by admin | 13.08.20 | Uncategorized
‘Kenyan authorities have burned down 28 homes belonging to the indigenous Sengwer community in the Embobut Forest in Western Kenya. “What is happening now is so dangerous, especially during this COVID-19 pandemic,” said Elias Kimaiyo, a Sengwer community leader...
by admin | 13.08.20 | Uncategorized
‘Costa Rica has seen an increase in violence against indigenous communities. The Bribri peoples of Salitre and Brörán peoples of Térraba have repeatedly denounced these attacks to national and international bodies, and both peoples were granted Precautionary...
by admin | 13.08.20 | Uncategorized
‘Today, 20 July, we’d like to say thank you to those who have given their best in the health service; to those who have lost their acquaintances to the pandemic, we offer our our solidarity. Today we remember a cry. A cry that is still necessary. A cry...
by admin | 13.08.20 | Uncategorized
’14 Indonesian indigenous and human rights organisations, and Forest Peoples Programme, have submitted a report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UNCERD) requesting its consideration of the situation of indigenous...
by admin | 13.08.20 | Uncategorized
‘Ompu Ronggur, a community of the Toba Batak, a highland people of North Sumatra with an ancient tradition of resin tapping from their agroforests, found in 2004 that all of their traditional territory had been allotted to a pulp and paper company, Toba Pulp...
by admin | 13.08.20 | Uncategorized
‘In April 2019, Association Okani, an indigenous peoples’ organisation based in Cameroon, in conjunction with Forest Peoples Programme submitted a request for consideration under the CERD Early Warning / Urgent Action Procedure in relation to the grant of a...
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