Por Teresita Orozco (CS STAFF)
Por Teresita Orozco (CS STAFF)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Contact: Bernadette Demientieff,
bernadette@
By Teresita Orozco (CS STAFF)
On December 17, 2020, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres appointed Pablo Mis, Maya Q’eqchi’ from Laguna Village, Toledo District, Belize, to the Advisory Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples. This is the first time that an Indigenous representative from Belize is appointed to the Board of the Fund.
Cultural Survival anuncia el financiamiento otorgado a cinco radios comunitarias Indígenas y organizaciones de mujeres para la adquisición de equipo transmisor y/o complementario para radios en México, Guatemala y Perú en el año 2020 como parte del proyecto de Subvenciones a Radios Comunitarias Indígenas. El total otorgado fue de $20,000.
Cultural Survival’s Community Media Grants Project announces five 2020 grants, totalling $20,000, awarded to Indigenous community radio stations and women’s organizations for the acquisition of transmitters and/or complementary equipment in Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru.
On December 17, 2020, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres appointed Dev Kumar Sunuwar, staff member at Cultural Survival, as a member of the Advisory Board of Trustees of the UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples. Sunuwar has been selected as a representative of Indigenous Peoples from the Asia-Pacific region to advise the UN General Secretary on the use of the Fund for a three-year tenure, from January 2021 until December 2023.
In October 2019, Cultural Survival submitted a report on the state of Indigenous human rights in the United States as part of the 36th Session of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review, a process by which UN member States have the opportunity to review fellow States’ human rights records and make recommendations.
By Avexnim Cojti (CS Staff)
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.