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Every year, on December 1st, the international community observes a day that is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic.
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Photo: Community members gather outside of police station in Totonicapan, Guatemala. Credit: FGER
On November 12, 2018, two Maya K’iche’ women communicators were arrested in Totonicapan, Guatemala, a department in which the vast majority of the population is Indigenous K’iche’ Maya.
Cultural Survival aims to strengthen Indigenous women radio journalists’ leadership and improve their participation in decision-making spaces. Three years ago, we initiated a project "for a more visible world in an invisible world", a process of capacity building and accompaniment in community radio journalism with an intercultural approach to gender adapted to the reality of Central America. In late 2018, we extended the project to Colombia and Mexico.
Consejo Consultivo Internacional de Jóvenes Indígenas
Introducción
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (CS STAFF)
"I am not scared. As a Zápara woman, I will fight for my territory." -- Nema Grefa Ushigua, president of the Zápara Nation, after receiving threats in April.
Zyania Roxana Santiago Aguilar (Zapotec), seventeen, is one of Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Community Media Youth Fellows from Radio Calenda, La Voz de Valle in Oaxaca, México (pictured above in center). Zyania was only three years old when she began at Radio Calenda, leading the creation of children’s program until she was 12. In 2007, she won second place in the "AMARC-60" anniversary contest.
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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.
