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Peru
Statement on IIRSA and megaproyects in the Peruvian Amazon

Indigenous peoples in the Peruvian amazon call on the international community to show solidarity with their campaign to challenge top-down infrastructure developments threatening their lands and forests under the controversial Initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA).
Statement from a workshop held in the community of Flor de Ucyali.
January 2010 (only available in Spanish)

Perú
Resolución del Taller sobre Megaproyecto IIRSA y Lotes Petroleros

Los pueblos indigenas en la amazonia peruana hacen un llamado a la solidaridad internacional a sumarse con su campaña para defender sus derechos y proteger sus bosques ancestrales amenazados por megoproyectos de infraestructura bajo la controvertida Iniciativa para la Integración de la Infraestructura Regional Suramericana (IIRSA).
Pronunciamiento del Taller de Flor de Ucayali
Enero de 2010 - pdf


Taking stock of Copenhagen: outcomes on REDD+ and rights
FPP briefing on REDD-related outcomes from COP15, Copenhagen (December 2009)
January 2010 - pdf

Un análisis de los resultados de las negociaciones sobre REDD en la conferencia COP15 de Copenhague
informe del FPP sobre la COP15 de Copenhague (diciembre de 2009) y las negociaciones en el tema REDD.
Enero de 2010 - pdf
Cameroon
The situation of indigenous peoples in Cameroon
Supplementary report to UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

submitted by Centre for Environment and Development (CED), Réseau Recherches Actions Concertées Pygmées (RACOPY) and Forest Peoples Programme
January 2010      - Report: pdf      - annexes: pdf

Cameroun
La situation des droits des peuples autochtones au Cameroun
Rapport supplémentaire soumis au Comité des Nations Unies pour l'élimination de la discrimination raciale

soumis par le Centre pour l'Environnement et le Développement (CED), le Réseau Recherches Actions Concertées Pygmées (RACOPY) et Forest Peoples Programme
Janvier 2010      - Rapport : pdf       - annexes : pdf
Nepal
Request to UN Special Rapporteur for follow-up on Nepal's failure to comply with UN recommendations regarding the exclusion of indigenous peoples from the revision of Nepal's Constitution

Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples (SRIP)
By the Indigenous Peoples Mega Front, the Lawyers' Association for Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples (LAHURNIP), and the Forest Peoples Programme
January 2010 - pdf
Brazil
Further update to CERD regarding the continued need for urgent action with relation to the indigenous lands of Raposa Serra do Sol

Further to the submission of July 2009, this update reports that indigenous peoples' rights in Brazil are being seriously threatened. In addition, the Brazilian government has still failed to provide the full accounting of the status of the violent attacks against the indigenous peoples of Raposa, as requested by CERD.
Submission by Conselho Indígena de Roraima, Rainforest Foundation US, and Forest Peoples Programme
January 2010 - pdf


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