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Kenya Forest Service (KFS) guards are burning down hundreds of homes and evicting Indigenous Sengwer Communities in Embobut Forest
15 May 2024
On 14th May, 2024, the Sengwer Council of Elders released a press statement calling on the Kenyan government and foreign don
Information Note: The Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill
08 May 2024
The Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill sets out some core building blocks for a fit-for-purpose corporate accountability law in the UK.
The UK’s House of Lords is set to debate a Bill that holds companies to account for human rights and environmental harms and facilitates access to justice
08 May 2024
On 10 May, the House of Lords will debate The Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill (COPAD Bill).
For the Protection of Forests and Human Rights in the Peruvian Amazon: In Rejection of Abuse, Deforestation, and Corporate Impunity
24 Apr 2024
Originally published on us.eia.org
Understanding gender-based violence in the context of conservation
23 Apr 2024
This paper is number 4 of the briefing series Transforming Conservation: from conflict to justice.
Community Rights and Climate Change: What Future Do We Want
08 Apr 2024
Read the summary of the report in English,
IACHR grants precautionary measures to families of the Kichwa community of Santa Rosillo de Yanayaku
28 Mar 2024
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted precautionary measures to families from the Kichwa Indigenous community of Santa Rosillo de Yanayaku in the San Martin region of Peru, considering their situation serious and urgent, as their rights to life and personal integrity are at risk of irreparable harm.
German Government's Development Assistance and the Indigenous Peoples of Indonesian Borneo
26 Mar 2024
Read the policy briefing in English and
Forest Peoples Programme response to the smear and defamation campaign against IDL and FPP for their solidarity in the case of Santa Clara de Uchunya vs Ocho Sur in Peru
21 Mar 2024
Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) strongly rejects the defamatory and false information that has been spread by the palm oil company Ocho Sur and subsequently by the Peruvian media about our organisation and our Peruvian partner organisation, the Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL).
Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples alert IACHR to human rights and territorial violations by carbon markets in Latin America
20 Mar 2024
On 28 February 2024, leaders of Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples and civil society representatives from Peru, Colombia, Guyana and Brazil participated in a thematic hearing organised by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR or Commission) to highlight violations of their rights and collective territorie
ART’s Controversial Certification of Carbon Credits to the Government of Guyana: A Case Study on Challenges for “High-Integrity” Labels in Carbon Markets
29 Feb 2024
First published on apaguyana.com
The voluntary carbon market has come under intense scrutiny over conc
Ocho Sur oil palm plantation in Peru challenged by UN experts for violations of Indigenous rights and environmental damage
22 Feb 2024
Following a complaint by members of the Santa Clara de Uchunya community of the Shipibo-Konibo people, UN experts on business and human rights, Indigenous peoples, environment, defenders, and water and sanitation express concerns about the operations of the Ocho Sur oil palm company in Ucayali in the Peruvian Amazon in form
Statement: Wampis Nation Faces Massive Illegal Mining Invasion and Attack
21 Feb 2024
Originally published in Spanish by the Wampis Nation on 16 February 2024
UK parliamentary committee report on deforestation: Key takeaways on indigenous and forest peoples’ human rights
20 Feb 2024
The UK parliamentarian Environmental Audit Committee (‘the Committee’) recently published a report on the UK’s contribution and current approach to tackling global tropical deforestation.
Indonesian Civil Society Organizations Sound Alarm on FSC's Remedy Framework Implementation
15 Feb 2024
A coalition of twelve concerned Indonesian Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Forest Peoples Programme has sounded the alarm on the implementation of the Forest Stewardship Council's (FSC) new Remedy Framework to redress the social harms associated with the giant pulp and paper companies, APRIL and APP.
“The Jackals of Santa Rosillo” and the Murder of Apu Quinto Inuma: A Death That Could Have Been Prevented
06 Feb 2024
65 days after the murder of Quinto Inuma Alvarado, apu of the Indigenous Kichwa community of Santa Rosillo de Yanayacu, the main suspects involved in the fateful event have been arrested in a joint effort between the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Peruvian National Police, following constant advocacy by relatives