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FPP and Partners' Submission to the UN Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises, March 2013

RE: Civil society inputs to the public consultation on the thematic report on indigenous peoples and business and human rights.Click here to read the submission. 

Film: Don't Pulp Pandumaan-Sipituhuta: A David and Goliath Tale

Film: Don't Pulp Pandumaan-Sipituhuta: A David and Goliath Tale

Indonesian communities resist forest land grab by pulp and paper plantation

The community of Pandumaan-Sipituhuta in North Sumatra faces the clearance of the forests that they depend on to extract resin by the Toba Pulp Lestari paper company, a subsidiary of the pulp and…

Yukpa leader assassinated for resisting coal mining in western Venezuela

Yukpa leader and activist, Sabino Romero, was assassinated on 3 March 2013, according to the Venezuelan national human rights organisation, Provea.

58 organizaciones internacionales solicitan la intervención del Presidente de Perú a prohibir la expansión del Proyecto Camisea en una Reserva para pueblos en aislamiento

El 19 de Febrero 2013, 58 organizaciones internacionales ambientales y de derechos humanos (incluyendo Amigos de la Tierra-Francia, el Sierra Club y Fundación Rainforest Noruega) entregaron una carta…

International organisations request intervention of Peruvian President to prohibit expansion of Camisea gas project within Reserve for isolated indigenous peoples

On 22 February 2013, 58 international human rights and environmental organisations (including Friends of the Earth-France, the Sierra Club and Rainforest Foundation Norway) submitted a letter to…

Las organizaciones indigenas en Panama retiran del Programa Nacional Conjunto de ONU-REDD

Las organizaciones indígenas en Panamá han retirado del Programa Nacional Conjunto de ONU-REDD debido a la falta de participacion efectiva y tratamiento defectuoso de los asuntos de derechos por…

Indigenous peoples' organisations in Panama pull out of UN-REDD National Joint Programme (NJP)

Indigenous peoples' organisations in Panama have withdrawn from the UN-REDD National Joint Programme (NJP) due to the inadequate attention to rights issues by the government and UN agencies and…

International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) Open Statement on the Green Climate Fund (GCF), December 2012

The Indigenous Peoples Organisations (IPO) Constituency accredited under the UNFCCC, in the name of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC), has this week sent a letter…

Film produced by PUSAKA, SKP-Kane and Gekko Studio: Our Land Has Gone

The Malind Anim tribe in Zanegi village, Merauke, Papua, Indonesia are hunter gatherers who rely on the forest for their livelihoods. They are born, raised and get food from the forest. But in the…