In July 2009, Navin Rai travelled to the Cherangani Hills in Kenya as part of a delegation of World Bank and Kenyan officials who travelled to the Cherangani Hills in Kenya. At the time Rai was the World Bank’s top adviser on Indigenous Peoples.
Tag: Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Environmental Network: REDD “must be immediately canceled”
Over the past two weeks, the 15th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues took place at the UN headquarters in New York. On 18 May 2016, the Indigenous Environmental Network put out a press release demanding an end to carbon offsets and REDD. It slams the Paris Agreements as “a crime against humanity…
Can REDD save the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo?
A new report by the Forest Peoples Programme finds that “Deforestation and forest degradation have increased in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) despite the government’s commitment to safeguard its forests”.
UN Human Rights Council review on Papua New Guinea: “Yet another wake up call that what is happening in PNG is a human rights catastrophe”
In recent years, Papua New Guinea has handed out 5.5 million hectares of land as Special Agriculture and Business Leases. In addition, the government has issued 10 million hectares in logging concessions. The totally predictable result has been an increase in deforestation, and serious human rights abuses.
Conservation efforts in the Congo Basin are “mostly failing” says new Rainforest Foundation UK report
Conservation efforts in the Congo Basin are mostly failing to protect forests and biodiversity write Rainforest Foundation UK in a new report.