FPP E-Newsletter December 2011 (PDF Version)
07 Dec 2011
Dear Friends,
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FPP E-Newsletter October 2011 (PDF Version)
10 Oct 2011
Dear Friends,In Africa, Asia and Latin America alike, forest peoples are speaking out against the continuing violations of their rights imposed by development and conservation plans that ignore their interests and deny them a voice. They go beyond resistance, insisting on their own ways of managing their lives, lands and forests.
Toolkit on Indigenous women's rights in Africa - Information Note #8: How to prepare an alternative report
28 Apr 2011
This Information Note forms part of a Forest Peoples Programme publication entitled Indigenous women's rights and the African human rights system: a toolkit on mechanisms that was launched on April 28, 2011 during the session of the African Commission on Human and
FPP Field Report Central African Republic/Dzanga Reserve, February/March 2011
31 Mar 2011
IntroductionForest Peoples Programme staff have recently returned from two weeks in the Central African Republic where we were working with the Bayaka Community Union and the World Wildlife Fund in the context of the EU-funded, Government of Central Africa Republic-implemented, and WWF-supported Dzanga Sangha project in which FPP is a partner. The objective of the EU project is to promote and improve local and especially indigenous livelihoods and sustainable development in the Dzanga Special Reserve in the context of increased protection for community rights, along with improved access to health and education services. The project is especially targeting the indigenous population of Bayaka forest huntergatherer communities, and the Sangha Sangha people, now a minority group traditionally based predominately along the rivers of the region. This EU project is one of a number of donor-funded projects implemented by the government, with technical and financial support from WWF, which together enable the Dzanga- Sangha Special Reserve to operate.
Smoke and Mirrors. A critical assessment of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
10 Mar 2011
This Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) and FERN report exposes ongoing serious problems in the World Bank's forest carbon fund, which is still failing to uphold the rights of forest peoples.
REDD and Rights In Cameroon: A review of the treatment of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in policies and projects
07 Feb 2011
In this report, it is argued that national REDD readiness planning activities in Cameroon, including activities involving the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), lack effective actions to ensure the participation of indigenous peoples and local communities, miss solid data on the drivers of deforestation and gloss over critical land tenure, carbon rights and benefit sharing issues.The nine sub-national REDD projects currently underway lack transparency, meaningful participation or free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) and disregard issues of land tenure, customary rights and benefit sharing.This document has ‘open access’, you are free to print a copy from our website.You may also reproduce the text with appropriate acknowledgements to FPP.
Indigenous peoples and United Nations human rights bodies Volume IV 2009-2010 - A compilation of UN treaty body jurisprudence and the recommendations of the Human Rights Council
03 Feb 2011
This document contains Volume IV of the series of compilations of United Nations human rights bodies’ jurisprudence pertaining to indigenous peoples and covers the years 2009 and 2010. It includes all of the UN treaty bodies and the recommendations of the Human Rights Council's Universal Peer Review mechanism.Also see Volume I: 1993-2004, Volume II: 2005-2006, Volume III: 2007-2008 and Volume V: 2011-2012 under related reports.