As seen on Al Jazeera By Saif Khalid It took eight days of walking for 80-year-old Dhanmatya Mumat to reach New Delhi. Like thousands of other…
Download a PDF of this statement here. Washington, DC (March 4, 2015) — The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) Coalition joins local and international NGOs…
As seen on Forest Peoples Programme 27 February, 2015 Dear Colloquium Organizers, The Government of Kenya and the World Bank have invited us and other…
As seen on South China Morning Post China will spend about 26 billion yuan (HK$33 billion) to help identify and register the contractual rights over the…
As seen on Mongabay Countries poised to receive World Bank funds for achieving reductions in deforestation have insufficient safeguards for ensuring that local communities don’t…
As seen on the Times of India NEW DELHI: At the time when government is looking at various options to change green laws to make…
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 Down to Earth. Globally, forest governance is undergoing reforms to benefit from community forestry MEXICO AND India are worlds apart, both in…
As seen on Inter Press Service LIMA, Dec 6 2014 (IPS) – The clamor of indigenous peoples for recognition of their ancestral lands resounded among…
Download the Joint Opinion Brief about the World Bank’s safeguards process here. In October 2012, the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) and the Ateneo School of…
As seen on Redd Monitor Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, Robert Redford, Ian Somerhalder. These are the big names that…
As seen on Thomson Reuters Foundation In 1864, one hundred and fifty years ago, idyllic Yosemite Valley in California was set aside by the US as…
Nature is Speaking, a new campaign from Conservation International, uses celebrity voices to personify natural forces — Penelope Cruz is water, Kevin Spacey is the…
Download the full report here. LIMA, PERU (30 October, 2014)—In an analysis of almost 73,000 concessions in eight tropical forested countries, more than 93 percent…
Four networks of institutions in Peru – Colectivo Territorios Seguros para las Comunidades del Perú, la Plataforma de Ordenamiento Territorial, Red Muqui and la Plataforma…
Este decreto representa un hito histórico hacia la consolidación de los territorios indígenas como entidades estatales. Con la expedición de este decreto, el Gobierno adopta…
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…
Joint Civil Society Statement for the 36th Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers of Agriculture and Forestry “Regional Civil Society Dialogue to Improve Food Security, Agriculture…
The outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, which will be discussed and…
As seen on Inter Press Service By Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON, Sep 18 2014 (IPS) – Starting next year, a new grant-making initiative will aim to fill…
As seen on BBC By Mark Kinver, Environment reporter, BBC News Recognising the land rights of local people could provide cost-effective protection for many of…
As seen on Thomson Reuters Foundation By Megan Rowling BARCELONA, Sept 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Sweden plans to announce at the U.N. climate summit…
As seen on Mongabay Since 2008, governments have invested $1.64 billion in funds to kick-start REDD+, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, the global effort…
58 percent of Nepal’s land is currently held by the government in the name of conservation, often displacing and leaving the country’s diverse and widespread…