360 civil society groups and indigenous peoples’ organisations have endorsed a statement warning the World Bank that the newly proposed safeguard system risks increasing the burden on vulnerable…
23rd October 2014, Pucallpa: The Shipibo indigenous community of Korin Bari today filed a law suit against the Peruvian government for its failure to title its traditional territory resulting in the…
La lutte contre la déforestation et les actions visant à atténuer les changements climatiques figureront parmi les priorités de l’ordre du jour de la prochaine Conférence des Parties à la…
FPP organised a seminar entitled, Evaluating Investment Projects: Legal and Good Governance Considerations, in September 2014 in Kumba, Western Cameroon. The purpose of the meeting was to share…
Tackling deforestation and other climate mitigation actions will be one of the key items on the agenda of the up-coming Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in…
FPP is one of four Implementing Partners (the others being AIPP, IWGIA and Tebtebba) in a European Commission-funded International Labour Organisation (ILO) project to develop a human rights…
In 2012 Guyana started negotiations with the EU with the aim of entering into a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) that will seek to ensure that Guyana exports only legal timber into the EU…
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has just agreed to establish a Permanent Indigenous Peoples Committee (PIPC) in its governing structure. The Sami is a traditional reindeer-herding people. Below,…
The 12th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP12) was held in Pyeongchang, South-Korea, from 6-18 October 2014. Indigenous peoples from all around the…
