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15 .05. 2023   |   Network of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities for the Sustainable Management of Central African Forest Ecosystems (REPALEAC) and Rights and Resources Initiative

Press Release: Indigenous and local community women from Central Africa and the Congo Basin call for direct access to funding to help their efforts to achieve 30×30 goals

Women leaders from Africa, Asia, and North and South America gather in Brazzaville to strengthen the global solidarity movement for women-led initiatives to protect biodiversity and build climate resilience.

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20 .04. 2023   |   By Daiana Gonzalez, with inputs from Omaira Bolaños and Lorene Moran Valenzuela

Paving the way forward: The Women in Global South Alliance holds its first strategic meeting

Members of the new network agree to create more documentation on land rights and governance processes for Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local community women; call for strengthening advocacy capacity.

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13 .03. 2023   |   Kris Ayu Madina and Nurkholipah, with Anne-Sophie Gindroz

Collective Land to Support Peasants’ Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Indonesia

P2B, a peasants' organization based in Banten, Indonesia, is a leading actor in the local struggle for agrarian reform and collective land tenure rights.

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01 .03. 2023   |   Madiha Waris Qureshi with inputs from Dr. Pasang Dolma Sherpa, CIPRED

Indigenous community in Nepal wins recognition for customary practice to protect nature and biodiversity

Nepal's Indigenous Tsum Nubri community achieves a key legislative victory in maintaining traditional methods of forest governance.

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17 .02. 2023   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

Catalyzing Rights-Based Conservation for a Secure Planet

RRI marked the beginning of 2023 with a global dialogue on Rights-Based Conservation and Climate Approaches, co-hosted with the Embassy of Sweden in Washington DC.

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07 .12. 2022   |   Rights and Resources Initiative, Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership & ICCA Consortium

Press Release: Pre-CoP15 Dialogue Initiates North-South Collaboration on Indigenous and Community Leadership in Conservation

Indigenous and community leaders from North America and the global South come together to build relations and strengthen a global solidarity movement around Indigenous and community-led responses to the global biodiversity and climate crises.

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01 .12. 2022   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

Dialogue on Indigenous and community leadership in conservation: Enhancing North–South collaboration for the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

On December 6, RRI, the Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP), and the ICCA Consortium—in partnership with the Canadian Research Chair in Human Rights, Health, and the Environment, Montreal International and the Christensen Fund—will co-host a pre-COP15 dialogue on Indigenous and community leadership in conservation.

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24 .11. 2022   |   Patrick Kipalu, RRI’s Africa Program Director

To achieve 30×30, we must leverage the cultural diversity of Africa to craft new conservation models that put people at the center alongside nature

This keynote address was shared in person on July 21, 2022 at the IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress in Kigali, Rwanda. Patrick calls on governments to leverage the cultural diversity of Africa to craft new conservation models that legally recognize and secure the tenure rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities as a just and viable solution to the global biodiversity crisis.