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25 .05. 2023   |   The Interlaken Group & Rights and Resources Initiative

Press Release: New Resource aims to help Companies and Investors Partner with Indigenous and Local Peoples in their Land-Based Investments and Supply Chains

A new resource seeks to support companies and investors in understanding the shared value community monitoring could add to their operations and investments, and outlines principles to help them build productive partnerships with communities to secure their land tenure and improve compliance with environmental and social standards and commitments.

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24 .05. 2023   |   Madiha Waris Qureshi, with inputs from Dr. Pasang Dolma Sherpa, CIPRED

Nepal’s Tsumba people celebrate 100 years of local Shagya tradition, and new law that recognizes its practice

In Nepal, the local government of Gorkha District’s Tsum Nubri Rural Municipality recently adopted a new law to formally recognize and preserve the local community’s Shagya tradition of nonviolence.

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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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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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11 .01. 2023   |   Gam Shimray, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact & Sandra Cordon, Global Landscapes Forum

Q&A with Indigenous leader Gam Shimray on how rights, biodiversity and the global future are intertwined

On the eve of CoP15, Landscape News spoke with Gam Shimray, Secretary-General of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) who has been defending and promoting the rights of Indigenous Peoples for almost 30 years. Here, he explicates just how deeply rights, biodiversity and the global future are intertwined.

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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.

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16 .11. 2022   |   Rights and Resources Initiative & Dynamique des Groupes des Peuples Autochtones (DGPA)

President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo signs new law to protect Indigenous Pygmy Peoples

President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has signed a historic bill to protect and promote the rights of Indigenous Pygmy Peoples into law. This is the first-ever legislation in the country to recognize and safeguard the specific rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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14 .11. 2022   |   Solange Bandiaky-Badji, RRI Coordinator

On Gender and Water Day at CoP27, women in the Global South make waves

November 14 marks Gender Day and Water Day at CoP27 in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt. We must take a moment to recognize how Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local community women and girls are leaders in climate change mitigation and adaptation and integral to attaining the UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.

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11 .11. 2022   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

At CoP27, 41 grassroots women’s organizations launch new Global South Alliance for Indigenous and local women and girls

On November 11 at CoP27, 41 grassroots women’s organizations from Asia, Africa, and Latin America launched a new advocacy network called the Women in Global South Alliance for Tenure and Climate.

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07 .10. 2022   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

Where’s the money? Dialogue with donors shines light on gaps and opportunities in funding for IPs and LCs

At CoP26 in Glasgow, 22 donors made a historic commitment to contribute $1.7 billion to support Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ rights to their lands and forests. Almost one year later, questions abound over the Pledge’s disbursement, impact, and accessibility.

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14 .09. 2022   |   Rights and Resources Initiative & Rainforest Foundation Norway

New Research: Only 17% of Global Climate and Conservation Funding Intended for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Actually Reaches Them

In this new report, researchers compiled data on this funding stream and assessed the grants along different dimensions of “Fit for Purpose” criteria—determining whether the funding achieved its intended goals or was compromised in delivery and effectiveness.

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24 .08. 2022   |   Monica Orjuela Vasquez, Latin America Regional Facilitator

There is a future if there is truth: The Truth Commission’s final report on the armed conflict in Colombia

Following more than three years of investigation into the armed conflict in Colombia, the Truth Commission, which was created by the signing of the peace agreement between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2016, published the first chapter of its final report on June 28, 2022. This blog post looks at some of its key findings and testimonies.

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05 .08. 2022   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

The Kigali Call to Action at the IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress: Statement from RRI’s Africa Delegation

This July, an RRI delegation participated in the first-ever IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) in Rwanda and included Indigenous and community leaders from the Republic of Congo, the DRC, Liberia, Cameroon, and Kenya. APAC marked a crucial moment in shaping Africa’s conservation agenda and culminated in the Kigali Call to Action. This is our delegation’s response to this Call.

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26 .07. 2022   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

Transforming our relation with nature – Indigenous Peoples’ role for a healthy and just planet

The Stockholm+50 associated event aimed to highlight the role and importance of Indigenous peoples and local communities in safeguarding the world’s forests, ecosystems, and biodiversity. The event was one of three collaborative events held on June 1st at Sida ahead ofStockholm+50, co-arranged by Sida, The Tenure Facility, SwedBio, The Rights and Resource Initiative, and the Focali – SIANI Dialogue Forum.

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13 .07. 2022   |   Nicole Harris, with inputs from Peter Kitelo, Patrick Kipalu and Kendi Borona

In Kenya, the Ogiek of Mt. Elgon are a community on the frontlines of forest conservation

Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) and the Chepkitale Indigenous Peoples' Development Project (CIPDP) organized a site visit to Chepkitale to learn from the Ogiek of Mt. Elgon and shine light on the transformative role of community-led conservation in protecting Kenya's biodiversity-rich forests.

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28 .06. 2022   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

RRI Declaration of Solidarity with the Indigenous rights movement in Ecuador

Rights and Resources Initiative expresses its solidarity with the leaders of the Indigenous rights movement in Ecuador who are being criminalized for exercising their legitimate right to mobilize and defend their human rights.

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27 .06. 2022   |   Mina Beyan, Patrick Kipalu & Kendi Borona

Can Liberia’s Land Rights Law improve community women’s livelihoods?

Long-time RRI collaborator Social Entrepreneurs for Sustainable Development (SESDev) examines how Liberia’s Land Rights Law has impacted women’s land rights and livelihoods since 2018.

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13 .06. 2022   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

New research says 44% of Earth’s land area—inhabited by 1.8 billion people—needs conservation to save biodiversity

A new study led by biologists at University of Amsterdam shows that the minimum land area requiring urgent conservation attention to safeguard Earth’s biodiversity is 64 million square km, equalling 44% of the planet’s terrestrial area.

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11 .04. 2022   |   Edmund Barrow, RRI Fellow

Environmental management is in crisis – Secure rights and community governance can help

Global trade, consumption, population growth, and urbanization drive transformations that, in part, drive nature’s destruction. The World Economic Forum ranks biodiversity loss as a global top-five risk. Clearly, protecting the environment should be high on political and policy agendas—but too often environmental governance is weak and policy implementation neglected.

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29 .03. 2022   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

Effective implementation of the Forest Rights Act can help India secure a just and sustainable pathway to climate change mitigation and adaptation, new study says

India is among the top ten countries most vulnerable to climate change. A new study finds that the Forest Rights Act is an effective tool to enable rights-based and gender-responsive approaches to climate action and can legally empower forest dwellers to manage and govern nearly 40 million hectares of the country's forests.