IP Representatives Develop Human Rights Monitoring Framework

FPP is one of four Implementing Partners (the others being AIPP, IWGIA and Tebtebba) in a European Commission-funded International Labour Organisation (ILO) project to develop a human rights monitoring framework and tools for Indigenous Peoples to use in their community-based monitoring activities.

The project will also push for the inclusion of indigenous peoples’ rights and aspirations in the post-2015 development agenda, including in the future sustainable development goals, targets and related indicators.An important first step in this project took place in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 19-21 August, when ten representatives of  indigenous peoples organisations gathered to discuss and agree the most important issues that must be captured by such monitoring, based on the rights covered by the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

With participants from Chile, Peru, Suriname, Kenya, Nepal and Thailand, a wide-ranging debate identified a number of key overarching themes that are common to indigenous peoples. . However, it was recognised that there will always be special concerns relevant for specific local situations. With support from Brigitte Feiring, a consultant to the project, participants were able to propose draft monitoring tools   to be field-tested in communities over the next six months. The in-country partners include:

• Indigenous Livelihoods Enhancement Partners, Kenya
• Inter Mountain Peoples Education and Culture in Thailand
• Lawyers Association for Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples
• Mainyoito Pastoralist Integrated Development Organization, Kenya
• National Indigenous Women's Federation, Nepal
• Vereniging van Inheemse Dorpshoofden in Suriname
• Visión Amazonía, Peru
• OKANI, Cameroon.

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