Themes

Explore the key themes the Forest Peoples Programme addresses, including Human Rights, Climate Change and Biodiversity, Business, Trade and Finance, Deforestation, Community Governance, and Culture and Knowledge.

View all

Lands, Territories and Resources

Indigenous peoples have symbiotic relationships with their ancestral territories which are central to their identity, survival, well-being and self-determined development.

View all

Self-determination and FPIC

Self-determination is the right of all peoples, including indigenous peoples and forest peoples, to determine their futures.

View all

Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN) y Palenke Alto Cauca (PAC)

PCN is a Black association that connects more than 140 grassroots organisations, community councils and individuals. These are constantly working to transform the political, social, economic and territorial reality of Black, Afro-descendant, Raizal and Palenquero communities, through the defence and vindication of their individual, collective and ancestral rights.

PCN was consolidated at the end of 1993, after a long road and the union of several efforts within the social movement to influence the 1991 Constituent Assembly, with which Colombia was denominated as a "multiethnic and multicultural" nation. This included the Transitory Article AT-55 for the regulation of the "Black Communities Law", one of the Afro-descendant peoples' greatest achievements in Colombian legislation.