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The Kichwa people are fighting to defend their territory in the face of institutional dispossession. In this documentary, the cases of communities that have been deprived of access to their territories and livelihoods following the imposition of the Cordillera Azul National Park (PNCAZ) and the Cordillera Escalera Regional Conservation Area are made visible. The video and the article are so far available only in Spanish.

El pueblo kichwa sostiene la lucha por defender su territorio ante el despojo institucional. En este documental, se visibiliza los casos de las comunidades que han visto arrebatado el acceso a sus territorios y medios de vida tras la imposición del Parque Nacional Cordillera Azul (PNCAZ) y el Área de Conservación Regional Cordillera Escalera.

In June 2022, ten indigenous peoples’ communities from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania came together for the ‘East Africa Assembly on Land, Justice and Indigenous Peoples’ Co-operation’, the first round of a series of women-led community-to-community assemblies to explore how to overcome the legacy of colonial conservati

In Cameroon, the results of the community questionnaire shed light on the wide-ranging impacts of lack of citizenship documents.

Ce documentaire a été réalisé dans le cadre du projet Navigateur Autochtone et met en lumière la mise en œuvre d'un micro-projet visant à établir des actes de naissance pour les membres des communautés autochtones Baka et Bagyeli dans les régions du Sud et de l'Est du Cameroun.

[Film available in Spanish only]

En este cortometraje, las mujeres Embera Chami hablan sobre la fuerza vivificante de su territorio en Caldas y cómo se sostiene su identidad colectiva y bienestar a través de sus relaciones con la tierra, los sitios ancestrales en las montañas y los ríos y los cultivos tradicionales.

Drawing upon the expertise of indigenous leaders around the world, this webinar explores the ways in which legal empowerment and community-based methods are advancing access to justice for indigenous and forest communities. Watch the webinar, here:

Marutu Tao (Marudi Mountain) is one of a network of mountains in Guyana, that are a core component of Wapichan cultural heritage, but mining activities on it are threatening the environment, the cultural heritage and way of life of the Wapichan.

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.

Borneo’s borderlands – harbouring some of the oldest and most biodiverse tropical rainforests in the world - are at the epicentre of Indonesia and Malaysia’s oil palm expansion where over half of all deforestation is attributed to the monocrop, threating the home of thousands of indigenous communities.

 

Since 2004, the lands and resin forests of the Toba Batak community of Ompu Ronggur have been cleared and replaced by eucalyptus plantations of PT Toba Pulp Lestari [TPL], a pulp company owned by Singapore-based Raja Garuda Mas Group.

Right now, there is a rather complex situation... We have come from centuries of imposing a vision of the world, a vision of life at last, but also a discourse of hate against the indigenous peoples. What we find is a permanent denial of the State, of State institutions, with regards to the territorial law that we have. There are the interests of multinationals, and these businessmen and multinationals have been developing projects with the rights grated to them by the State.

Veníamos de siglos de imponer una visión del mundo, una visión finalmente de la vida y también de un discurso de odio contra el indígena. Lo que encontramos es una negación permanente del Estado, de las instituciones del Estado frente al derecho territorial que tenemos. Hay intereses de multinacionales, proyectos que llevan desarrollando fundamentalmente con los derechos que... A estos empresarios o a estas multinacionales les genera el Estado.

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.

El Resguardo Indígena Cañamomo Lomaprieta. es un resguardo de origen colonial, un resguardo que ha tenido una resistencia de más de 500 años... [desde que] empezó todo el proceso de colonización de todo el continente y hacia las tierras de hoy, de Caldas. Llegaron muy tempranamente los colonizadores, producto de las riquezas auríferas que hay allí.

This short film was produced by Pusaka in 2020, documenting the indigenous Wambon Tekamerop's relationship with their ancestral rainforest in Kali Kao, Papua Province, Indonesia.

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.