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This independent field study shows how a pulp and paper company in Indonesia needs to respect Indigenous peoples’ customary rights to re-join the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

An independent field study reveals that indigenous peoples in Indonesia lost large parts of their customary territories to a pulp and paper company’s (APRIL) plantations, without having their rights recognised, and without their Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC).

This report brings together a wide range of recent studies on the competitive struggle over control of land, timber and other resources in Indonesia's forest zones, providing an accessible guide to the practices and incentives generated by the country's 'Forest Politics.'

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.

A medida que se difunde la noticia de la creación de vacunas, indicando el principio del fin de la pandemia que tanto ha alterado nuestras formas de vida este año, ofrecemos este informe como una contribución a la comprensión del impacto del COVID-19 sobre los pueblos indígenas y tribales.

Alors que la nouvelle de vaccins commençait à se répandre, signalant au moins le début de la fin de la pandémie qui a chamboulé nos modes de vie cette année, ce rapport a pour but de mieux comprendre les effets de la COVID-19 sur les peuples autochtones et tribaux.

International Labour Organization Article 24 Representation Non-Observance of Convention No.111 by the Republic of Indonesia Submitted by SERIKAT BURUH PERKEBUNAN INDONESIA (SERBUNDO)

FPP and BothENDS have provided a submission the UN Special Rapportuer on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, as a contribution to her crucial thematic report on the criminalisation of indigenous peoples.

FPP y Both ENDS han entregado una presentación (disponible solo en inglés) para la Relatora Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas, Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, como contribución a su crucial informe temático sobre la criminalización

FPP et Both ENDS ont transmis une communication (disponible en anglais uniquement) à la Rapporteuse spéciale des Nations Unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones, Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, qui est une contribution à son rapport thématique primordial sur la criminalisation

Around 5 per cent of the world’s population are indigenous, and every day huge numbers of indigenous people risk their life in protection of their ancestral lands. According to Global Witness’ Defenders of the Earth 2017 report, nearly 40 per cent of the defenders who died in 2016 were indigenous.

Alrededor del 5 % de la población mundial está constituido por indígenas, y todos los días un ingente número de ellos pone el peligro su vida por proteger sus tierras ancestrales.

Environ cinq pour cent de la population mondiale est autochtone, et chaque jour, un très grand nombre de personnes risquent leur vie pour protéger leurs terres ancestrales. Selon le rapport Defenders of the Earth 2017 de Global Witness, près de 40 pour cent des défenseurs décédés en 2016 étaient autochtones.

Indonesian NGOs Pusaka and Greenpeace Indonesia along with 7 local Papuan organisations have just released a statement and report from a Conference held in Sorong, West Papua, in December last year where activists reviewed the problems facing the people and forests of Papua and West Papua from forestry and land concessions.

The national indigenous peoples’ alliance in Indonesia, the Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara (AMAN) and the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) have submitted a critical update to the UN Human Council’s Universal Periodic Review as the HRC prepares to review the human rights situation in Indonesia. Important threats to the security of indigenous peoples in the country are highlighted, as are recent legal changes in the country.

KomNasHAM, the Indonesian Human Rights Commission, has issued an English summary of its recent National Inquiry on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the Territories in the Forest Zone. The inquiry found that, despite constitutional guarantees of the rights of the country’s indigenous peoples, these rights are systematically denied.

In order to avoid imminent and irreparable harm, the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN), the national indigenous peoples’ organization of Indonesia, and Forest Peoples Programme respectfully request that the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) considers the situation of the Aru indigenous peoples of the Aru Islands District, Moluccas Province, under the its early warning and urgent action procedure.

The global forest crisis is worsening and infringements of the rights of indigenous peoples and forest-dependent communities are rising, according to a detailed assessment of nine country cases. Climate change mitigation and conservation policies must place community land rights and human rights centre-stage if they are to achieve the goal of sustainably reducing deforestation says the report.

Deforestation and forest degradation in Malaysia is a complex phenomenon with varying causes. So far, however, the focus has been largely on direct causes like industrial logging, large-scale commercial oil palm plantations and agribusiness, road construction and large dams. Far less attention has been paid to the indirect or underlying causes and agents, inter-linking and working to enrich the very few while creating hardships for many people as a result of degraded or diminished resources.