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Challenges for the FSC Remedy Framework Social Baseline Assessment Process: Case Studies

In November 2024, FPP and local partners conducted field visits to nine communities affected by past FSC standard violations in North Sumatra, Riau, and East Kalimantan. This investigation revealed significant challenges in how the seven-part Remedy Framework process is being applied in practice.

23 June 2025

Photo shows a man with a severe head wound wrapped in a white cloth, being carried under the arms by four other men. The injured man in Kibet Emanuel, a Mosopisyek man shot by UWA rangers in 2025.

News

Uganda Wildlife Authority rangers accused of shooting Mosopisyek man in the head

The Mosopisyek continue to suffer severe violence and abuse at the hands of the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) who are pursuing an outdated colonial conservation practice that is discredited throughout the world as being both counter-productive in terms of conservation and abusive in terms of human rights.

25 June 2025

Community Voices

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.

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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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