By Joan Carling, Executive Director, The Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) More than 100,000 Maasai in Tanzania are facing violent attacks to dispossess them of their lands and undermine their livelihoods. Since June, the situation has escalated and..
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Advancing Mandatory Human Rights Due diligence: South perspectives
11th Session of the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights Nov. 28-30, 2023 UN Headquarters, Geneva Switzerland Advancing Mandatory Human Rights Due diligence: South perspectives Joan Carling, Indigenous Peoples Rights International My presentation is from the perspective..
Guatemala: Stop Evictions Against Mayan Communities And Respect Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Over Their Lands, Territories And Resources
The Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI), whose mission is to confront rights violation and criminalization of indigenous peoples with impunity, urgently calls on the State of Guatemala to stop the evictions and aggression by the security forces against..
Adoption of CEDAW Recommendation 39: a bastion in the drive for Indigenous Women’s human rights
Without doubt, coordinated local, regional, national and international work will be key to implementing Recommendation 39 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on Indigenous Women and Girls. Within this framework, a panel discussion was held,..
IPRI Participation in UNFCCC #COP27 Events
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An appeal to the UNFCCC & State parties at COP27: Put human rights at the centre of climate action
To: Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) · Cc: Danielle Magalhaes, Global Climate Action Team Lead, UN Climate Change An appeal to the UNFCCC & State parties at COP27 The climate crisis is..
IPRI, BHRRC & partners: Letter to UNFCCC & State parties pre-COP27 – Invitation to sign on [Deadline by 06/10]
The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre and the Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI), together with a number of allies, have prepared an open letter addressed to UNFCCC and State parties, prior to COP27. The energy transition needs to be just, in particular,..
Criminalization of and Impunity Against Indigenous Peoples Intensify Amid The COVID-19 Pandemic
Over 200 human rights violations incidents were documented in 23 countries from January to July 2020 The Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI), a global indigenous organization championing indigenous rights, raised alarm over the apparent growing global trend of..
URGENT CALL || Free The Maasai Criminalized And Detained With Trumped-up Charges. Stop The Persecution Of Land Defenders!
The Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI), once again, urgently calls on the State of Tanzania to cease and desist from criminalizing the leaders and defenders of the Maasai Indigenous Pastoralists with trumped-up charges. Instead of sowing fear and..
