Les populations et les écosystèmes de la République Démocratique du Congo sont laissés pour compte par la manière dont la protection de l'environnement est mise en œuvre. Les populations autochtones...
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Statement: Protected areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo – a broken system
Peoples and ecosystems in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being failed by the way conservation is practised. Indigenous Peoples and local communities face frequent threats of intimidation,...
Costa Rica: Organizaciones internacionales hacen un llamado para que cese la violencia e impunidad en casos de personas defensoras de los pueblos indígenas
En marzo del año pasado, el líder indígena Sergio Rojas, fue asesinado en su hogar tras recibir el impacto de 15 balas. El ataque brutal captó la atención internacional. La semana pasada, el Estado...
Sengwer Women’s Experiences of Evictions
Abstract This report is based on a month’s ethnographic research on Sengwer women’s experience of eviction in Embobut forest - Marakwet County. It focuses on gender issues and how women from...
Annual Report 2015
Forest peoples and indigenous organisations in Asia, Africa, and South and Central America have made considerable progress over the last year in their work to secure their rights. Forest Peoples...
Secure territorial rights of indigenous peoples and traditional knowledge must be central to post-conflict initiatives to save the Colombian Amazon and achieve sustainable development
Bogotá, April 25: A new report “Deforestation and Indigenous Peoples Rights in the Colombian Amazon” co-published by social justice and environmental NGO DEDISE and Forest Peoples Programme (FPP)...
Deforestación, políticas nacionales y derechos de los pueblos indígenas en la Amazonía colombiana
El Asegurar los derechos territoriales y el conocimiento tradicional de los pueblos indígenas son fundamentales para las iniciativas post conflicto destinadas a salvar la Amazonía colombiana y lograr...
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Annual Report 2014
Nearly all forests across the globe are inhabited. The peoples who live there have customary rights and have developed ways of life and traditional knowledge that are attuned to their forest...
Indigenous women and the Inter-American human rights system: a toolkit on mechanisms
Introduction to the Toolkit on the Inter-American Human Rights System for Indigenous Women Author: Ellen-Rose Kambel / Editors: Valerie Couillard and Andrea Galindo Indigenous women in the Americas...
Lessons Learned from the Conflict, Negotiations and Agreement between Senyerang Village and PT Wira Karya Sakti
Communities seeking redress for their lands, grabbed for pulpwood plantations in Sumatra, are let down by resolution process, reveals new report. Jakarta, 19th December 2014: A new report reveals...
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FPP Newsletter October 2014
Forest Peoples Programme 31 October, 2014 The October 2014 issue of the FPP’s newsletter carries stories about forest rights and forest wrongs, as conflicting interests and approaches battle to...
Annual Report 2013
This was a year of positive change for the Ogiek people of Mount Elgon in Kenya. They began a powerful community process to protect their lands, writing down their traditional bylaws, tackling...
Garantir les droits communautaires aux terres et aux ressources en Afrique: guide de réforme juridique et des meilleures pratiques
Ce guide illustre les aspects clé des lois et des droits fonciers essentiels pour garantir la propriété et la contrôle des terres et des ressources par les communautés, exprimés également par le...
Securing community land and resource rights in Africa: A guide to legal reform and best practices
This Guide, produced by FERN, the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), ClientEarth and the Centre for Environment and Development (CED), explains key aspects of law and land rights that are important for...
Kenya defies its own courts: torching homes and forcefully evicting the Sengwer from their ancestral lands
The Kenyan government has sent Kenya Forest Service (KFS) guards, with police support, to Embobut Forest in the Cherangany Hills to forcibly and illegally evict thousands of Sengwer indigenous people...
Imminent forced eviction by Kenya threatens indigenous communities' human rights and ancestral forests
The Kenyan government has sent police troops to Embobut forest area (in Elgeyo Marakwet County, Western Kenya) to forcefully evict thousands of the indigenous inhabitants of the Sengwer and...
"A sweetness like unto death": Voices of the indigenous Malind of Merauke, Papua
This shocking report provides the first detailed field study of communities’ experiences with the Indonesia government’s 2 million hectare Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estare (MIFEE) project...
"We who live here own the land": Customary Land Tenure in Grand Cape Mount, and Community Recommendations for Reform of Liberia's Land Policy & Law
Instances of conflict between communities and large-scale agricultural concessions have recently brought the issues of land and human rights into focus in Liberia, and throughout Africa. Rural...