Category: Environment and Human Rights
Xanharu || Upholding Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Legislation and Jurisprudence: Global, Regional, and National Developments
The centuries of struggle by Indigenous Peoples around the world against colonization, forced assimilation and systemic discrimination have resulted in the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) by the UN General Assembly..
TANZANIA || Criminalization of, and human rights violations against Indigenous Peoples in conservation: a country report
Indigenous Peoples and other tribes in Tanzania consider half of the designated wildlife protected areas as their ancestral lands, which currently make up 40 percent of the country’s total land area. There are 657 wildlife protected areas in..
KENYA || Indigenous defenders on the run: a country study on the criminalization of and human rights violation against Indigenous Peoples in conservation
Human rights violations against Indigenous Peoples living within and around conservation and protected areas is a persisting issue in Kenya. Colonial laws on conservation were progressively amended under Kenya’s Constitution of 2010 resulting in laws crafted with specific..
DRC || Governance and management of protected areas: A country report on the criminalization of, and human rights violations against Indigenous Pygmy Peoples
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) covers 60 percent of the 3.6 million km2 Congo Basin Forest, which spans six countries of the African region. Indigenous Pygmy Peoples live by, and from the forests and have maintained ancient,..
NEPAL || Indigenous Peoples in protected areas A country report on criminalization and violation of subsistence occupation and customary rights
Protected areas in Nepal make up 23.39 percent of its total land area. It comprises of national parks, hunting reserves, conservation areas and wildlife reserves. All these areas belong to, if not overlap with the ancestral lands of..
THAILAND || Conservation against customary practices Criminalization of, and human rights violations against Indigenous peoples in Thailand’s protected areas and forest reserves
The laws on environment and natural resources in Thailand restrict and criminalize the customary practices of resource management of Indigenous Peoples, who are referred to as hill tribes. The implementation of these laws are contributing highly to the..
Defending Our Lands, Territories and Natural Resources amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Annual Report
Annual Report on Criminalization, Violence and Impunity Against Indigenous Peoples From 2016 to 2018, the Special Rapporteurs on the situation of human rights defenders on human rights and the environment and on the rights of Indigenous Peoples raised..
2019, Congo: Land Rights Defenders in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The indigenous Pygmy peoples have ties to their land and natural resources. They are primitive peoples who rely on hunting, fishing, gathering and foraging for subsistence. Their lifestyle is unlike that of other social groups like the Bantu,..
