Kenya: William Sipai’s Fight for Maasai Land Rights in Kedong On 14 September 2025, government surveyors escorted by a police battalion arrived in Kedong to install boundary markers on land claimed by the Maasai. Community members moved quickly..
Category: The Global Initiative
Stewards turned into encroachers. LDSF protecting Indigenous communities criminalized for defending land, forests, and collective survival
Stewards turned into encroachers. LDSF protecting Indigenous communities criminalized for defending land, forests, and collective survival “Custodians were turned into trespassers.” For the Ogiek Indigenous Peoples in Kenya, the phrase reflects a painful reality. After winning a..
The ongoing displacement of the Marihangin community and their fight for land recognition in the Philippines
For the Marihangin Indigenous community in the Philippines, legal protection of their territory was meant to safeguard them against dispossession. In practice, the more than two-decade wait for recognition of their ancestral lands has coincided with escalating corporate..
Paraguay: Ayoreo punished for defending their forests amid climate crisis
In the northern Paraguayan Chaco, three Ayoreo leaders are facing criminal charges after being accused by the National Emergency Secretariat (SEN) in the context of the unjust and insufficient state response to a drought and forest fires that..
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In order to facilitate the transfer of funds and thus enable the timely response to approved cases, several options are recommended: OPTION 1: For countries with established National Fund Committees, IPRI shall transfer an earmarked fund to the..
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To facilitate the management of the Fund, the national steering committee, where existing and possible, will establish a national Legal Defense and Sanctuary Fund Committee. This is particularly important in countries which have a wide geographic coverage and..
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The applicant to the Fund should be an active member or leader or an indigenous organization, institution or community; or from an advocate organization working on Indigenous Peoples’ rights and concerns. The applicant shall fill-up the IPRI..
