In a significant victory for Indigenous Peoples, AIDESEP helped secure official recognition of the existence of Indigenous Peoples living in voluntary isolation in five areas…
On September 5, the Guatemalan state passed the national ?Framework Law for Regulating the Reduction of Vulnerability, Obligatory Adaptation to the Effects of Climate Change…
In a triumphant decision for Indigenous Peoples movements worldwide, the Court of Appeals in Belize upheld an initial ruling that grants the indigenous Maya people…
On September 26-27, Nitlapan hosted a two day workshop in Managua, Nicaragua, to discuss barriers to securing gender equitable tenure and territorial rights, share best…
Throughout the third quarter of 2013, the Himalayan Grassroots Women’s Association for Natural Resource Management (HIMAWANTI) organized four district level interactions and four community rights…
On September 28-30, FECOFUN and HELVETAS and other members of the RRI Coalition held two timely and critical dialogues in Kathmandu, Nepal, with leaders of…
In July, FECOFUN leaders and other civil society representatives met with government and private sector actors to discuss the role of community forest enterprise (CFE)…
The national Consortium for Agrarian Reform, Konsorsium Pembaruan Agraria (KPA), collaborated with Indonesia?s Television Journalist Association (IJTI) to conduct training for TV journalists on forest…
Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) has released a compilation of studies investigating large scale land acquisitions by agribusiness and their implications for human rights in Southeast…
Organized by Tebtebba, representatives of 17 countries and several resource experts convened in North Sumatra, Indonesia, on August 25-27, to produce the Toba Declaration which…
The 3rd Agribusiness and Human Rights in Southeast Asia workshop brought representatives from National Human Rights Institutions from Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Timor…
On August 14, 21 participants from several civil society organizations and development partners working on land and natural resources policy reform issues in Liberia resolved…
A workshop on the harmonization of sectoral policies, held on July 25-26 in Kribi, promoted the legal recognition of community rights and the need to…
At a high-level meeting in Yaound? on September 12, representatives of the Cameroonian Prime Minister informed participants that a proposed revision of the country?s forest…
TENFOREST?s Gender Study Workshop on the Mining Code, held in Kombisiri on August 23, provided critical insight and recommendations for the inclusion of gender-related issues…
A workshop in Douala on September 23-26 allowed 19 African NGOs (part of the Africa Community Rights Network (ACRN)) to meet and share information on…
On September 18, RRI launched a new landmark analysis highlighting the substantial financial risks faced by investors when key players in large scale land acquisitions…
The Conference on Scaling-Up Strategies to Secure Community Land and Resource Rights, co-convened by RRI, HELVETAS, ILC, Oxfam and IUCN, concluded on a high note…
The 2013 meeting of the Rethinking Forest Regulations Workshop series, held on July 22-26 in Montana, U.S., exposed participants to an effective and innovative regulatory…
PRISMA and the indigenous organization of Panama, COONAPIP, influenced the UN-REDD Program to recognize the importance of respecting the right of Indigenous Peoples to Free…
The Indigenous Peoples of Kichwas de Pastaza presented aterritorial management proposal to the Ecuadorian government. Constructing this proposal strengthened the Indigenous Peoples of Kichwas de…
From June 13 to 15, Forest Trends supported a workshop in Acre, Brazil in the Indigenous Territory Rio Gregorio of the Yawanawa People. This workshop…
A recent commitment to establish operational titling guidelines for community land recognition in coordination with local communities by the Peruvian Ministry of Agriculture in charge…
RRI collaborator NITLAPAN is now the lead organization in the North Autonomous Region of Nicaragua (RAAN) to relay the agreements made between the Indigenous Peoples?…