6 Things to Do on International Indigenous Women’s Day

On October 26, 2022, the Committee on the Removal of Discrimination against Females (CEDAW) took on the long-awaited General Suggestion No. 39 on the Civil Liberties of Indigenous Ladies and Ladies. General Referral No. 39 consists of the first language in a binding worldwide treaty focused on the rights of Native Females and Women. Find out more.

Flexibility of the Press Is the Foundation of Justice
Francine Compton (Anishinaabe), Affiliate Supervisor of the Native American Reporters Association, talks with Cultural Survival about exactly how press liberty is of significant concern to Aboriginal journalists.

Today is likewise International Day of Charity observed each year on September 5 as declared by the United Nations General Setting Up in 2012, we hope we can depend on you! For virtually five years, Cultural Survival has actually prioritized jobs centering Interesting ladies and native females’s and girls’ management. An investment in Social Survival is an investment in Aboriginal women’s and ladies’ management internationally!

Aimee Roberson (Choctaw and Chickasaw), Social Survival Exec Supervisor, claims, “On International Indigenous Women’s Day and every day, we honor and celebrate Indigenous females and the crucial roles they meet, including bringing forth life, continuously caring for our areas, and keeping our lifeways and languages to life. Stand with us in solidarity, and join us in honoring, boosting, and resourcing Indigenous women’s management, so that following year we will have also a lot more to commemorate!”

September 5 is the International Day of Indigenous Female memorialized in honor of Aymara warrior Bartolina Sisa, who in 1780, together with her hubby Túpac Katari, led an important part of the Aymara-Quechua rebellion versus the exploitation and misuse of Spanish colonizers in Peru.