FPP is one of four Implementing Partners (the others being AIPP, IWGIA and Tebtebba) in a European Commission-funded International Labour Organisation (ILO) project to develop a human rights…
In 2012 Guyana started negotiations with the EU with the aim of entering into a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) that will seek to ensure that Guyana exports only legal timber into the EU…
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has just agreed to establish a Permanent Indigenous Peoples Committee (PIPC) in its governing structure. The Sami is a traditional reindeer-herding people. Below,…
The 12th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP12) was held in Pyeongchang, South-Korea, from 6-18 October 2014. Indigenous Peoples from all around the…
Indonesia went through a historic democratic process this year, directly electing a new President to take over from a prior incumbent at the completion of his term.
This project, led by indigenous Bambuti-Batwa, was followed by a Whakatane Assessment with conservation authorities at Kahuzi Biega National Park in the DRC.Indigenous Batwa have lived in the forests…
The transfrontier TRIDOM area has been targeted for conservation for the past 20 years. Its cornerstones comprise Minkebe National Park in Gabon, Odzala Park in the Republic of Congo, the Dja Reserve…
The Sengwer of Embobut Forest in the Cherangany Hills, Kenya, have - since January 2014 - been forced off their lands by armed Kenya Forest Service (KFS) guards, who have been burning all their homes…
In April 2014, in a tragic premonition of what was to come, the leaders of Saweto, an Ashaninka village in the Peruvian Amazon, requested urgent measures from the Peruvian government to ‘prevent any…
Press release from the press conference held by IIFB at the 12th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity.The press release addresses an impasse that has emerged…
