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The Association of Indigenous Village Leaders in Suriname (VIDS), which is an FPP partner, was part of a coalition from Suriname that took part in a protest demonstration - 'March of the peoples of the earth for the Amazon'.

The Transformative Pathways website, launched today, is a platform to evidence Indigenous Peoples' and Local Communities’ work safeguarding biodiversity across the globe. The website is a repository of information  to ensure that Indigenous voices are heard in global biodiversity policy. 

This article explores how global initiatives for forest conservation collide with the human rights of local populations.

Este artículo explora la forma cómo las iniciativas mundiales para la conservación de bosques colisionan con los derechos humanos de las poblaciones locales.

On 4 April 2023, a coalition of 24 Peruvian and international Indigenous, human rights and environmental organisations issued a statement condemning the US Ambassador in Peru’s public endorsement of the palm oil company Ocho Sur’s operati

On 22 June 2023, FPP and partner APEM hosted a workshop in Kinshasa to discuss and share the main findings of a new report on mining legislation in DRC.

  7th June 2023 ICCS Group, Department of Biology, University of Oxford

Forest Peoples Programme has written to the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) setting out necessary and practical suggestions to integrate the rights of indigenous peoples and other customary rights-holders into the framework.  

Defensores y defensoras de los pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía peruana se reunieron en la ciudad de Pucallpa para evaluar los avances y los desafíos que implica frenar la ola creciente de amenazas y asesinatos a quienes defienden sus territorios colectivos, vidas y derechos fundamentales.

Defensores y defensoras de los pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía peruana se reunieron en la ciudad de Pucallpa para evaluar los avances y los desafíos que implica frenar la ola creciente de amenazas y asesinatos a quienes defienden sus territorios colectivos, vidas y derechos fundamentales.

The Ogiek of Chepkitale, Mount Elgon, Kenya, protect and care for their community lands over the long term. 

World first for Conservation Journal, Oryx, as Indigenous-authored special edition launches  22 May, Cambridge, UK

Primicia mundial para Oryx, la Revista Internacional de Conservación, al realizar el lanzamiento de una edición especial de autoría indígena

Deforestation, invasions and aggressive oil palm expansion threaten an Indigenous community. The ancestral territory of the Indigenous community of Santa Clara de Uchunya indigenous in Ucayali has experienced more than 25,000 hectares of forest destr

Más de 25.000 hectáreas de devastación forestal registra actualmente el territorio ancestral de la comunidad indígena Santa Clara de Uchunya, en Ucayali

Palm oil route and conflicts, that everyday ingredient that comes from a depredated territory The crude palm oil produced by the Ocho Sur group originates in an area of the Peruvian Amazon devastated more than 10 years ago, which the Santa Clara de U

Ruta y conflictos del aceite de palma, ese ingrediente cotidiano que nace de un territorio depredado El aceite crudo de palma elaborado por el grupo Ocho Sur tiene su origen en un área de la Amazonía

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

El 28 de abril de 2023, el Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación Racial de las Naciones Unidas (CERD) envió una comunicación formal al Estado peruano, en el marco de su procedimiento de alerta temprana y acción urgente, sobre las afectaciones a los derechos humanos y territorios del pueblo Kichwa

Private sector investments promoting the sale of forest carbon credits in the Colombian Amazon accused of disrespecting the right to prior consultation and FPIC of Indigenous Peoples A growing number of press articles published by the Latin American Center for Journalistic