Resources
Urgent Action - Culture, environment and biodiversity endangered in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
The Bangladesh government is planning to settle many more thousands of plains people on the ancestral lands of indigenous peoples in the Chittagong Hill Tracts against the will of affected communities. This culturally and ecologically destructive proposal threatens to violate the fundamental rights of indigenous peoples and destroy valuable forest ecosystems, including the Kassalong forests.
Indigenous and tribal communities, biodiversity conservation and the Global Environment Facility in India
Independent NGO report on the GEF-assisted India Ecodevelopment Project (1996-2004)
Indigenous Peoples & the Decisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity: a Guide
Comprehensive compilation by FPP - with addendum: March 2006
Central Africa: Great Lakes Region and Cameroon Article produced for The Indigenous World 2005, IWGIA's Yearbook, published May 2005
To obtain a copy of The Indigenous World 2005 from IWGIA, click here
At the International Conference on Peace, Security, Democracy and Development in the Great Lakes region in November 2004, 11 heads of state signed an agreement to end conflicts in the Great Lakes region, although the strategy to implement the declaration have yet to be agreed in inter-ministerial meetings during 2005.Despite this, conflicts continued to rage throughout the region, particularly in eastern DRC. There were signs of improving regional relations when the Congolese authorities signed separate joint verification mechanisms to improve border security with Rwanda and Uganda, while in August DRC, Rwanda and Uganda agreed to disarm groups operating within their territories within the year. Nevertheless, hostilities resumed in November when Rwanda’s President Kagame announced they would invade DRC again to disarm and repatriate Hutu militants because the Congolese authorities were not acting quickly enough to do so.