Deforestation reports launched and hearing held with the presence of UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous PeoplesIndigenous peoples were centre stage at the Lima UNFCCC COP20 in December…
The World Bank is entering the final stages of reviewing its processes for assessing and managing social and environmental risk at a project level. Originally announced in 2011, consultations on the…
According to research published by the European Commission last year, the European Union (EU) is the world's biggest importer of “embodied deforestation”, products linked to deforestation caused by…
The previous IUCN World Parks Congress (WPC) was held in Durban, South Africa in 2003. The historic marginalisation of indigenous peoples and local communities from conservation movements and…
There have been some significant gains in recent months in the journey towards securing community forest rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On 2nd August 2014, the long-awaited community…
The future of an 80 million USD land titling project in Peru, financed by the Inter American Development Bank (IDB), is on a knife-edge. AIDESEP, Peru’s national indigenous Amazonian peoples’…
In February, women from 20 different countries met in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to discuss the challenges indigenous women and their communities face in relation to their land rights. The International…
Update from ALDAW:The CSO letter to the EU has now been fully finalised, with 197 signatories, of which 18 are from the Philippines and amongst these 4 are from Palawan-based organisations and…
Yanomami from their organization, Horonami, marched through the regional capital in the Venezuelan Amazon on 20th February demanding better health-care and respect for their culture and dignity.…
IWGIA and FPP are pleased to announce the sumbission of our contribution to the EMRIP Study on Cultural Heritage. In addition to our official submission and supporting documents we are making…
