On the 4th of August 2016, the Executive Board of the World Bank approved its new safeguard approach, detailed in a text called the ‘Environmental and Social Framework’.The Environmental and Social…
At IUCN’s World Conservation Congress in Hawaii in September 2016 key motions were approved calling for the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities where protected areas…
The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights released this report into the human rights impacts of major food and beverage supply chains, highlighting problems communities face in seeking…
The Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 is a global public-private partnership, designed to remove deforestation from the palm oil, beef, soya, and pulp and paper sectors. In Liberia it focuses on…
The national indigenous peoples’ alliance in Indonesia, the Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara (AMAN) and the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) have submitted a critical update to the UN Human…
Based on the experiences of Amerindian communities in Guyana, this briefing presents some of the main causes of forest conflicts in the country as well as recommendations for how to address these. In…
The Forest Peoples Programme, along with over 100 other organisations, has called on the Green Climate Fund to develop it’s own Environmental and Social Management System and to develop and adopt an…
Karen communities write to IUCN to express their concerns about the possible inscription of their ancestral territory as part of a large natural World Heritage Site without their consent. Click here…
Available in Thai and English, a statement from the Karen Network for Culture and Environment (KNCE) opposing the inscription of their ancestral territory as part of the Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex,…
A new study by Forest Peoples Programme, published in Policy Matters, explores the challenges that certification systems face upholding indigenous peoples’ rights.
