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Indigenous peoples and peasant communities in Colombia and First Nations in Canada exchange strategies to defend territories of life
01 August 2025
Briefing Papers
Territorial Resistance, Human Rights, Sacred Sites, Knowledge and Biodiversity in the Cañamomo Lomaprieta Indigenous Reserve of Colonial Origin in Colombia
This briefing paper provides a summary of the resistance struggles to defend ancestral territory as a collective right, the critical human rights situations and the environmental actions observed in the Cañamomo Lomaprieta Indigenous Reserve of Colonial Origin in Colombia as strategic mechanisms for cultural protection, adaptation and mitigation in the context of climate change and self-government. All against the backdrop of an internal armed conflict that has undermined peace in the country for over 50 years.
27 June 2025
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Building from the ground up: Opportunities to scale locally-led monitoring of the social impacts of conservation
This report presents the results of a global scoping exercise to identify and characterize monitoring initiatives led by or partnered with Indigenous Peoples and local communities to capture social dimensions of conservation. Information was received from 87 relevant monitoring initiatives. The work was commissioned by the Forest Peoples Programme, in support of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB). The purpose of the scoping exercise was to assess the extent to which Indigenous Peoples and local communities have engaged in establishing monitoring to track social dimensions of conservation, why they were set up, and what format they take.
04 August 2025
Briefing Papers
Protecting and Realising the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples and Local Communities in the Context of Business and Human Rights
Recommendations to the UK government
28 July 2025
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Women-led community assemblies explore how to overcome the legacy of colonial conservation in Africa
“As women we realised that we are the custodians of the land.” - Rachael Malka Mpeletian, Yaaku Community Member
Get a glimpse of the first of a series of women-led community-to-community assemblies in East Africa, hosted by the Ogiek people of Mount Elgon in Kenya, where communities discussed how to put an end to indigenous land appropriation.
Indigenous leaders sharing views from the ground on commodity certification, human rights and deforestation
Hear from Norman Jiwan, a Dayak indigenous leader from Borneo, West Kalimantan, Indonesia as he shares different experiences with palm oil certification – positive and negative – and gives suggestions on how it could be improved for the benefit of indigenous peoples on the ground.
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Pirate Wire Services: Indigenous people in Colombia’s rainforests mount new resistance against an old foe: Canadian oil companies
22 June 2025
Lands, Territories and ResourcesMinerals and EnergyRights to Lands, Territories and ResourcesSelf-determinationFree, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)English
