AIDESEP and Rainforest Foundation Norway welcome the deforestation deal signed between Norway, Germany, and Peru, but warn that Peru must improve its “policy and practices on forests and indigenous peoples’ rights”.
Tag: Indigenous Peoples
Ministry of Forestry obstructs law on indigenous peoples’ rights in Indonesia
In 2003, at its second congress the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN) made its first demands for a special law on indigenous peoples. Since then huge progress has been made on indigenous rights in Indonesia.
World Bank project failed to protect Sengwer indigenous rights. Bank now promises to help “find a lasting, peaceful resolution to this long unfinished business of land rights in Kenya”
Last week, the World Bank’s board met to make a decision on an Inspection Panel report about a Bank project in Kenya. The Inspection Panel’s report accused the Bank of failing to protect the rights of the Sengwer forest indigenous community.
Evictions of Sengwer indigenous people: World Bank violates safeguards in Kenya
The World Bank’s inspection panel has found that the Bank violated its safeguards in a conservation project in the Cherangany Hills in Kenya. Thousands of Sengwer indigenous people have been evicted and their homes burned down.
The New York Declaration on Forests: An agreement to continue deforestation until 2030
How the New York Declaration on Forests came from Davos to New York, via Washington. But skipped Brasilia.