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Last week, Politico reported that Sweden, among some other EU countries, is pushing back on incorporating stronger human rights due diligence requirements in the EU’s proposed deforestation regulation, which is in the last stages of trilogue negotiations.

La semana pasada, Politico publicó que Suecia, entre algunos otros países de la UE, se opone a la incorporación de requisitos más estrictos de diligencia debida en materia de derechos humanos en la propuesta de reglamento de la UE sobre deforestación, que se encuentra en las últimas fases de las negociaciones tripartitas.

the practice of conservation and the respect for human rights can be tricky to navigate. When is it acceptable to restrict a community’s right to hunt or use natural resources it has traditionally accessed? Can a protected area be created on community lands without their consent?

Peru’s approach to conservation and natural resources is discriminatory and violates the human rights of indigenous peoples. Rather than marginalising these peoples, who have a long and varied history of conservation, conservation actors must recognise their enormous contribution to Peru’s natural heritage, and ally themselves with these communities against the true enemies of nature.

El enfoque nacional sobre la conservación y los recursos naturales en el Perú es discriminatorio y violatorio de los derechos humanos de los pueblos indígenas. En vez de marginar a este grupo, con la más larga y amplia historia de conservación, los actores de conservación necesitan aliarse con ellos, contra los verdaderos enemigos de la naturaleza.

In recent weeks, there has been significant press coverage of human rights abuses connected with the work of international conservation charities, including WWF.

As a human rights organisation, gender justice is a fundamental principle of our work, and we have long been conscious of, and sought to address, the barriers to effective participation in decision-making by women. This blog summarises some of the experiences and learnings from our fieldwork in the Congo Basin over the past 5 years, on how to improve women’s effective participation at the community level.

In September 2017, Survival International announced that it had withdrawn from OECD mediation with WWF, following its 2016 complaint lodged against

En septiembre de 2017 Survival International anunció