On September 30th and October 1st, a major international meeting on securing the land and resource rights of indigenous peoples and communities will be held in Bern, Switzerland. The conference…
Capacity-building on traditional knowledge, customary use and community monitoring In June 2015, Forest Peoples Programme was one of the main organising partners of a CBD International Training…
For the last two months, the Bantu and Bagyeli communities of Bella have watched as workers from a forestry company have entered their territory and started razing their forest lands. Removal of logs…
Global calls to curb forest loss have taken on an added urgency in the light of renewed efforts to combat climate change. The statistics are clear: rapid land use change is a significant cause of…
Indonesia’s largest palm oil producer, Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), is in trouble after the Complaints Panel of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) upheld Forest Peoples Programme’s…
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) Working Group on Extractive Industries, Environment and Human Rights held a sub-regional consultation for Central Africa, in Lubumbashi,…
Here are some stories and facts from an FPP trip to support our partners in Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan in May 2015. A message was sent to us by our local partner, Link-AR Borneo, saying that four…
In their recent Science editorial on the subject of isolated indigenous peoples, two anthropologists, Hill and Walker argue for a tectonic shift in policy from ‘leave them alone’ to ‘controlled…
La nación indígena Wampis del Alto Amazonas en Perú formará su propio organismo autónomo de autogobierno para controlar y vigilar su territoriointegral. Las comunidades Wampis rechazan las grandes…
The Indigenous Wampis people of the Upper Amazon in Peru are on the verge of establishing their own autonomous self governing body to control and oversee their integralterritory. The Wampis…
