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The Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill sets out some core building blocks for a fit-for-purpose corporate accountability law in the UK.  

On 10 May, the House of Lords will debate The Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill (COPAD Bill).

On January 28, 2022, the Batani Foundation sent an open letter to the Russian federation, raising concerns over the recent attacks and criminalisation against Indigenous leaders and activists in Russia.

Indigenous leaders from Africa and South America have spoken to members of the UK parliament about the need to prioritise the rights of indigenous peoples in UK legislative proposals on sustainable commodity supply chains, and to ensure that British laws hold UK companies and financiers accountable to affec

In this new briefing, NGOs highlight that implementing a comprehensive set of measures and initiatives, including new legislation, is essential to reduce the EU’s footprint on the world’s natural ecosystems.

The long-awaited European Commission Communication on deforestation opens the door for regulation of EU commodity supply chains, in order to protect and restore the world’s forests. On the downside, the Communication lacks the ambition and additional actionable commitments required to tackle the global forest and climate crisis. We share our views.

Report back from the 4th United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-4)

Inputs to the Public Consultation on ‘Deforestation and Forest Degradation – Stepping up EU Action’

Together with partners from Indonesia, Malaysia, Democratic Republic of Congo and the Netherlands, FPP filed a joint submission to the French Government on its draft National Strategy to Combat Imported Deforestation (Strategie Nationale de Lutte Contre la Deforestation Importee – "SNDI").

Together with partners from Indonesia, Malaysia, Democratic Republic of Congo and the Netherlands, FPP filed a joint submission to the French Government on its draft National Strategy to Combat Imported Deforestation (Strategie Nationale de Lutte Contre la Deforestation Importee – "SNDI").

After taking part in meetings with the Amsterdam Declarations Partnership and DG Trade to present rights-based solutions for achieving deforestation-free trade, the 'Closing the Gap' delegation are travelling to Brussels to deliver a petition signed by 160,000 people urging EC President Jean-Claude Juncker to uphold the European Union’s international commitment to halt deforestation by 2020 by supporting an EU Action Plan to protect forests and respect forest peoples’ rights.

Bruselas, 29 de junio: Tras participar en reuniones de la Alianza de las Declaraciones de Ámsterdam y DG Trade para presentar

A recent Position paper by the German Institute for Human Rights argues that the newly developed standards of the multilateral Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and of the World Bank fall short in many respects of the human rights commitments that the Federal Government has imposed on itself. If Germany wishes to achieve the objectives it has set for itself, it will have to conduct its own human rights assessment of projects, and close monitoring of project implementation will be equally necessary.

The launch of a long-awaited new British fund for tackling deforestation drivers in forest nations is still on hold as UK government agencies continue to finalise the business case for the initiative. Meanwhile, UK NGOs have continued to press the government to ensure transparency in the governance structure for the fund, which is to be geared towards supporting tropical countries to combat deforestation and curb land use emissions. 

El lanzamiento de un fondo británico muy esperado para hacer frente a los impulsores de la deforestación en naciones con abundancia de bosques sigue en suspenso mientras los organismos públicos pertinentes continúan finalizando los fundamentos comerciales para esta iniciativa. Mientras tanto, una serie de ONG británicas han seguido presionando al Gobierno para que asegure la transparencia de la estructura de gobernanza del fondo, que va a ser encauzado hacia el apoyo a países tropicales para que combatan la deforestación y contengan las emisiones debidas al uso de la tierra. 

"GENEVA (07 August 2013) –States need to do more to honour and strengthen their treaties with indigenous peoples, no matter how long ago they were signed, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has said in a statement to mark International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on 9 August.“Even when signed or otherwise agreed more than a century ago, many treaties remain the cornerstone for the protection of the identity, land and customs of indigenous peoples, determining the relationship they have with the State. They are thus of major significance to human rights today,” she said.

Sophie Chao, FPP, has written the following article for OurWorld 2.0, the United Nations University's web magazine.To read the article on the OurWorld 2.0 website please click here.Seeing the people for the trees

Update 3rd August 2011The concept note for pilot Whakatane Assessment has been finalized. You can download it here As mentioned in Forest Peoples Programme’s February E-Newsletter, a meeting was held at the IUCN CEESP Sharing Power conference in Whakatane, New Zealand, January 2011, between indigenous representatives, the chairs of three IUCN commissions (CEESP, WCPA and SSC) and sub-commissions (TILCEPA and TGER), key staff of the IUCN secretariat (the Director of the Environment and Development Programme and the Senior Adviser on Social Policy), and other staff from IUCN, Conservation International and Forest Peoples Programme.The main outcome of the meeting and subsequent follow-up discussions was an agreement to implement a series of measures to review the implementation of resolutions related to indigenous peoples adopted at the 4th World Conservation Congress (WCC4) in 2008 and to advance their implementation should there be a gap.

La nota conceptual para las evaluaciones pilotas de Whakatane ha sido concluido. Se puede descargar aquiTal y como se mencionó en el boletín electrónico del FPP de febrero pasado, se llevó a cabo una reunión en la Conferencia de “Compartir el poder” de la UICN CPAES realizada en Whakatane, Nueva Zelandia en enero 2011, entre los representantes indígenas, los presidentes de las tres comisiones de la UICN (CPAES,CMAP y CSE) y las sub-comisiones TILCEPA (por sus siglas en inglés) y TGER (por sus siglas en inglés), además de personal clave de la secretaría de la UICN (el Director del Programa del Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo, y el Asesor Sénior en Políticas Sociales), y otros funcionarios de la UICN, de la ONG Conservación Internacional y del FPP. El resultado principal de dicha reunión y de las discusiones de seguimiento posteriores, fue un acuerdo para implementar una serie de medidas con el fin de evaluar la implementación de las resoluciones relacionadas con los pueblos indígenas, adoptadas en el 4° Congreso Mundial de la Naturaleza de la UICN (WCC4) en 2008. De esta manera se pueden identificar vacíos entre los compromisos y la práctica para ayudar a avanzar la implementación de las resoluciones.