Side Event Concept Note for the UNPFII 2026 relating to the theme, “Ensuring Indigenous Peoples’ health, including in the context of conflict” Title: Land Rights for Better Conservation Outcomes Date: April 20, 2026 Time: 13:15-14:30 Venue: CR-12 Organizers:..
Date: April 22, 2026, Time: 15:00-16:15pm Venue: CR-9, UN Headquarters Language Spoken by Speakers: French, English, Spanish Land and territories are fundamental to the existence, collective survival and development, culture, and spirituality of Indigenous Peoples, constituting the basis..
In the northern Paraguayan Chaco, three Ayoreo leaders are facing criminal charges after being accused by the National Emergency Secretariat (SEN) in the context of the unjust and insufficient state response to a drought and forest fires that..
The Example of Rocky and Dandoy In Quezon Province in the Philippines, Indigenous Dumagat villages have long been subjected to militarization, forced displacement, harassment, and a climate of constant fear. This militarization is closely tied to government..
By Panaghiusa Philippine Network to Uphold Indigenous Peoples’ Rights The Philippines is home to an estimated 14–17 million Indigenous Peoples, whose communities span the archipelago from the Cordillera in the north to Mindanao in the south. Despite constitutional..
In May 2025, the Colombian Constitutional Court issued a landmark ruling recognizing the Je’eruriwa People as a subject of collective reparation and ordering their immediate inclusion in the Unified Registry of Victims, after more than 70 years of..
For generations, the Ogiek Indigenous Peoples have lived in Kenya’s Mau Forest Complex and in parts of Mount Elgon and the surrounding highlands, sustaining themselves through hunting, gathering, and beekeeping, and governing their territories through customary systems rooted..
When Indigenous defenders are criminalized and subjected to violence, the objective is not justice. The objective is silence, intimidation, collective punishment, and dispossession. Criminalization and violence are designed to wear down Indigenous defenders and communities quietly until resistance..
The story of Lumad-Manobo defender Julieta Gomez on International Women’s Day Julieta Gomez spent nearly four years in detention after being accused of crimes that Philippine courts later dismissed for lack of evidence. A Lumad-Manobo Indigenous rights defender..
Different geographies, March 2, 2026. On February 25 of this year, the sentence issued by the First Collegiate Tribunal in Criminal Matters of Oaxaca in the Amparo Directo 631/2022 was published, which absolved Miguel Peralta Betanzos of all..
