Open Letter to the members of the OECD Responsible Business Conduct Committee Over 100 human rights and environmental organisations from more than 55 countries, including Indigenous, Afro-descendant and other land-connected peoples and communities, have sent an Open Letter..
Despite funding cuts and shrinking civic space, Indigenous leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean arrived in Panama with a clear message: Indigenous rights cannot remain policy commitments on paper. The next decade must focus on implementation,..
Washington, D.C., April 14, 2026 — Despite years of policy commitments, the gap between recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ rights and actually respecting them on the ground remains wide. That was the central message at a high-level session during the World..
For the Marihangin Indigenous community in the Philippines, legal protection of their territory was meant to safeguard them against dispossession. In practice, the more than two-decade wait for recognition of their ancestral lands has coincided with escalating corporate..
The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (“the Committee”) is the expert body that monitors compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (“ICESCR”). This human rights treaty has 171 state parties..
Large-scale business operations affecting the traditional territories of indigenous peoples are one of the main sources of violations of their individual and collective human rights. International and regional human rights bodies have repeatedly expressed deeps concern about the..
Dear All, I am pleased to share with you this Briefing Paper of the Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) on Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and Business Activities. This was prepared as our contribution to the 21 st session..
The UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples: Progress achieved, the implementation gap and challenges for the next Decade In many countries of the Global South, transnational corporations wield more economic and even political..
