With over 93% of natural resource development in emerging economies at risk for land conflict, the global land investment experience has key lessons for India…
As seen on Rainforest Action Network San Francisco, CA – A field-based survey to investigate Asia Pulp and Paper’s (APP) performance, provide input into an…
Tebtebba and CHIRAPAQ: Indigenous Peoples demand participation in national forest monitoring systems
Press release from Tebtebba and CHIRAPAQ Indigenous Peoples point out that the inhabitants of the forest are better qualified than anyone else to understand what…
As seen on Inter Press Service LIMA, Dec 6 2014 (IPS) – The clamor of indigenous peoples for recognition of their ancestral lands resounded among…
As seen on Inter Press Service BALI, Indonesia, Sep 20 2014 (IPS) – When she talks about the forests in her native Kalimantan, the Indonesian part…
Download a PDF of this press release here. More than 60 Indigenous Women from Across the World Come Together to Address their Critical Role in…
We are very pleased to inform you all that the Fifth General Assembly of Federation of Community Forest Users Group (FECOFUN), an umbrella organization of…
Despite headway in addressing land rights violations made in recent years, Stora Enso has yet to fully ensure legality of all lands acquired in the…
International workshop on Deforestation and the Rights of Forest Peoples issues Palangka Raya Declaration After a major inter-continental gathering on Deforestation and the Rights of…
Report and Conference Ask: Will Carbon Rights Trading Become the Next Natural Resource Investment that Separates Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities from their Forests? …
Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia – Indigenous and forest peoples today claimed unique success in keeping the world’s fast shrinking rainforests intact, proven by the fact…
Survey of 1,400 rural women in three states finds that fundamental reforms are needed SEATTLE – The findings of a survey released today from Landesa and UN…
More than three out of every five hectares of forestland still claimed by governments of low and middle income countries; progress on the ground remains…
“This report calls for a new security agenda for Amazonia. Not one focused only on national security in a traditional sense” but rather one that…
The Kenyan government has sent Kenya Forest Service (KFS) guards, with police support, to Embobut Forest in the Cherangany Hills to forcibly and illegally…
Groundbreaking research reveals severe impacts of the Camisea gas project on isolated indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon Oxford, UK–A Forest Peoples Programme report published…
A new report, launched today, shows that efforts by one of Indonesia’s largest palm oil companies, PT SMART, to set aside forests as ‘carbon…
Washington, D.C.—Rights and Resources Group, the coordinating body of the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), is pleased to announce three key additions to its leadership…
New book reveals that their ability to preserve forests is under threat from land grabs by governments and developers WARSAW, Poland—Through the conservation and…
Washington, DC – First Peoples Worldwide released its Indigenous Rights Risk Report at the The SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing. The report analyzed…
Nurman Nuri, Leader of the Suku Anak Dalam group 113 of Pinang Tinggi in the Indonesian province of Jambi, stated in a press conference held…
EPO Must Wait Until RSPO Complaint Has Been Resolved, Publish Standard Operating Procedures on Free, Prior, and Informed Consent and Make Public its Expansion Plans….
Delegates from 40 countries meet to define and map out the way forward PRESS RELEASE Interlaken” Switzerland (20 September” 2013)—At an international conference on community…
News Release Illegal land clearance” logging” bribery and intimidation are just some of the acts controversial US corporation Herakles Farms are accused of in the…