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Joint submission on COVID-19 to the OHCHR - HRC45

45th regular session of the Human Rights Council
14 September to 2 October 2020
Agenda Item 2
Oral update by the HC, oral updates on COVID19

IWGIA and the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) applaud the OHCHR for recognizing the specific vulnerabilities of Indigenous Peoples during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the rights of indigenous peoples presented in the 45th session of the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/45/22). Through this submission we would like to elaborate on this point.

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Submission on the Report of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar

 

45th regular session of the Human Rights Council
14 September to 2 October 2020
Report of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar
Agenda  item 2

IWGIA and AIPP welcome the establishment of the independent investigative mechanism with the mandate to collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence of the most serious international crimes and violations of international law committed in Myanmar since 2011. The report gives a comprehensive overview over the progress till date of the mechanism. We do however notice with regret, that the mechanism seems only to focus on the Rohingya, whereas numerous Indigenous Peoples in Myanmar suffer from countless human rights violations such as illegal land grabbing, evictions, intimidations and threats to their lives. We hope that the mandate will be able to include the plight of these peoples as well.

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IWGIA's submission on the Congo Brazzaville country report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples

 

45th regular session of the Human Rights Council
14 September to 6 October 2020
Item 3
Interactive dialogue with SR on the rights of indigenous peoples
24th of September 2020 
 

IWGIA's submission on the Congo Brazzaville country report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples

https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/45/34/Add.1

The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) welcomes the country report on Congo Brazzaville made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples. The report gives an excellent overview of the legal and policy frameworks for indigenous peoples in Congo Brazzaville and of the dire situation that indigenous peoples in the country are facing. IWGIA also considers the recommendations provided to the government and civil society in Congo Brazzaville – and to international donors and conservations agencies -. extremely relevant and hopes they will be fully implemented. 

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Joint submission on the Human Rights Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Cambodia

 

45th regular session of the Human Rights Council
14 September to 2 October 2020
Agenda Item 2
Country situations information on the human rights situation of Indigenous Peoples in Cambodia

IWGIA and AIPP are happy to learn from the report to the HRC that the OHCHR has been raising awareness and given training to the ministry of Justice staff on non-judicial grievance settlement mechanisms, with a focus on gender-related land rights disputes. And that the support of OHCHR has resulted in dispute resolution between IPs in Mondulkiri and Socfin rubber plantation where most land disputes relating to collective areas have been resolved and will be included in the communities’ applications for communal land titling.

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Joint submission on the situation of the Ogiek to the Human Rights Council's 45th Session

 

45th regular session of the Human Rights Council
14 September to 2 October 2020
Item 3
Submission related to the “Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the rights of indigenous peoples”: https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/45/22
 ( paragraphs 38 and 39)

The Ogiek Peoples Development Programme (OPDP) and the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) note with appreciation that the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has in 2019 provided assistance for the implementation of the African Court ruling on the rights of the indigenous Ogiek people (paragraphs 38 and 39 of the “Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the rights of indigenous peoples”: https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/45/22 )

Since then, the human rights situation of the Ogiek people has seriously deteriorated.  OPDP and IWGIA would like to call on the OHCHR to take action and call on the Government of Kenya to stop these gross ongoing human rights violations.

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