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New serious threats towards the Maasai people of Loliondo in Tanzania

Upcoming International Events:

IWGIA is co-organising events at the High-Level Political Forum 2022, the 50th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC50) and the 15th session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP)

The Working Group on Indigenous Populations / Communities in Africa

In the last 20 years, the Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities (WGIP) became a continental platform for Indigenous rights. Fighting for the Forgotten explores the work of the WGIP with Indigenous Peoples' rights in the African context alongside IWGIA.

The WGIP has collaborated with a wide range of actors, first and foremost with representatives of Indigenous populations/communities. A strong collaboration and partnership with IWGIA was initiated in 2000 and developed over the years, with IWGIA providing essential financial and technical resources to support the work of the WGIP.

IWGIA Senior Advisor Marianne Wiben Jensen reflects on her 20+ years of work with the WGIP in Africa

Working Group on Indigenous Populations / Communities in Africa - Celebrating 20 years of Indigenous leadership, standard-setting and sensitisation

See all the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, WGIP and IWGIA co-produced reports

Latest updates from IWGIA

A new paradigm of climate partnership with Indigenous Peoples: An analysis of the recognition of Indigenous Peoples in the IPCC report on mitigation

On 4 April 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report on Mitigation of Climate Change – the contribution of the Working Group III (WGIII) to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). The report concludes that humanity has the means and technologies to accelerate climate action but that we must act now.

According to the evidence, clean electricity and agriculture/forestry/land use are the main sectors that can enable us to accelerate emission reductions. Acknowledging that these sectors have potential impact on Indigenous Peoples’ lands, territories, and resources, this briefing paper analyses the IPCC report’s findings with regard to the recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ rights, their situations and their role in the mitigation of climate change.

Implementing UN Recommendations on Indigenous Women: Understanding barriers and enablers

In the past two decades, the United Nations has increasingly focused attention on the human rights of Indigenous Peoples. A growing set of UN treaty bodies (TB’s) and mechanisms continually recommend Member States to improve the rights of Indigenous Women.

While numerous recommendations are formulated every session of the TB’s and mechanisms, it is difficult to establish conclusive and direct causal links between recommendations and the legislative or policy changes at the domestic level. This report aims to contribute toward a better understanding of the UN recommendations directed explicitly at the situation of Indigenous Women, and to identify and discuss the obstacles to their implementation.

Debates Indígenas is a joint initiative between IWGIA and Ore. It is a digital magazine that aims to address the struggles, achievements and challenges of Indigenous Peoples, grounded in an understanding and perspective of their territories and communities, bringing academic knowledge and the commitment to activism together into one forum. Our vision is to become a means of communication and reference for Indigenous Peoples, as well as a tool that contributes to the defence of human rights and nature.

Read the latest articles here.

Debates Indígenas in English

Radio Encuentros is IWGIA's Spanish audio resources platform. The radio programmes address different aspects of the situation of Indigenous Peoples and are free to download. (Spanish).

We are continuously digitising and uploading our extensive library of publications