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Global Report || Redefining Protected Areas: A Study on the Criminalization of and Human Rights Violations Against Indigenous Peoples in Conservation
As part of its work to confront criminalization of, and human rights violations against Indigenous Peoples, the Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) decided to contribute to the ongoing calls for a human rights-based approach to conservation. As a..
Global Report || Redefining Protected Areas: A Study on the Criminalization of and Human Rights Violations Against Indigenous Peoples in Conservation
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Hearing the human: Ensuring due diligence legislation effectively amplifies the voices of those affected by irresponsible business
IPRI, in partnership with Business and Human Rights Resource Center, PRODESC, Frontline Defenders and the ALLIED coalition, produced a policy brief: ‘‘Hearing the human: Ensuring meaningful due diligence legislation effectively amplifies the voices of those affected by irresponsible..
Findings and Recommendations: Redefining Protected Areas
As part of its advocacy against the criminalization of and human rights violations against Indigenous Peoples, the Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) is committed to contribute in advancing a human rights-based approach to conservation. With this objective, we..
Findings and Recommendations: Redefining Protected Areas
As part of its advocacy against the criminalization of and human rights violations against Indigenous Peoples, the Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) is committed to contribute in advancing a human rights-based approach to conservation. With this objective, we..
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..
