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The Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights is a worldwide campaign with the aim to double the area of land recognised as owned or controlled by indigenous peoples and local communities by 2020.

Bonn, Germany, 17 October 2015 Key demands RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES AND ACTIONS

Indigenous peoples' caucus calls on government parties negotiating the Paris Climate Agreement under the UN Climate Convention to secure collective land rights, respect FPIC and recognise the positive contribution of indigenous peoples' customary land management systems to climate change mitigation and adaptation.Access the Statement: International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) statement to ADP, Bonn, June 2015

Next week Forest Peoples Programme and Tebtebba invite you to the roundtable:Deforestation, climate finance and the rights of indigenous peoples: the cases of DRC and the Green Climate FundDAY: Mon, 08 Jun 2015TIME: 13:15-14:45PLACE: Bonn Climate Change Conference June 2015, Room Bonn II (40)

Déforestation, financement climat et les droits des peuples autochtones : les cas de la RDC et du Fonds vert pour le climatDATE : lundi 8 juin 2015HEURE : 13h15-14h45LIEU : Conférence de Bonn sur le changement climatique, juin 2015, salle Bonn II (40)

In a statement published in a national newspaper, the council of AIDESEP, which represents over 1800 communities in the Peruvian Amazon called for the repeal and shelving of recent legal reforms being pushed through Peru’s parliament that threaten to further weaken indigenous peoples’ rights to land in favour of development projects.

In an article published in the Jakarta Post, senior officials of the Indonesian REDD+ Agency (the government body charged with reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) argue that recognising the collective land rights of forest peoples is key to curbing climate change and promoting sustainable use of natural resources.

COP20). Lima, Diciembre 2014 .

On Monday 8th December indigenous peoples from around the world gathered in Lima to hold a public hearing with Vicky Tauli Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Assembling for the latest UN climate conference, indigenous peoples travelled to Peru to raise awareness about the destruction of their forests and call for a human-rights based approach to climate change. 

El día 8 de Diciembre, representantes de pueblos indígenas de todo el mundo que se reunieron en Lima en ocasión de la conferencia sobre cambio climático para llamar la atención sobre la destrucción de sus bosques y demandar que se adopte un enfoque de derechos humanos, tendrán una audiencia pública con Vicky Tauli Corpuz, relatora especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas.

The global forest crisis is worsening as infringements of the rights of indigenous peoples and forest-dependent communities are rising, according to a detailed assessment of nine country cases. Climate change mitigation and conservation policies must place community land rights and human rights centre-stage if they are to achieve the goal of sustainably reducing deforestation says the report.

The global forest crisis is worsening and infringements of the rights of indigenous peoples and forest-dependent communities are rising, according to a detailed assessment of nine country cases. Climate change mitigation and conservation policies must place community land rights and human rights centre-stage if they are to achieve the goal of sustainably reducing deforestation says the report.

Pada tahun 2012 dunia kehilangan lebih dari 20 juta hektar hutan. Kehilangan luasan hutan ini menambah ancaman yang dihadapi oleh ratusan juta masyarakat yang menggantungkan hidupnya pada hutan tropis, termasuk setidaknya 350 juta masyarakat adat yang menghuni, memanfaatkan, memiliki hak adat atas hutan, dan mengandalkan hutan untuk identitas dan kelangsungan hidup mereka sebagai kelompok komunitas yang unik.

New report finds that Peruvian government is failing to address the real causes of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon while undermining indigenous peoples’ efforts to protect their forests.

Un nuevo informe revela que el Gobierno del Perú revela que el gobierno peruano no hace caso a las verdaderas causas de la deforestación en la Amazonía,  al tiempo que socava los esfuerzos de los pueblos indígenas para proteger sus bosques.

 The report, Revealing the Hidden: Indigenous perspectives on deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon was compiled by Peru’s national indigenous peoples’ organisation (AIDESEP) and international human rights organisation, Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) and is based on the analysis and perspectives of Peru’s indigenous leaders and organisations whose lives, lands and livelihoods are threatened by deforestation on a daily basis.

 El informe, Haciendo visible lo invisible: perspectivas indígenas sobre la deforestación en la Amazonía Peruana fue recopilado por la organización nacional de pueblos indígenas de Perú, AIDESEP, y una organización internacional de derechos humanos, el Forest Peoples Programme (FPP). Los resultados se basan en el análisis de las organizaciones y líderes indígenas del Perú, para quienes las vidas, tierras y medios de vida de sus pueblos se encuentran amenazados diariamente por la deforestación.

Deforestation and forest degradation in Malaysia is a complex phenomenon with varying causes. So far, however, the focus has been largely on direct causes like industrial logging, large-scale commercial oil palm plantations and agribusiness, road construction and large dams. Far less attention has been paid to the indirect or underlying causes and agents, inter-linking and working to enrich the very few while creating hardships for many people as a result of degraded or diminished resources.

Indonesia is losing its forests faster than ever. Government efforts to halt the hand out of industrial permits for logging and plantations are failing. Despite its promises to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions, the country is experiencing a run-away process of forest clearance for oil palm estates and pulpwood plantations.

RECOGNITION OF A HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH WHICH RESPECTS INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' RIGHTS IN CLIMATE-CHANGE AGREEMENTS AND RELATED ACTIONS