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Venezuela: indigenous women speak out against miners and armed insurgents
16 December, 2014Two indigenous women’s organisations in the Venezuelan State of Amazonas have denounced the activities of armed groups who identify themselves as Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de...
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Yangon Conference on Human Rights and Agribusiness in Southeast Asia:...
5 February, 2015On 4 – 6 November, National Human Rights Commissions and civil society organisations of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Lao PDR and Myanmar, congregated in Yangon for...
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Venezuela: Yanomami march for health and justice, while illegal mines in...
23 February, 2015Yanomami from their organization, Horonami, marched through the regional capital in the Venezuelan Amazon on 20th February demanding better health-care and respect for their culture...
View ArticleStop evictions of Sengwer families or cancel the International Colloquium...
27 February, 2015Dear Colloquium Organizers,The Government of Kenya and the World Bank have invited us and other traditional forest-dependent communities to sit down with them at the International...
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Venezuela: Ye’kwana and Sanema of the Caura have again appealed to the...
26 March, 2015A delegation of indigenous representatives presented a petition to the Venezuela Government’s Ministry of Public Affairs to denounce the continuing of abuse of their rights by the armed...
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Indigenous peoples of Peru unite to denounce imminent legal reforms that...
28 April, 2015In a statement published in a national newspaper, the council of AIDESEP, which represents over 1800 communities in the Peruvian Amazon called for the repeal and shelving of recent legal...
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Precautionary Measures issued by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in...
7 May, 2015Due to a series of violent attacks and threats against these two indigenous peoples in the last few years, the Commission decided that the acts and omissions of the State were not adequate...
View ArticleIACHR Tackles Violence Against Native Peoples in Costa Rica
12 May, 2015SAN JOSE, May 11 2015 (IPS) - After years of violence against two indigenous groups in Costa Rica, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) demanded that the government adopt...
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Venezuela: Indigenous peoples call again for recognition of their territorial...
8 June, 2015On 4th June, the regional organisation of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon in Venezuela (ORPIA) issued an appeal to President Maduro and the national administration to halt the mining...
View ArticleIndonesia: President renews his pledge to protect indigenous peoples’ rights
7 July, 20157th July 2015: In a recent meeting with the national indigenous peoples’ alliance (AMAN), the Indonesian President vowed to support the Bill on the Recognition and Protection of Indigenous...
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Report on the situation of indigenous tribal peoples in Suriname
16 July, 2015A Report on the Situation of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Suriname and Comments on Suriname’s 13th ‐ 15th Periodic Reports (CERD/C/SUR/13‐15)Committee on the Elimination of Racial...
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Request for consideration of the situation of indigenous peoples of the Aru...
16 July, 2015In order to avoid imminent and irreparable harm, the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN), the national indigenous peoples’ organization of Indonesia, and Forest Peoples...
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Revealing the Hidden: Indigenous Perspectives on Deforestation in the...
Forest Peoples Programme AIDESEP 4 December, 2014 The report, Revealing the Hidden: Indigenous perspectives on deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon was compiled by Peru’s national indigenous peoples’...
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The Indigenous Wampis people of the Upper Amazon in Peru set to establish...
28 September, 2015The Indigenous Wampis people of the Upper Amazon in Peru are on the verge of establishing their own autonomous self governing body to control and oversee their integralterritory. The...
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Indigenous peoples in Paraguay recommend action on land rights and national...
12 November, 2015Asunción, November 12, 2015: Two new reports launched today by the Paraguayan Federation of Indigenous Peoples (FAPI) call for greater recognition of land rights and legislative...
View ArticleA message to the world from the Wampis
30 November, 2015My name is Andres Noningo Sesen, I live in Puerto Galilea, a community in Northern Peruvian amazon. We are Wampis, one of the first peoples. Our ancestral lands cover over 1.3 million...
View ArticleThe Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Paraguay: Their lands and the Laws...
14 December, 2015On 12 November 2015, Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) and its partner in Paraguay, the Federación por la Autodeterminación de los Pueblos Indígenas (FAPI) released a companion set of...
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The National Constitution and Forest Dweller Land Rights in Kenya
Liz Alden Wily 20 January, 2016How the National Constitution treats minorities is a good test of a nation’s maturity. How government applies their rules is a good test of the state’s maturity.New...
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Press Release: Amerindian Peoples Association calls for Government of Guyana...
19 May, 2016GEORGETOWN, May 13, 2016: The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) held its 9th General Assembly on 10-12 May 2016 in the village of Pakuri, Region 4. The main issues discussed during the...
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Behind the Veil: Transparency, Access to Information and Community Rights in...
Forest Peoples Programme Anouska Perram 17 June, 2016In 2010, Cameroon and the European Union signed a Voluntary Partnership Agreement on forest law enforcement, governance and trade in timber and...
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