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Indigenous peoples' letter to the World Bank on the conduct of the safeguards review consultations

In this letter, we would like to take the opportunity to reiterate some serious concerns we have with the on-going consultation process in the updating and reviewing of the World Bank’s current 8…

New Report: “We who live here own the land” - Customary Land Tenure in Grand Cape Mount, and Community Recommendations for Reform of Liberia’s Land Policy & Law

This document, and the consultations on which it is based, is intended to enable communities in Sime Darby affected areas in Grand Cape Mount, Liberia, to have their voice heard at the…

Press Release: Indigenous women from Asia and the Pacific speak out about sexual violence and multiple forms of discrimination against indigenous women and girls

This week, indigenous women from throughout the Asia-Pacific region have gathered to raise their voices and present their concerns to the on-going session of the Commission on the Status of Women…

Statement by Indigenous Women from Asia-Pacific Region and the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) to the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

Priority theme of 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women: Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girlsStatement by Indigenous Women from Asia-Pacific and…

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…