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.

Kanahus Manuel held for hours without proper medical attention for wrist injured in arrest

For Immediate Release: October 21, 2019

(Unceded Secwepemc Territory / Blue River, BC) – At 9 a.m. on October 19, 2019 Kanahus Manuel and Isha Jules of Tiny House Warriors were arrested on Highway 5. They had stopped to tell construction workers they had no Secwepemc consent to flag in preparation for roadwork. Police arrived on the scene and within minutes arrested Manuel and Jules for the crime of “bugging.”

“The government of the U.S. has repeatedly failed to protect the human rights of the Gwich'in"

New York, NY -- In a submission sent on October 3 to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Indigenous rights groups raised concerns about human rights violations against the Gwich’in Nation as a result of the Trump administration’s push to sell off the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling. 

It has been three months since the construction of the 30-meter observatory was planned to begin on the Mauna Kea summit and has since been blockaded by the mobilization of Indigenous Hawaiian and allied peoples to protect the right to maintain their practices that would be jeopardized by the observatory.