indigenous communities

Mundo

Defending the Defenders: Recommendations from the conference

"To a large degree, perpetrators of crimes against indigenous peoples continue to act with impunity. We all have an obligation to do our best to stop this. We need to act"

Guatemala

Guatemala: Turning up the heat

Indigenous communities of Guatemala are feeling the effects of deforestation. Increased agriculture, illegal logging and fires have reduced forest cover and rising temperature

Mundo

Indigenous peoples welcome adoption of Green Climate Fund’s Indigenous Peoples Policy

The policy recognizes indigenous peoples’ rights to land, territories and natural resources, their crucial and active contribution to climate change mitigation and adaptation

Birmania

“Maps are more than housing and cultivation areas”

Participatory action research involves the whole community. Elders as well as young people, literates and non-literates, men and women are all included.

Madre de Dios

Mining progress threatens Amarakaeri Communal Reserve

Mining threatens the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve (RCA), reported Walter Quertehuari. He is the new president of the Administration Agreement Executor (ECA, in Spanish) for the RCA, which is currently a model of co-management between the Peruvian...

Madre de Dios

Management of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve (RCA) is renewed and strengthen

The successful model of co-management of the RCA will continue thanks to the renewal of the executive board of the Administration Agreement Executor with the direct participation of 10 native communities.

“We don’t need oil companies here in our communities”