As seen on Intercontinental Cry Magazine Vancouver, BC (June 26, 2014): The Tsilhqot’in Nation welcomes the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision overruling the BC Court…
As seen on LaInfo The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador on Thursday ratified a constitutional reform that recognizes indigenous peoples and commits the state to…
As seen on El Nuevo Herald. LA PAZ, Bolivia — Un grupo de indígenas amazónicos de varios países ha demandado respeto a la madre tierra y a…
As seen on the Financial Times Sir, “Congo to world: pay us $1bn to save our rainforests . . . or else” (May 20) paints a stark picture. The…
As seen on Intégration Las d’attendre le changement promis par les organisations de la société civile, certains peuples autochtones doutent de plus en plus de leur volonté…
BUEA, Cameroon (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Cameroon’s government is due to introduce legal reforms by the end of the year to redress weaknesses in its two-decade-old forestry legislation. The new forest code will better protect rainforests and the rights of indigenous communities that rely on them, officials say.
As seen on Portugal News Dados divulgados no relatório permitem concluir que 1,3 mil milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo dependem das florestas para…
Photo: Frontier Cambodia Forest via Creative Commons As seen on IIED Governments, donors and investors must bolster locally-controlled forest businesses if they wish to deliver…
As seen on Global Witness As the trial of more than 50 indigenous leaders gets underway in Peru, Global Witness urges the government to ensure…
As seen on the New Internationalist From 6 to 8 May, agribusiness corporations courted African governments at the Grow Africa Investment Forum in Abuja, Nigeria,…
As seen on UNOG Geneva, 8 May 2014 — The Human Rights Council today appointed 19 human rights experts to serve as United Nations Special Procedure mandate…
As seen on The East African: Arguably, there is no other continent on the planet that has more at stake in the discussions to determine…
As seen on CIFOR: This CIFOR Occasional Paper presents research results on challenges experienced by proponents in their efforts to establish REDD+ subnational initiatives in…
As seen on Nature The Peruvian Amazon is an important arena in global efforts to promote sustainable logging in the tropics. Despite recent efforts to…
As seen on Forest Trends About the Conference Just months before Lima hosts over 190 countries to advance international climate negotiations at COP 20, Katoomba…
Comme on le voit sur Radio Okapi La République démocratique du Congo (RDC) pourrait signer les premiers contrats de vente de crédit carbone en 2016, a…
As seen in the New York Times Re “Losing ground in the Amazon” (April 16): Your editorial draws welcome attention to the sudden jump in…
As seen on TerraNullius Alexandre Corriveau-Bourque is a Tenure Analyst with the Rights and Resources Initiative, and one of the lead researchers of “What Future for…
Open Working Group urged to consider land rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities as indicators of global progress Washington, D.C. (17 April, 2014)—A new…
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…
As seen on Reuters BEIJING/LONDON, Apr 11 (Reuters) – Chinese owners of clean energy projects say European firms have since 2011 defaulted on potentially hundreds…
As seen on Plustv Belize Maya Communities Win Judgment in Court On Thursday morning in Belize City, the Maya of southern Toledo descended on the…
Although Indigenous Peoples and local communities have legal ownership of over 33 percent of Latin America’s forests, overlapping claims to their lands continue. In an…
As seen on Reuters Government officials in forest-rich developing countries are more concerned about their nation being treated fairly in international negotiations on REDD+ than about…