The complaints procedure of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is one of the options available to communities threatened by the negative impacts of the palm oil industry. Drawing on direct…
**Nota de prensa**La Nación Wampis de la Amazonia Peruana, declara la conformación del primer gobierno autónomo indígena del Perú para defender la totalidad, de su territorio ancestral que abarca 1.3…
**PRESS RELEASE: For immediate Release**The Wampis nation of the Peruvian Amazon declares the creation of the first autonomous indigenous government in Peru to defend the totality of their ancestral…
My name is Andres Noningo Sesen, I live in Puerto Galilea, a community in Northern Peruvian amazon. We are Wampis, one of the first peoples. Our ancestral lands cover over 1.3 million hectares of…
Paris, le 26 novembre 2015 – Le peuple wapichan au Guyana, Amérique du Sud, a reçu le prestigieux Prix Équateur du Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement (PNUD) en reconnaissance de leur…
Paris, 26 de noviembre de 2015 – El pueblo Wapichan de Guyana, América del Sur, ha recibido el prestigioso Premio Ecuatorial del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) en…
Paris, 26 November 2015 – The Wapichan people in Guyana, South America, have received the prestigious Equator Prize from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in recognition of their…
The Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights is a worldwide campaign with the aim to double the area of land recognised as owned or controlled by indigenous peoples and local…
In two newly released reports, indigenous leaders point out that the current concession allocations system in Guyana is unjust, severely flawed and facilitated by a national legal framework that does…
Community-based monitoring and information systems (CBMIS) refer to initiatives by indigenous peoples and local community organisations to monitor their community’s well-being and the state of their…
