A letter from the UN Special Rapporteurs to the World Bank critiquing the new proposed environmental and social safeguard framework.Read the letter here
Two indigenous women’s organisations in the Venezuelan State of Amazonas have denounced the activities of armed groups who identify themselves as Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC)…
Indonesia’s new president sets himself a major challenge to clean-up bribery and corruption in the forestry industry.By Patrick AndersonIn late November, after a month in his new job, Indonesia’s…
El día 8 de Diciembre, representantes de pueblos indígenas de todo el mundo que se reunieron en Lima en ocasión de la conferencia sobre cambio climático para llamar la atención sobre la destrucción…
On Monday 8th December indigenous peoples from around the world gathered in Lima to hold a public hearing with Vicky Tauli Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.…
The global forest crisis is worsening as infringements of the rights of indigenous peoples and forest-dependent communities are rising, according to a detailed assessment of nine country cases.…
Deforestation and forest degradation in Malaysia is a complex phenomenon with varying causes. So far, however, the focus has been largely on direct causes like industrial logging, large-scale…
The report, Revealing the Hidden: Indigenous perspectives on deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon was compiled by Peru’s national indigenous peoples’ organisation (AIDESEP) and international…
New report finds that Peruvian government is failing to address the real causes of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon while undermining indigenous peoples’ efforts to protect their forests.
