Posts tagged Indigenous rights
Campaign for Nature condemns recent violence and evictions in Tanzania

Campaign For Nature

June 20, 2022
The Campaign for Nature condemns the horrific reports of Tanzanian security forces violently evicting peoples from their ancestral lands and territories in the Ngorongoro District. The reported shootings, arrests of community leaders, and hundreds of people being forcibly driven from their homes is abhorrent.

We call for the immediate cessation of the violence, intimidation and evictions; for the perpetrators of violence to be held accountable; and for the rights of the Maasai to their lands and to their internationally recognized Indigenous rights to be respected.

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Indigenous lands, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous rights, violence, human rightsMary PriceIndigenous Peoples, IPLCs, Maasai, Indigenous rights, land rights, human rights, Tanzania
Uncontacted Amazon tribes endangered in Peru, Brazil -indigenous group

Reuters

December 8, 2021
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, the world's largest area containing isolated and uncontacted tribes is under increasing threat from illegal logging and gold mining, advancing coca plantations and drug trafficking violence, a new report warns.

An undetermined number of indigenous people that could number several thousand inhabit a vast swathe of forest twice the size of Ireland that overlaps the Brazil-Peru border.

Their longhouses in jungle clearings have been spotted from planes but encounters with outsiders or clashes with invaders are anecdotal.

In the most comprehensive study to date of the so-called Javari-Tapiche corridor, to be published on Thursday in Lima, a Peruvian indigenous organization says the world's largest number of uncontacted people are in danger.

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Amazon, Indigenous lands, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous rights, South AmericaMary PriceBrazil, Peru, South America, development, Indigenous lands, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous rights, Amazon
Indonesian court delivers victory for Indigenous rights in Papua

Al Jazeera

December 7, 2021
An Indonesian court has delivered a landmark victory for Indigenous rights in a case that pitted West Papuan activists against several palm oil companies.

The Jayapura Administrative Court in West Papua Province on Tuesday ruled in favour of a district head who had revoked permits allowing more than a dozen palm oil companies to operate in Indigenous forest areas and turn them into plantations.

Johny Kamuru, head of Sorong Regency, cancelled the permits after Indigenous groups said they had not consented to the conversion of their ancestral lands into palm oil concessions and a review by the provincial government recommended they be revoked in February 2021.

Three of the companies affected took legal action against Kamaru, including PT Papua Lestari Abadi and PT Sorong Agro Sawitindo, whose bid to have their permits reinstated was rejected by the court.

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Indonesia, Indigenous rights, Indigenous lands, Indigenous PeoplesMary PriceIndigenous Peoples, Indigenous rights, Indonesia, industrial agriculture, palm oil, West Papua
Indigenous peoples and local communities, key to achieving biodiversity goals

EurekAlert

May 21, 2021
An international study led by the ICTA-UAB states that recognizing indigenous peoples' and local communities' rights and agency is critical to addressing the current biodiversity crisis

Policies established by the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) could be ineffective if the rights and agency of indigenous peoples and local communities are not recognized and fully incorporated into biodiversity management. This is supported by an international study led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) and recently published in the journal Ambio.

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Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous lands, Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous rights, CBDMary PriceIndigenous Peoples, Indigenous lands, Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous rights, Convention on Biological Diversity, Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
Brazil’s Bolsonaro vowed to work with Indigenous people. Now he’s investigating them

Mongabay

May 4, 2021
A week since the Climate Leaders Summit, where Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro pledged to work with Indigenous peoples to protect the Amazon, his government is being accused of acting to intimidate them.

At least two prominent Indigenous leaders in the country have recently been summoned for police questioning for criticizing the government, raising concerns from human rights organizations, politicians, celebrities and academics about Bolsonaro’s abuse of power and the undermining of freedom of expression.

Sônia Guajajara, one of the top Brazilian Indigenous activists and head of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) — the country’s main Indigenous association — was called on April 26 to appear before the federal police to testify in a probe for allegedly “slandering” Bolsonaro’s government.

“The persecution by this government is unacceptable and absurd. They will not silence us,” Guajajara said on an April 30 Twitter post.

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Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous Peoples, South America, Indigenous rightsMary PriceIndigenous Peoples, Indigenous rights, human rights, Brazil