Category: Environment and Human Rights
TRAINING MANUAL || Integrating Indigenous Peoples’ rights and perspectives in the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
The Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) is engaging with its partners at the national level to “Enhance Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in Implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework at the National Level”. It aims to empower Indigenous Peoples to actively..
General Recommendation No. 39 (GR39) on the Rights of Indigenous Women and Girls
Issued by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in October 2022, provides important guidance and recommendations for the rights and well-being of guidance and recommendations for the rights and well-being of indigenous women and..
Xanharu || Upholding Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Legislation and Jurisprudence: Global, Regional, and National Developments (Issue 4)
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..
Xanharu || Legislation and Jurisprudence: Global, Regional, and National Development (Issue 2)
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..
Implications of COVID-19 and Economic Recovery on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Well-Being
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), which the World Health Organization (WHO) declared as a pandemic in 2020, greatly affected Indigenous Peoples globally, aggravating their pre-existing conditions of racism, discrimination, marginalization, vulnerability, neglect and isolation. On January 19, 2022,..
Implications of COVID-19 and Economic Recovery on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Well-Being
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..
