In March 2026, RRI launched Moving Rights Forward, a collection of 8 case studies sharing unique insights into the lived realities of pastoralists and Mobile…
RRI will host and participate in various events at Climate Week New York City 2025 (NYCW). We will promote the role of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant…
Welcome to everything related to RRI’s engagements at London Climate Action Week! Happening in London from June 21 to 29, 2025, LCAW is a unique…
Welcome to RRI’s CSW69 agenda! The 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) aims to promote women’s rights by documenting…
For water governance to be truly inclusive and sustainable, it must account for community-based and customary water tenure rights. This session highlights evidence-based governance mechanisms…
As multiple crises engulf humanity and the rest of life, we are groping for ways out. How can we tackle the climate and biodiversity crises, the abysmal chasm between rich and poor, the continued deprivation of a billion people from dignified life, and geopolitical conflicts that threaten to annihilate life on earth? This talk draws from indigenous worldviews like buen vivir, the emergence of more recent alternatives like eco-feminism and degrowth, new interpretations of leftist/Marxist revolution to Gandhian concepts like swaraj, and more to present on alternative practices and visions emerging from the South Asian context and linking movements elsewhere.
The Asia Regional Gender and Tenure Workshop was a two-day workshop held from 23-24 August 2017 at the headquarters of RRI Partner and co-host RECOFTC, in Bangkok, Thailand, which brought together outspoken advocates of gender and tenure in Asia to engage in brainstorming and strategic mapping, to connect existing regional initiatives and issues to global trends in gender and forest tenure, and collectively define key issues facing the region.
The panel will focus on the role and contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in the global struggle to combat climate change. Special attention…
Organized by: The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Indian School of Business (Hyderabad), and the Tata Institute of…
Globally, a strong consensus has emerged on the centrality of recognition of forest rights for local communities and Indigenous Peoples as a core strategy for…
On July 22, RRI, Council for Social Development (CSD), and Vasundhara will launch a new study ton the Potential of Community Forest Resource (CFR) Rights…
This event was webcast live at 12 – 7 pm, 3 September, 2015. A webcast recording can be seen here. India’s growing energy, industry, and…
The IUCN World Parks Congress is a landmark global forum on protected areas held every ten years. As the world’s most influential gathering of people…
OSLO – Q&A discussion on the groundbreaking new report, Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change: How Strengthening Community Forest Rights Mitigates Climate Change. The paper — a joint venture between…
The National Organization of Indigenous Andean and Amazonian Women (ONAMIAP), Interethnic Development Association of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP) and Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) will…
Chatham House and the Rights and Resources Initiative held an expert workshop on ‘Small-scale and community forest producers: challenges and opportunities of legality verification’. This…
Background and Objectives The climate change debate has refocused the world’s attention on forest landscapes. Asia occupies a unique position in this debate…