xinca peoples working with the Tzununijá Movement, have developed a multi-year consultation and collective construction process that has included meetings, conferences and workshops in an effort to produce the Second Shadow Specific Report on Indigenous Women of Guatemala for submission to the Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

Diversas organizaciones de mujeres indígenas de los pueblos Maya, Garífuna y Xinca, aglutinadas en el Movimiento Tzununijá,  han desarrollado un proceso de consulta y construcción colectiva de varios años, que incluye encuentros, reuniones y talleres, para producir el Segundo Informe Sombra Específico referente a Mujeres Indígenas de Guatemala sobre el cumplimiento de la CONVENCIÓN SOBRE LA ELIMINACIÓN DE TODAS LAS FORMAS DE DISCRIMINACIÓN CONTRA LA MUJER –CEDAW-Guatemala, 2017”

After many years of collaborating with and supporting Indigenous artists, Cultural Survival is proud to announce its first Summer Indigenous Artisan Institute that will take place on July 24-July 28, 2017 in the Greater Boston area, thanks to the Paul and Edith Babson Foundation.

As wildfires are raging across four out of six Tsilhqot’in First Nation communities in Canada, the  British Colombia provincial government has quietly authorized drilling permits to Taseko Mines Ltd, mining company who has made multiple failed attempts to launch a gold and copper mine on Tsilhqot’in territory.  

This week marks the 2017 High Level Political Forum at the United Nations in New York, discussing the first year of  implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  The goals are part of an agenda looking towards eradication of poverty other indicators of well being for people and the planet by the year 2030, as an extension to the earlier Millennium Development Goals which concluded in 2015. The High-Level Political Forum is the central platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, and provides for the full and effective participation of all States Members of the United Nations and States members of specialized agencies.

 

The government of Belize submitted a Voluntary National Report on the country’s progress towards realizing the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, to be presented at this week’s High Level Political Forum at the United Nations in New York along with 44 other countries.

 

adio Jënpoj (“winds of fire”) of Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico emerges from a space of reflection on communal life, as well as from the power dynamics and relationships with external institutions.

On July 6, 2017, two of the banks financing the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam construction in Honduras pulled their funding for the project. The European development banks, namely The Netherlands Development Finance Institution and the Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation, had been conducting an international and regional study for many months in order to determine whether or not to withdraw their support. On July 6th, they finalized their decision to cease support, and ultimately concluded that local officials and peoples of Honduras should be the ones to decide how the project continues. The banks said they halted their involvement in the  the controversial dam in response to the attacks against local activists opposing its construction, including the murder of Berta Cáceres.

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Malian drummer Sidy Maiga to perform at Cultural Survival Bazaar in Tiverton
Craft fair features global Indigenous art and cultural exchange

(Listen to their music here!)