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Press Release: Human Rights groups call for palm oil moratorium in Palawan, Philippines

Puerto Princesa: 11th November 2015 - A recent fact-finding mission by regional human rights groups in the south-western island of Palawan, the last ecological frontier of the Philippines, has…

Baram Dam Declaration

Participants at the World Indigenous Summit on Environment and Rivers, WISER Baram 2015, hosted by the grassroots network SAVE Rivers collectively produced a declaration that acknowledges the…

Oil palm land grabs and deforestation in Philippines condemned by human rights groups

A regional network of Asian human rights commissions and supportive NGOs has issued a strong statement supporting calls for a moratorium on palm oil expansion in the Philippines southern island of…

IPO Letter to GCF Board

Indigenous Peoples' organisations raise concerns regarding the use of the terms “country ownership” and “multi-stakeholder engagement" ahead of Green Climate Fund meetings in Zambia, 2015. The letter…

CSO Statement: Reject accreditation of HSBC & Crédit Agricole at GCF

The Board of the Green Climate Fund must reject the applications for accreditation of both HSBC and Crédit Agricole. Their accreditation would pose serious reputational and moral risk to the GCF via…

Líder indígena del Perú viaja a Londres para denunciar la deforestación ilegal de 5000 hectáreas de la Amazonía peruana para el aceite de palma

[Londres, 2 de noviembre de 2015]: Robert Guimaraes Vásquez, un líder del pueblo indígena Shipibo-Konibo de la Amazonía peruana, ha viajado para participar en un foro mundial en Londres para tratar…

PRESS RELEASE: Peruvian indigenous leader in London to denounce illegal deforestation of 5000 hectares of Peru’s Amazon for palm oil

London, 2nd November 2015: Robert Guimaraes Vasquez, a leader of the Shipibo-Konibo indigenous people in Peru’s Amazon has travelled to a global forum in London on business, deforestation and human…

El fracaso del Perú para abordar la lucha de los pueblos indígenas por sus tierras y controlar la deforestación ilegal expone las promesas vacías de su Gobierno de hacer frente a la deforestación

La incapacidad de resolver los problemas de tenencia de la tierra subyacentes de los pueblos indígenas es uno de los principales factores que explican el aumento de la deforestación en el Perú, tal y…

Peru’s failure to address indigenous peoples’ land struggle and control illegal deforestation exposes empty pledges of its government to tackle deforestation

The failure to resolve the underlying land tenure problems of indigenous peoples is one of the main factors behind the increasing deforestation in Peru as reported in a national deforestation study…

Where They Stand

Where They Stand details how Wapichan people in South America use modern technologies in the struggle to secure their land rightsThe Wapichan people of Guyana are using modern technology and…