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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

On 28 April 2023, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) sent a formal communication to the Peruvian State, in the framework of its early warning and urgent action procedure, regarding impacts on the human rights and territories of the Kichwa people and other Indigenous peoples by th

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Organisations of the Kichwa people together with human rights organizations have submitted a formal petition to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), requesting urgent action to stop exclusionary conservation by the Cordillera Azul National Park (PNCAZ).

Between 11 and 29 April 2022, the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination, at its 106th session, considered the combined 22nd and 23rd reports from the Republic of Cameroon. The review had been postponed from its original planned date of 2020 as a result of the pandemic.

Communities of the Kichwa people and their representative organisation have submitted a formal petition to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) requesting urgent action to protect their territories, stop racism from public officials, safeguard indigenous defenders and combat impunity for the destroyers of the ancestral forests of the Kichwa people of San Martin.

Jakarta, 27 May 2021 (Read on AMAN's site - Bahasa Indonesia) The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN CERD) has requested that the Government of Indonesia provide evidence it has adopted safeguards to guarantee the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples, in the context of the increasing presence of palm oil plantations in indigenous people’s lands and territories.

Jakarta, 27 Mei 2021 Komite PBB tentang Penghapusan Diskriminasi Rasial (Komite CERD PBB) meminta Pemerintah Indonesia untuk menyediakan bukti bahwa pemerintah telah menetapkan upaya perlindungan untuk menjamin perlindungan hak-hak masyarakat adat, “dalam kaitannya dengan meningkatnya perluasan kelapa sawit di tanah dan wilayah masyarakat adat.”

24 Indonesian indigenous and human rights organisations, and Forest Peoples Programme, have 

Bagyeli indigenous peoples have submitted a request for consideration to the Committee for the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination. The submission relates to the anticipated encroachment on the customary lands of seven Bagyeli communities by CamVert, for the establishment of an oil palm plantation

In April 2019, Association Okani, an indigenous peoples’ organisation based in Cameroon, in conjunction with Forest Peoples Programme submitted a request for consideration under the CERD Early Warning / Urge

Volume VIII of the series of compilations of United Nations human rights bodies’ jurisprudence pertaining to indigenous peoples, covering the years 2017, 2018 and 2019.

In December 2019, the UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination published its Final Observations and Recommendations on Colombia. This follows the review carried out by CERD every five years to evaluate the progress made in the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

The UN has requested that the Regional Government of Ucayali cancel its plans to remove protections for a 3.5 million hectare area of Amazon rainforest. This would facilitate the invasion of indigenous Shipibo lands in Peru, and expose at least 100,000 hectares to immediate threat from settlers and agribusiness operations.

Indigenous and human rights organisations in the Peruvian Amazon have filed a formal petition to the UN to appeal for urgent action to prevent the land grab and destruction of their lands. The action comes in response to the decision by the Regional Government of Ucayali to remove protections for 3.5 million hectares of Amazon rainforest and allow for the invasion of indigenous lands.

The UN’s committee on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination (UN-CERD) has issued its final observations on the performance of the Peruvian government.(1)

Komite PBB tentang penghapusan semua bentuk diskriminasi rasial (UN-CERD) telah mengeluarkan pengamatan akhirnya terhadap kinerja pemerintah Peru. (1)

On the 30th March 2018, an alliance of civil society organisations submitted a shadow report to the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination (CERD).

On the 30th March 2018, an alliance of civil society organisations submitted a shadow report to the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination (CERD).

Pada tanggal 30 Maret 2018, aliansi organisasi masyarakat sipil menyerahkan sebuah laporan bayangan