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Cultural Survival, Inc.

Cultural Survival is a global leader in the fight to protect indigenous lands, languages, and cultures around the world. In partnership with indigenous peoples, we advocate for native communities whose rights, cultures, and dignity are under threat. Before the day is over, an indigenous person will be displaced or killed. Before the month is over, an indigenous homeland will be clear-cut, strip-mined, or flooded. Before the year is over, dozens of indigenous languages will vanish forever. Governments and powerful economic interests perpetrate this human and cultural devastation. Cultural Survival works to prevent it. We partner with indigenous peoples to strengthen their languages and cultures, educate their communities about their rights, and fight marginalization, discrimination, exploitation, and abuse.

Primary web addresses
http://www.culturalsurvival.org
Main Address
215 Prospect St.
Cambridge MA 02139
Country
United States
Main Telephone
(617) 441-5400
Joined OneWorld
08/14/2006

Features
A Kenyan Maasai woman.
05/02/2008 Once one of the few Maasai girls able to attend school and now the chairperson of a leading coalition of indigenous peoples' organizations in Africa, Mary Simat embodies the changing gender norms of the Kenyan Maasai community.
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Related: [Kenya]
Image: A Kenyan Maasai woman. © Women Thrive Worldwide
04/30/2008 The indigenous Ayoreo peoples of Bolivia and Paraguay are increasingly forced out of the wilderness by ecological destruction only to confront a new brand of isolation from their ancestral way of life.
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Related: [Paraguay] [Bolivia]
At a refugee camp for Karen people, an indigenous group in Burma.
04/24/2008 The Burmese military's reign of terror -- which has displaced 2 million citizens -- has particularly targeted indigenous people, forcing them to flee their homes to escape compulsory labor, rape, and starvation. [Warning, this photoessay contains graphic images that some may find disturbing.]
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Related: [Myanmar]
Image: At a refugee camp for Karen people, an indigenous group in Burma. © Atti-la (flickr)



 
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