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A message to the world from the Wampis

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…

Les Nations Unies reconnaissent le travail soutenu du peuple wapichan pour défendre leurs terres et forêts

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…

Las Naciones Unidas reconocen el trabajo constante del pueblo Wapichan para defender sus tierras y bosques

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…

United Nations recognises sustained work of Wapichan people to defend land and forests

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…

Mobilising for the Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights

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…

Indigenous peoples in Guyana call for strong protections for customary land rights and application of FPIC in timber trade agreement with the EU

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) in the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

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…

Comunicado de prensa: “Lo vamos a matar”: la vida de un activista indígena corre peligro luego de oponerse a la destrucción de la Amazonía peruana.

Washington Bolívar, un activista indígena en el Perú ha recibido una nueva amenaza siniestra de muerte como consecuencia inmediata de sus esfuerzos para desafiar la destrucción de la selva amazónica…

Press Release: “We are going to kill you”: Indigenous activist’s life in danger after opposing destruction of Peruvian Amazon

London, 18 November 2015: Washington Bolivar, an indigenous activist in Peru has received another sinister death threat in the immediate wake of his efforts to challenge the destruction of Amazon…

International civil society alarmed by Conviction of Cameroonian environmental human rights defender

Cameroonian authorities must stop the repression of environmental human rights defender according to an international coalition of six environmental and human rights organizations, which includes…