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Tag: Indigenous Peoples
Can REDD save the Areng Valley in Cambodia?
The Areng Valley in southwest Cambodia has been home to the Chong indigenous people for more than 600 years. The area is also home to elephants, pileated gibbons, clouded leopards, and is one of the most important breeding sites for the endangered Siamese crocodile. But a proposed dam threatens the river, the forests and its…
Threats of violence against Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) in Acre, Brazil
Over the past few weeks, staff at the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) in the state of Acre have faced a series of threats and intimidation. The office has been broken into twice, the room ransacked, a computer taken, files burned, and internet wiring destroyed.
AIDESEP and Rainforest Foundation Norway warn that Peru must improve policy on forests and indigenous peoples
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”.
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.