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Help the Ogiek to regain their ancestral lands at Chepkitale, Mount Elgon in Kenya - Request for Donations

The Ogiek of Mount Elgon, Kenya, are on the verge of reaching a legal agreement that will have their ancestral lands returned to them. However, they urgently need financial help (around £5,000) in…

Press Release: Indigenous peoples insist on rights-based approaches and respect for traditional knowledge and practices in Rio+20 outcomes

As government representatives start formal negotiations in Brazil to seek agreements on so-called ‘green economy’ policies and to assess progress in fulfilling commitments on environment and…

Rio+20: Indigenous views on new draft text of the outcome document

Draft Rio+20 proposed outcomes document a mixed bag: UNDRIP is acknowledged and some positive elements are likely to be secured on traditional knowledge, but other outcomes lack vital and much needed…

Indigenous Peoples' Conference on Sustainable Development and Self-Determination, 17 - 19 June 2012

“Standing Together for our Food Sovereignty, Traditional Cultures and Ways of Life”For more information on this conference please click here.

FPP letter to Peruvian government seeking clarification on expansion plans of the Camisea gas project, 18 May 2012

Click here to read the letter from FPP to PerúPetro (in Spanish only).Click here to read the response from PerúPetro to FPP's letter, June 2012 (in Spanish only).

National Indigenous Amazonian Peoples Organisation of Peru (AIDESEP) challenges the development of the World Bank's Forest Investment Programme (FIP) in Peru

In a letter addressed to senior government officials, representatives of the FIP and its international donors, AIDESEP highlight that the current effort to develop an investment plan fails to respect…

Mining and Amerindians in Guyana

Final report of the APA/NSI project on 'Exploring Indigenous Perspective on Consultation and Engagement within the Mining Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean'.Click here to read the report.

United Nations University OurWorld 2.0: Seeing the people for the trees

Sophie Chao, FPP, has written the following article for OurWorld 2.0, the United Nations University's web magazine.To read the article on the OurWorld 2.0 website please click here.Seeing the people…