Resources

Click here to read the report (in English only). 

Dear Friends,

The importance of ensuring respect for the rights of forest peoples’ to control their forests, lands and livelihoods, becomes ever clearer and yet more contested. As the articles in this edition of our newsletter starkly reveal, land and resource grabs are not just being imposed by commercial developers but are being actively promoted by governments, whose principle responsibility should be to protect the rights of citizens. Yet these same impositions are also being resisted, sometimes at great personal cost, by local communities and indigenous peoples.

Estimados amigos:

Chers amis,

Teman-teman yang terhormat,

This report by FPP partner Centre pour l’Environnement et le Développement (CED) on the Cameroon Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) presents a complete analysis of the commitments contained in the Agreement and provides recommendations to the key actors of the process.Click here to read the report (only available in French). 

Ce rapport du Centre pour l’Environnement et le Développement (CED) sur l'APV au Cameroun présente une analyse complète des engagements contenus dans l'Accord et formule les recommandations aux acteurs clés du processus.Télécharger le rapport.

Dear Friends,

Estimados amigos:

Chers amis,

Teman-teman yang terhormat,

Read the draft policy statement in English or in French.

Lisez ce document en français ou anglais.

Including Updates and Analysis from Rio+20

Dear Friends,

Incluye información actualizada y análisis de Río+20

Estimados amigos:

Contient l’actualité et l’analyse de Rio+20

Chers amis,

Incluindo Atualizações e Análises sobre a Rio+20

Caros Amigos,

IWGIA, Plan Finland and Plan Cameroon have published a report about the indigenous Baka living in Cameroon entitled What Future for the Baka? Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Livelihood Opportunities in south-east Cameroon. The report looks at the human rights situation of the indigenous hunter / gatherers of south-east Cameroon and their livelihood opportunities.

The African Development Bank is in the process of developing a new Integrated Safeguards System to guide its future lending in Africa. This paper argues that the measures to protect the rights of indigenous peoples in the proposed draft fall far below accepted international norms and standards and need substantial revision. The African Development Bank needs to adopt a standalone policy on Indigenous Peoples consistent with the rights of peoples and indigenous peoples as set out in the African Charter of Human and Peoples’ Rights and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The current draft text puts the AfDB itself, its borrowers and its clients all at risk of developing projects that are not only contrary to African and international standards, but which are likely to generate social conflict rather than promote sustainable development.

Read the sign-on letter in English or in French.