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Press release - World Bank in too much of a hurry to restart palm oil funding

A consortium of over one hundred indigenous peoples’, oil palm smallholders’, and nongovernmental organisations has called on the World Bank to think again before it rushes back into funding oil…

Dams, Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities

Thematic Review 1.2 prepared as an input to the World Commission on Dams, Cape Town

Ethiopia Major hydroelectric project in the Omo Basin will damage the lives of 200,000 indigenous people

An academic study of the 'fundamentally flawed' 2006 Environmental Impact Assessment of the planned Gibe III hydroelectric project in Ethiopia's Lower Omo River Basin suggests that Ethiopian…

Ethiopia - Latest EIA of planned major hydroelectric project in the Lower Omo Basin still ignores its destructive effect on 200,000 indigenous people

An academic analysis of the 2008 'Additional Study on Downstream Impact' of the planned Gibe III hydroelectric project finds that this latest Environmental Impact Assessment 'rests on a series of…

Pronunciamiento de las Comunidades Ashaninka de la cuenca del Rio Ene frente a la amenaza de la represa hidroelectrica de Pakitzapango

Reunidos en su XIII Congreso Ordinario en la Comunidad Nativa de Pichiquia, anexo de Meteni (distrito de Río Tambo)24-26 de abril del 2009

Peru - Declaration concerning the threat of the Pakitzapango Dam by the Ashaninka communities of the Ene Valley

Drafted on the occasion of the XIII Ordinary Congress of their representative organisation, Central Ashaninka del Rio Ene (CARE), in the community of Pichiquia24-26 April 2009

Press release - Sarawak state government not listening to its indigenous peoples

Indigenous representatives arrested over opposition to construction of dams on their lands, commissioned without their consent by the state government.Issued by JOAS (Indigenous Peoples Network of…

Reply from the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment, regarding the Kaiduan Dam

Reply to letter submitted by FPP 8 March 2010 about the proposed Kaiduan Dam (see related reports). The Minister's letter states that no official evaluation has yet taken place, and that proper…

Sabah, Malaysia - Letter to Government ministers about the proposed Kaiduan Dam

FPP letter expresses concerns in support of the potentially affected communities about the feasibility study, and requests the Government's commitment to conduct full, participatory consultations…

Brazil - Raposa Serra do Sol Update to UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

regarding the situation of the Macuxi, Wapichana, Taurepang, Ingaricó and Patamona peoples of Raposa Serra do Sol, for consideration during CERD's 74th session as a part of its continuing review of…