COP 23: AIDESEP invites to participate in the event of indigenous peoples
7 Nov 2017 - 13:11They will share alternatives about sowing and harvesting water, polycultures, recovery of traditional seeds, Full Life Plans and economies, live holistica management of...
Current risks and challenges to the physical and cultural survival of indigenous peoples in Latin America
26 Oct 2017 - 23:38The majority of Latin American States voted in favor of the UN Declaration, which represents the current international opinion on the fundamental human rights of indigenous.
New green powers in the global land grab violate indigenous peoples’ rights
17 Oct 2017 - 00:29Mining, logging and other extractive industries have traditionally been some of the main threats to indigenous peoples’ land. But new and green powers have entered the race...
Three key issues for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Peru
12 Oct 2017 - 11:51Right to communication, protection of peoples in isolation and safeguards in REDD+ projects are three key issues for review in human rights that Peru will have in November.
Peru urged to ban oil firms from isolated indigenous peoples' land
9 Oct 2017 - 00:06The biggest dangers - in terms of outsiders entering their territories, exploiting resources and/or actively seeking contact - are oil and gas companies, loggers and logging..
Tenure Facility officially launched as international foundation
4 Oct 2017 - 20:08After 7 years of design and operational tests, the Tenure Facility has became an independent non-profit foundation and has already been registered in Stockholm on October 3rd.
Thailand: Karen villagers win lawsuit against mining company
21 Sep 2017 - 11:57After 19 years of dispute, Karen villagers from lower Klity village in Kanchana Buri, Thailand, won a lawsuit against a lead mining company.
Danish Minister: We made a promise ten years ago
19 Sep 2017 - 06:24Ulla Tørnæs: "I believe that Denmark has a good story to tell when we look at our cooperation with Greenland. Our government, as well as our Parliament, have been focusing on"
A dramatic call to defend the TIPNIS
16 Ago 2017 - 05:10National Encounter denounces tnat the Goverment “has lost respect for indigenous territories exposing them to the interests of transnational capital and other social sectors".
‘Indigenous peoples are the best guardians of world's biodiversity’
16 Ago 2017 - 02:18The UN Declaration "is a framework for justice and reconciliation between Indigenous Peoples and states, and applies international human rights standards to the specific...
Indigenous Peoples' Day: More visibility pairs with harder criminalisation
10 Ago 2017 - 02:24Only in 2015, a third of the murders related to territorial defense were indigenous leaders from Latin America. This escalation of violence is not accidental, given the fact..
$1bn to clean up the oil in Peru’s northern Amazon
8 Ago 2017 - 00:06The impacts on the Achuar, Kichwa, Kukama, Quechua and Urarina indigenous peoples living in this region have been appalling: contaminated rivers, streams, lakes, lagoons, soil
Indigenous communicators and spokespeople ask for monitoring climate funds
12 Jun 2017 - 12:56About 50 indigenous communicators and spokespeople from the peruvian region of Ucayali, concluded a three-day training program, which main focus was the Amazonian forests...
Canadian oil firm pulls out of national park in Peru's Amazon
26 Abr 2017 - 01:00Pacific signed a contract for the concession in 2007, the year after a significant chunk of it had been declared a supposedly “protected natural area” but eight years before..
‘The river is life’ - a photographer among the Arawete in Brazil
2 Abr 2017 - 04:12The Araweté, living in the Xingu basin in the state of Pará, established sustained “contact” in the late 1970s after their land was opened up by the so-called TransAmazon...
NO to the ethnocide of the Amazonian indigenous peoples
27 Mar 2017 - 08:40Through a public announcement, AIDESEP denounced a series of political measures that affect seriously the indigenous peoples integrity and survival.
Pope Francis calls on governments to pay greater attention to indigenous identity
25 Feb 2017 - 17:34Pope Francis stressed the need to reconcile development, both social and cultural, with the protection of indigenous peoples and their territories, "especially when...
Pope says indigenous people must have final say about their land
21 Feb 2017 - 08:54Francis, the first Pope from Latin America, struck a rather different note - for indigenous peoples around the world, for land rights that mean something in practice, for...