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

On 8 December 2023, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) sent a new formal communication to the Peruvian State, under its early warning and urgent action procedure, on the situation of the Kichwa and Kakataibo Indigenous peoples with regard to the establishment of the Cordillera Azul National Park and the imple

The Amazonian Indigenous movement is in collective mourning for the loss of Quinto Inuma Alvarado, a much admired and prominent Kichwa leader of the Santa Rosillo de Yanayacu community, in the San Martin region of the northern Peruvian Amazon. Quinto Inuma was a tireless defender of the human rights and territory of his community.

El Ministerio Público, a través de su Fiscalía Supraprovincial de Derechos Humanos e Interculturalidad de la región San Martín, ha notificado a organizaciones indígenas de la región San Martín sobre la disposición que apertura la investigación preliminar contr

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Este lunes 13 de junio, la Sala Civil de la Corte de Loreto, confirmó la sentencia que declaró fundada en primera instancia la demanda presentada por ORPIO, y que planteaba evitar el otorgamiento de concesiones forestales en reservas  indígenas que están en proceso de cre

The French oil giant has still not provided a justification to the Kichwa people for how the purchase of more than $84 million dollars’ worth of carbon credits has contributed to the dispossession they have experienced by the imposition of the exclusionary conservation of the Cordillera Azul National Park (PNCAZ) in the San

At a press conference held by the Indigenous movement of the Shipibo-Konibo people, several testimonies were presented about the struggle of Indigenous communities in Ucayali against the abuses of the company Ocho Sur and its campaign to

The Puerto Franco native community of the Kichwa people has achieved a historic legal victory with the decision of the Mixed Court of Bellavista of the Superior Court of Justice of San Martin, ordering for the titling of their ancestral territory to begin.

El día 31 de marzo del 2023 en la ciudad de Tarapoto, el Ministerio de Justicia y Derechos Humanos  (MINJUSDH) convocó a la segunda reunión de la mesa regional para la protección de las personas defensoras de derechos humanos, luego de más de

The Sikuani Indigenous People composed of semi-mobile communities occupying the eastern Colombian plains region in the department of Meta, have been victims of historical dispossession of their lands for decades. Land rights violations have deprived them of their freedom of movement and denied them their rights to occupy and use their land and natural resources. Land theft and enclosures have ruptured their ties with their ancestral territory, on which they depend for their survival and continued existence as Indigenous People.

El Consejo Étnico de los Pueblos Kichwa de la Amazonía (CEPKA), el Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL) y el Forest Peoples Programme, anuncian la publicación digital en español del libro “Titulación que no llega, obligaciones no cumplidas: ¿Cómo proteger los territorios indígenas de la Amazonía peruana?”.

Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) reiterates its concern about the weakening of the rule of law, as well as the continuous, structural and systematic violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms by the Colombian government, especially against indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and peasants.

(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

The Santa Clara de Uchunya community and its representative organisation - the Federation of Native Communities in Ucayali and Tributaries (FECONAU) - ask the IACHR to call on the Peruvian state about their lack of response within reasonable time to their case.

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.

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.