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The US Congress is putting new pressure on the World Bank to preserve its social and environmental rules for projects in developing countries amid fears that the emergence of rivals  backed by China may force it to weaken standards.The World Bank is next year expected to wrap up a review of its safeguards, which were introduced in the 1980s in response to criticism of environmental damage and rights violations linked to bank-funded megaprojects.

crhoy.comLos problemas entre indígenas del territorio de Salitre y finqueros, que aseguran haber comprado tierras en la zona, no son un hecho aislado en el país. Sólo dos territorios indígenas costarricenses -Telire, en Talamanca y Tayní, en Valle de La Estrella- son ocupados al 100 por ciento por indígenas.Un estudio realizado por la organización internacional y con representación en el país, Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), desnuda que el 71% de los territorios indígenas son ocupados ilegalmente, mínimo en un 40%.

Tanzania indigenous organisations have written to the World Bank to express their concern at the overall weakening of the policy requirements for indigenous peoples in the draft of the proposed World Bank Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS). Concerns include implications for the denial of the existence and rights of indigenous peoples under international human rights law, lack of meaningful and effective participation, forced eviction and lack of access to information.

Indonesia’s new president sets himself a major challenge to clean-up bribery and corruption in the forestry industry.By Patrick AndersonIn late November, after a month in his new job, Indonesia’s president Joko Widido (Jokowi), travelled to Riau Province, Sumatra, to see for himself the forest destruction that causes smoke and haze to blanket Sumatra, Malaysia and Singapore.

Two indigenous women’s organisations in the Venezuelan State of Amazonas have denounced the activities of armed groups who identify themselves as Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) and who are working with illegal miners in the Autana area.

A letter from the UN Special Rapporteurs to the World Bank critiquing the new proposed environmental and social safeguard framework.Read the letter here

COP20). Lima, Diciembre 2014 .

On Monday 8th December indigenous peoples from around the world gathered in Lima to hold a public hearing with Vicky Tauli Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Assembling for the latest UN climate conference, indigenous peoples travelled to Peru to raise awareness about the destruction of their forests and call for a human-rights based approach to climate change. 

El día 8 de Diciembre, representantes de pueblos indígenas de todo el mundo que se reunieron en Lima en ocasión de la conferencia sobre cambio climático para llamar la atención sobre la destrucción de sus bosques y demandar que se adopte un enfoque de derechos humanos, tendrán una audiencia pública con Vicky Tauli Corpuz, relatora especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas.

RECOGNITION OF A HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH WHICH RESPECTS INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' RIGHTS IN CLIMATE-CHANGE AGREEMENTS AND RELATED ACTIONS

Two years ago, the World Bank decided to undergo a review of its environmental and social policies. At the time when this process was launched, the Bank stated that the multi-stage review was being undertaken in response to the need "to better address environmental and social issues that countries face today, to deliver better environmental and social outcomes in the projects and programs the Bank supports."

Eco-business published an exclusive article jointly written by FPP, Greenpeace, RAN and WWF, on the NGOs’ thinking on protecting high carbon stock (HCS) forests. They indicated that despite commitments by some companies to protect these forests, challenges still remain, namely the definition of HCS.

With the theme “Biodiversity for Sustainable Development”, the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD COP 12) was held from 6th to 17th October 2014 in Pyeongchang, Korea. The meeting aimed at raising international awareness on the essential role of biodiversity and its contribution to sustainable development, as well as at highlighting biodiversity in the context of the post-2015 Development Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

A new book published by Forest Peoples Programme, Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation and the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)

Friday 14th November 17.30 to 19.00, at the WIN PavilionA Mechanism for promoting rights-based conservation through practical implementation of IUCN Resolutions, including redressing historical injustices and securing communities’ rights to their lands and territories.Three pilot Whakatane Assessments are in progress in Kenya, Thailand, and DRC, and another in preparation in Indonesia. These will be presented and discussed at this official launch of the Mechanism, chaired by Aroha Te Pareake Mead, Chair of CEESP.

FPP organised a seminar entitled, Evaluating Investment Projects:  Legal and Good Governance Considerations, in September 2014 in Kumba, Western Cameroon. The purpose of the meeting was to share information on current international law and up-to-date industrial standards for industrial companies seeking lands for agribusiness development. This included communities impacted by the SGSOC/Herakles palm oil development around Mount Cameroon and participants from outside the region whose lands are impacted by other large development projects.

En septiembre de 2014 el FPP organizó un seminario titulado Evaluación de proyectos de inversión - Consideraciones jurídicas y de buena gobernanza en Kumba, oeste de Camerún. La finalidad de la reunión era compartir información sobre el derecho internacional actual y sobre las normas industriales actualizadas aplicables a las empresas que buscan tierras para desarrollar agronegocios. En él participaron comunidades afectadas por las actividades de la empresa de aceite de palma SGSOC/Herakles alrededor del Monte Camerún, así como comunidades de fuera de la región cuyas tierras se ven afectadas por otros proyectos de desarrollo de gran envergadura.

In April 2014, in a tragic premonition of what was to come, the leaders of Saweto, an Ashaninka village in the Peruvian Amazon, requested urgent measures from the Peruvian government to ‘prevent any attempt on our lives’. The threat had come from loggers ‘in reprisal’ for the community’s longstanding efforts to document and denounce illegal logging in their territory.

En abril de 2014, en un trágico presentimiento de lo que estaba por suceder, los líderes de Saweto, una comunidad Asháninka de la Amazonía peruana, solicitaron al Gobierno peruano medidas urgentes para “prevenir cualquier atentado contra nuestras vidas”. Esta amenaza fue hecha por madereros “en represalia” por los esfuerzos hechos por la comunidad desde hace mucho tiempo para documentar y denunciar la tala ilegal en su territorio.