A message from the Forest Peoples Programme Director Marcus Colchester about the 2010 Annual Report: It is an old English custom that on your 21st…
Dear Readers” We’re nearing the middle of the International Year of Forests. The launch celebrations have subsided” but they left the forestry world with a…
In it's last meeting on 5 May” the Rights and Resources Initiative Board of Directors unanimously endorsed the induction of the Centre for Environment and…
In a new report by Transparency International”
Dear Friends” Closing the gap between international human rights law and realities on the ground is the most important challenge facing forest peoples. Advances in…
Dear Readers” Happy New Year to readers in Cambodia” Lao PDR” Myanmar” and Thailand! Before the festivities” Bangkok is hosting the United Nations climate change…
New research by RRI Partner IFRI” highlighted this week in Science” finds that there is a greater likelihood of a forest providing higher subsistence livelihood…
Press Release from RRI Partner PRISMA on the publication of a report on REDD+ written in conjunction with the Cabal Group: Despite worrisome trends in…
DALAT” Vietnam (23 March 2011) – A new report launched today at the 8th meeting of the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) reveals…
A three-part documentary produced by RRI and partner organization Intercooperation as a result of an ideas exchange workshop held last year among indigenous organizations from…
Precedent-setting land deal in palm oil expansion zone in Borneo PONTIANAK – A new oil palm plantation being developed in Indonesian Borneo (West Kalimantan) has…
Dear Readers” Throughout the region” stories continue to emerge of local people struggling to access forests. This month” headlines from Cambodia” India” Indonesia” and Thailand…
Led by RRI Collaborator IUCN” with support from coalition members CED and FPP” the Cameroon coalition provided key support and mobilization of Central African indigenous peoples at…
Dear Friends” The pressure on forest peoples’ lands continues but – asserting their right to self-determination – these peoples are far from being passive victims…
PEOPLE AND FORESTS E-NEWSFEBRUARY 2011 Dear Readers” With official launch of the United Nations International Year of Forests this month” international organizations responded to a…
In Guatemala City on October 28″ 2010″ RRI Collaborator
The Rights and Resources Initiative is pleased to offer a LIVE WEBCAST of the Ninth Dialogue on Forests” Governance and Climate Change” 09:30-17:30 [GMT] from…
As written by Andrea Lunt for Inter Press Service on 7 February 2011. UNITED NATIONS” Feb 7″ 2011 (IPS) – Political leaders have committed to…
In July 2011 Forests and People: Property” Governance” and Human Rights will be released to present a comprehensive analysis of the rights-based agenda in forestry”…
As written by Andrea Lunt for the Inter Press Service on 27 January 2011. UNITED NATIONS” Jan 27 (IPS) – Earlier this month” on a…
Schedule for the RRI/ACICAFOC Side Event at the 9th Session of the UN Forum on Forests” to be held on January 28″ 2011: The Potential…
On November 30th” 2010″ in a side event at the COP16 in Cancun” Mexico” the Mesoamerican Community Carbon Reservoir” MesoCarbon” was launched by the newly…