Los pueblos indígenas de los bosques de Camerún se han reunido para formar una plataforma oficial que represente mejor sus puntos de vista en las esferas local, nacional e internacional.
Les peuples autochtones des forêts du Cameroun se sont rassemblés pour former une plateforme officielle afin de mieux représenter leurs points de vue aux échelons local, national et…
Following the submission of inputs on the human rights situation in Indonesia and Papua by Indigenous Peoples' organisations for the UN Universal Periodic Review in September 2016, the United Nations…
Since the 1960s, the Sengwer peoples of western Kenya have been experiencing forced evictions from their home in the name of conservation. Since 2014, these evictions have intensified.
In an unusually strongly worded formal communication to the Royal Thai Government, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has expressed its serious concerns…
Indigenous forest peoples in Cameroon have come together to form an official platform to better represent their views locally, nationally and internationally. For the first time in Cameroon,…
The thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP13) will be held in Cancun, Mexico, from 4 to 17 December 2016. For Indigenous Peoples…
Communities in Liberia have spoken to palm oil sector representatives about ongoing land tenure issues and participation of peoples in future plans for their customary lands. Sixteen representatives…
On the 4th of August 2016, the Executive Board of the World Bank approved its new safeguard approach, detailed in a text called the ‘Environmental and Social Framework’.The Environmental and Social…
At IUCN’s World Conservation Congress in Hawaii in September 2016 key motions were approved calling for the recognition of the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities where protected areas…
