indigenous rights
This briefing note, published by the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and Forest Peoples Programme, is intended to develop discussion and thought about the complexity of the challenges of violence against indigenous women and girls. Work being done by...
Fifteen organisations working with indigenous women, including Forest Peoples Programme, have joined forces to emphasise the injustice and multiple forms of discrimination suffered by indigenous women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (the Committee). States are required to submit reports to the Committee every four...
Guyana court ruling violates indigenous peoples' rights
Controversial Court decision favours miners over indigenous peoples as country sinks to new low on double standards on human rights and development
On 17 January 2013, the Guyanese High Court ruled in favour of a miner who has a mining concession on titled indigenous lands. The ruling...
There 4.5 million Dalits in Nepal out of a total population of 24 million. This is almost 20 percent of the population. This figure does not include the janajatis, who make up 37 percent of the population. Dalits are discriminated against in both law and fact. Although some protective measures have been introduced in the law of Nepal, but these are not very strong and poorly implemented....
Nepalese society is going through a phase of rapid disintegration, integration and reintegration. The Constituent Assembly overthrew the 240 years old Hindu Monarchy through its declaration on 28 May, 2008, and established a Democratic Republic. Not only did this break away from history and traditional values and norms, but it also directed the nation towards a new epoch in its history. The...
The development of people-oriented sustainable forest management is a key element of the work of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF). Currently the UNFF is developing a “Non-legally Binding Instrument on all Types of Forests” (NLBI) which could have implications for the development of international and national laws and regulations with important ramifications for forest-...
Understanding women’s influence on plant biodiversity is essential to our ability to conserve plant genetic resources, especially those plants that are useful to humans. Contrary to previous thinking, it is becoming clear that women know most about these plants because, throughout history, women’s daily work has required more of this knowledge.
This paper describes how...
Bien que le gouvernement ait signé des accords internationaux protégeant leurs droits, les 2,2 millions d'autochtones du Bangladesh – les Adibashis – sont victimes de préjugés, de discriminations et de violences de la part d’une grande majorité de la communauté bengalie. Ils n’exercent aucun pouvoir et n'ont aucune...
Pese a que el gobierno ha firmado acuerdos internacionales para la protección de sus derechos, los 2,2 millones de indígenas o adivasi de Bangladesh sufren prejuicios, discriminación y violencia estructurales a manos de la mayoría bengalí, y carecen de poder e influencia a nivel comunitario, regional y nacional. Por ello, Oxfam GB y sus 20 organizaciones...
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