Resources

First published on apaguyana.com The voluntary carbon market has come under intense scrutiny over conc

Key messages  The report provides an analysis of existing mining legislation in DRC from a rule of law and human rights perspective.

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Community forests were first invoked during the reform of the 1994 forest law in Cameroon.

This report offers alternative information in response to the combined 12th and 13th Kenyan Government’s report submitted to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (‘ACHPR’) pursuant to Article 62 of the African Charter (the ‘Kenyan periodic report’).

(Spanish only) La Secretaría Indígena de la Comisión Nacional de Territorios Indígenas y la Asociación de Cabildos Indígenas del Pueblo Siona (ACIPS), presentaron ante la CIDH un informe sobre el panorama nacional de las afectaciones a Pueblos y Comunidades Indígenas, en el marco del ParoNacional

Report only available in Spanish 

This manual, through a series of concepts and guidelines, seeks to contribute to the safe exercise of the right to indigenous justice, prioritising the resolution of conflicts through traditional and peaceful mechanisms, and without contemplating violence or other types of aggression that could be used against them, whether through criminalisation by the state justice system or other types of harassment.

As news of vaccines begins to emerge, signalling at least the beginning of the end of the pandemic that has so altered our ways of living this year, we offer this report as a contribution to understanding the impact of COVID-19 on indigenous and tribal peoples.

Here we share a Legal Guide for community members, produced by our Indigenous Navigator partners in Came

Costa Rica's indigenous leaders have raised their voices in a pandemic, courageously recording them in this video that shows in their own words their fears, pain, and demand for justice, and request once again that the IACHR submit its expropriated request for provisional measures to the Court.

The result of a collective and community-led data-gathering exercise relying on the Indigenous Navigator framework and tools, this report identifies and discusses the experiences, needs, concerns and aspirations of indigenous women in 11 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

This report finds that Indigenous Peoples impacted by the global commodity frontier frequently face intimidation for defending their collective rights and territories amidst the expansion of logging, industrial agriculture, extractive projects and investments, and narcotics production.

This guide was developed to address the most pressing natural resource concerns of communities. It summarises the legal provisions of current Cameroonian legislation relating to natural resource management, and guides communities on what to look for, demand or avoid when faced with a situation of natural resource exploitation on their lands.

Cañamono Lomaprieta is an indigenous reserve of colonial origin, a 'resguardo' that has had a resistance for more than 500 years... [since] the whole process of colonisation began, of the entire continent, and towards the land of what is today Caldas. The colonisers arrived here very early as a result of all the gold.

Where there is an indigenous reserve or there are indigenous people, if there is no traditional medicine, it is all for nothing. If there is no traditional culture and traditional medicine [...] I believe that an indigenous reservation will have no strength. The territory is also very important, because indigenous people without territory are thrown into the air, into the space of capitalism, where one has no room for one's own life, but rather is at the mercy of the system of large-scale exploitation.

The development of community forests is gaining momentum in Central Africa. They can help secure customary tenure, sustainably manage resources and improve livelihoods for indigenous peoples and local communities.

A report and assessment by FPP for WWF on the free, prior and informed consent process undertaken in respect of the proposed Messok Dja protected area in Republic of Congo.

In the absence of a land tenure system establishing clear collective ownership rights, community forestry now appears to be the most efficient option to secure customary land tenure in Congo. However, despite the opportunities that community forestry offers for IPLCs to secure customary land rights and improve their livelihoods, a number or constraints and challenges persist in relation to land tenure insecurity and overlapping.

Although they are the ancestral owners of the Peruvian Amazon, for centuries indigenous peoples have been dispossessed, displaced and even exterminated to guarantee the advance of highly lucrative extractive activities. Even today, indigenous Peruvians endure the plundering and destruction of their territories.