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Lessons Learned from the Conflict, Negotiations and Agreement between Senyerang Village and PT Wira Karya Sakti

Communities seeking redress for their lands, grabbed for pulpwood plantations in Sumatra, are let down by resolution process, reveals new report.

Tanzania Indigenous Peoples Civil Societies voice serious concerns over proposed World Bank Environmental and Social Framework

Tanzania indigenous organisations have written to the World Bank to express their concern at the overall weakening of the policy requirements for indigenous peoples in the draft of the proposed World…

Situación de Salitre no es aislada, 71% de los territorios indígenas son ocupados ilegalmente, por lo menos en un 40%

crhoy.comLos problemas entre indígenas del territorio de Salitre y finqueros, que aseguran haber comprado tierras en la zona, no son un hecho aislado en el país. Sólo dos territorios indígenas…

UN Special Rapporteurs criticise new ESF framework

A letter from the UN Special Rapporteurs to the World Bank critiquing the new proposed environmental and social safeguard framework.Read the letter here

Venezuela: indigenous women speak out against miners and armed insurgents

Two indigenous women’s organisations in the Venezuelan State of Amazonas have denounced the activities of armed groups who identify themselves as Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC)…

Indonesia promises to address forest destruction

Indonesia’s new president sets himself a major challenge to clean-up bribery and corruption in the forestry industry.By Patrick AndersonIn late November, after a month in his new job, Indonesia’s…

Audiencia de los pueblos indígenas con la Relatora Especial de la Naciones Unidas llama a la integración plena de los derechos de los pueblos indígenas en las negociaciones sobre cambio climático que se desarrolla en Lima.

El día 8 de Diciembre, representantes de pueblos indígenas de todo el mundo que se reunieron en Lima en ocasión de la conferencia sobre cambio climático para llamar la atención sobre la destrucción…

Indigenous forest peoples meet with head of UN human rights to urge integration of indigenous peoples' rights in combating climate change

On Monday 8th December indigenous peoples from around the world gathered in Lima to hold a public hearing with Vicky Tauli Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.…

New report reveals the danger of not placing community land rights and human rights centre stage in climate change negotiations

The global forest crisis is worsening as infringements of the rights of indigenous peoples and forest-dependent communities are rising, according to a detailed assessment of nine country cases.…