Source: The Huffington PostBack in late February, following the revelation that oil and gas company Pluspetrol wanted to conduct "geological exploration" in Manu National Park in the Peruvian Amazon,…
Following sustained efforts to persuade the international rainforest conservation project to respect forest peoples' rights, local NGO Scale Up and Forest Peoples Programme have written a joint…
Indigenous organisations in Peru have exposed an initiative of the Peruvian protected areas authority (SERNANP) to modify the specific legal regime that regulates the governance and administration of…
The Ye'kuana and Sanema peoples of the Caura River, a major affluent of the Orinoco, have launched a renewed campaign for recognition of their lands rights and for the expulsion of illegal miners…
Introduction: We Indigenous Peoples and Nations (hereinafter referred to as Indigenous Peoples) representing the 7 global geo-political regions including representatives of the women’s caucus…
In preparation for the United Nations World Conference on Indigenous Peoples to be hosted by the UN General Assembly in 2014, Indigenous Peoples meeting in Alta, Norway, have reaffirmed their…
Recently and even more than before there has been a spate of letters appearing in the Guyana Chronicle leveled at criticizing the work of the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) and making totally…
Durante su sesión del 9 de junio, la Asamblea General del pueblo Guna en Panamá tomó la decisión histórica de rechazar todos los proyectos de REDD+ en la Comarca de Gunayala. Junto con el rechazo de…
During its meeting on 9th June, the Guna General Congress in Panama took the historic decision to reject all REDD+ projects in the Gunayala territory. Alongside this rejection of all REDD+ projects,…
