San Diegans for the Legalization of Indigenous Languages

10/24/2025

Happy ! Today, we celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ journey at the UN, their active participation and global advocacy!

Indigenous Peoples’ participation at the UN has marked a vital shift towards greater recognition and inclusion of their rights and amplifying their voices at the international level. Landmark achievements include the adoption of , the establishment of and .

The full and effective involvement and participation of Indigenous Peoples at the UN is crucial for advancing their rights!

Photo: Ines Belchior / Ronja Porho | IPDB UNDESA

10/22/2025

🌍✨ Passionate about language revitalization? The Endangered Language Fund (ELF) and UNESCO are offering another traineeship opportunity for individuals dedicated to safeguarding linguistic diversity.

🔹 Application deadline: November 10, 2025
🔹 Gain hands-on experience in language documentation, revitalization, and policy development.

📚 Don’t miss this chance to make a global impact!

10/22/2025

Friday at 8am Hawaii - join ELP and the Language Documentation Training Center for the fourth session of the 2025 Language Documentation Learning Series!⁠
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This week, Cole Flottman from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa will be leading a session on how you can start documenting your language's phonology (sounds) and thinking about how that relates to orthography (writing systems) - don't worry, that may sound like some intimidating academic jargon, but we'll start from the beginning! ⁠
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This will be a fun, simple introduction to how you can look deeper into the sounds of your language, how writing systems are built, and how you can use this knowledge to support your documentation work. You don't need any previous experience in linguistics.⁠
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Register at: http://bit.ly/langdoc2025 If you’ve already registered, you can use the same Zoom link as last week. ⁠
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See you there!⁠
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08/15/2025

📈En Perú, la criminalización de quienes defienden la vida y el territorio sigue en aumento.

📊 Según la Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos, en los últimos 24 años se registraron 733 casos de criminalización contra defensores de derechos humanos, ambientales e indígenas.
🏹 Los líderes indígenas comportan 293 casos.

💬“Reclamamos porque matan nuestros animales y contaminan. Por eso nos han denunciado”, cuenta una lideresa de Urinsaya, Espinar (Cusco), que junto a otros nueve defensores enfrenta un proceso por protestar contra una minera.

Lee más: https://tinyurl.com/46v8b3nc

11/09/2024

11/02/2024

It was with great pain, sadness and indignation that we learned of the murder of Tzotzil Father Marcelo Perez Perez Perez as he left Mass on Sunday morning, October 20, in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, in southeastern Mexico. The murder of Father Marcelo, a renowned indigenous priest and huma...

11/02/2024

To avoid climate catastrophe, renewable energy capacity must triple in the next six years. The private sector plays a critical role in this energy transition – as do Indigenous Peoples. If the opportunity of a just transition is to be realised, private sector and state commitment to Indigenous Peo...

10/17/2024

The 1776 Declaration of Independence that led to the formation of the United States listed ‘unalienable Rights’ that included ‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness’. However, the same document demonised Indigenous peoples, calling them ‘merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions’. The new U.S. government, despite calling for freedom of religion and speech in its Constitution, set about undermining Indigenous lives, liberty, and happiness by expropriating their lands and forcing them westward.

Jon Reyhner, from Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights (2022)

09/28/2024

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119753926

A groundbreaking new work that sheds light on case studies of linguistic human rights around the world, raising much-needed awareness of the struggles of many peoples and communities The first book of its kind, the Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights presents a diverse range of theoretically grounde...

10/22/2022

Californians, please vote YES on Prop 26 and No on Prop 27.

10/20/2022

Movie illustrates Yupʻik familyʻs need to move due to global warming induced sea level rise.

Water will erase Newtok, Alaska. To keep their culture and community intact, the Yup’ik residents must relocate their entire village upriver while battling g...

10/04/2022

Addressing historical trauma and healing in Indigenous language cultivation and revitalization - Volume 42