Indigenous Media Zone: Voices at the UN
The Indigenous Media Zone (IMZ) at the UNPFII, April 21-25, 2025, empowers Indigenous media to report on Indigenous issues from their perspectives, amplifying their voices and promoting Indigenous languages.
Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Are Non-Negotiable: 22 Calls to Action for the Trump Administration on Presidentsâ Day
Establishing a commission to reexamine treaties signed with Tribal Nations and find ways they can be honored and implemented in todayâs circumstances by operationalizing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including upholding Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in all department consultation practices.
The Answer Is Us! : Brazilian Indigenous Movement Demands Bold Climate Action from G20 Leaders
With a powerful symbolic protest, the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) held a peaceful demonstration in Rio de Janeiro on November 16, 2024, to condemn the inaction of the worldâs wealthiest and most polluting nations in tackling the global climate crisis.
Position Statement on Banks’ Responsibilities Regarding Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Biodiversity
Such commitments must be memorialized in robust policies, implemented in a way that truly monitors and protects the rights of Environmental Defenders affected by bank-financed activities, in line with Target 22 of the GBF, which aims to ensure access to justice, among other things, related to biodiversity by Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
Implementing Target 15 of the KM-GBF: Challenges and Opportunities for Indigenous Rights, Biodiversity, and the Energy Transition
When the right to FPIC is respected and operationalized to minimum standards articulated in the UNDRIP, Indigenous Peoplesâ have full participation in projects that impact them and decision-making authority to protect their lands, cultures, and ecosystems.
People donât like a âwhite saviourâ, but does it affect how they donate to charity?
MĂ©decins Sans FrontiĂšres (MSF), for instance, released a video apologising for using photos depicting white people in aid settings and which arenât representative of the majority local staff they employ.
Awakening through the Kichwa Language
âI didnât know my grand-parents and I always felt a lack of them in my life, so seeing these elderly people on the street and not being able to help them touched me because I couldnât speak our language.â Although Anrangoâs parents dressed her in traditional clothing from the time she was born, as a child they only communicated with her in Spanish, something she would later come to question.
Top Wins for Indigenous Peoples in 2023-2024
Following centuries of violence, racism, and conquest by colonial missions, rubber companies, and State governments, the court's acknowledgment of the Siekopai as the rightful owners of PĂ«âkĂ«ya is a crucial step toward their legal battle of restoring justice, ensuring collective survival, and preserving cultural heritage.
A Call to Action on Int’l Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
At Cultural Survival, we are working around the world and around the clock to support the priorities of Indigenous Nations and communities that are protecting Mother Earth for generations to come and for the millions of people, plant, animal, and mineral relatives that share our homelands.
Undermining Indigenous Peoplesâ Rights: The Ongoing Struggle for Recognition in UN Environmental Agreements
While UNEPâs Civil Society Unit offers a path for participation, the accreditation process is lengthy and bureaucratic, taking 90 days (about 3 months) and requiring extensive documentation to prove legal and non-profit status.
International Committee of Indigenous Peoples of Russia EMRIP Statement
By selling it, the country earns billions of dollars to wage wars, to maintain a high level in the capital, to generously feed the power structures and keep the oligarch class and the elite loyal.
Get to Know Cultural Survivalâs New Executive Director
Throughout her career, Aimee has provided leadership to partnerships focused on environmental stewardship, co-creating a vision, integrating cultural values and ecological knowledge with science for meaningful decision-making, and implementing shared strategies in caring for people, wildlife, water, and ecosystems.