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..
Category: Environment and Human Rights
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,..
