For 50 years, Cultural Survival has partnered with Indigenous communities to advance Indigenous Peoples' rights and cultures worldwide. In 2012, US-based Cultural Survival, Guatemala-based Associación Sobrevivencia Cultural, and the Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples Clinic at Suffolk University Law School filed Indigenous Maya Kaqchikel Peoples of Sumpango vs. Guatemala, arguing that Guatemala’s telecommunications law excludes Indigenous Peoples from accessing their own forms of media via community radio. This came after Sobrevivencia Cultural in October 2011 submitted an action of unconstitutionality to Guatemala’s Constitutional Court, declaring economic and ethnic discrimination in the State’s mechanism for distribution of radio frequencies. The action argued that by auctioning off frequency licensees to the highest bidder, Indigenous communities, who historically and currently are among the most economically marginalized in the country, lack fair access to state-owned media.
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