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Towards a decade of action for indigenous languagues: ‘I’ve spent my whole life promoting our cultural heritage, our...
From Her Past Comes the Drive to Help Other Indigenous Women
St. John’s Climate Lecture Highlights Challenges Faced by Indigenous People of Peru
Four indigenous women who are claiming their space
“The educational system must value, recover, document, and project Indigenous knowledge”
From resistance to planetary governance, Indigenous women redefine global climate action
In the words of Tarcila Rivera Zea: “My parents, illiterate as they were, pushed to learn more”
I brought to light the cases of women coming out of prison with children of rapes they had endured while in prison. None of these women knew...
Towards a decade of action for indigenous languagues: ‘I’ve spent my whole life promoting our cultural heritage, our...
Tarcila Rivera Zea is a Peruvian indigenous rights activist. She grew up speaking Quechua and only learnt Spanish at the age of 10 when she started attending...
From Her Past Comes the Drive to Help Other Indigenous Women
Tarcila Rivera-Zea, a member of the Quechua community in Peru, has spent decades pushing for Native peoples to be heard.
St. John’s Climate Lecture Highlights Challenges Faced by Indigenous People of Peru
In few places have the local population been as active in pushing back against environmental change as in the mountainous areas of Peru and...
Four indigenous women who are claiming their space
Indigenous peoples live across 90 countries, represent 5,000 different communities and speak a majority of the worlds languages.
“The educational system must value, recover, document, and project Indigenous knowledge”
Interview with Tarcila Rivera Zea, Member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning and President of the Centre...
From resistance to planetary governance, Indigenous women redefine global climate action
While world leaders negotiate behind closed doors in the Blue Zone of COP30, Indigenous Women from across the planet are demonstrating that...
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Quechua human rights activist and founder of the Andean indigenous organization CHIRAPAQ (Centro de Culturas Indígenas del Perú); long-time advocate for indigenous women's and cultural rights at national and international levels.