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Knowledge generation is an important foundation for increasing understanding and for pushing for change. In this database, you can find all of our resources, which include books, manuals, briefings, human rights reports and urgent alerts. 

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We Have Rights: A Community Guide for Indigenous Peoples on the 2009 ADB Safeguard Policy Statement and Accountability Mechanism

Publisher: AIPP
Number of pages: 111
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Asia
Release year: 2013
This guide is a tool for advocacy work and community actions. It focuses on the Asian Development Bank Safeguard Policy Statement of 2009 (ADB 2009 SPS) particularly its safeguard requirements for Indigenous Peoples. In addition, it features the ADB Accountability Mechanism of 2012 and contains the principles and process of the Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC). Understanding the subject ar...
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Briefing Paper: Indigenous Women in Asia - Challenges in their access to justice

Publisher: AIPP
Number of pages: 36
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Thailand, Tailandia, Laos, Cambodia, Camboya, Philippines, Filipinas, Malaysia, Malasia
Region publication is about: Asia
Release year: 2013
This briefing paper is prepared as part of the advocacy of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) for the respect, protection and recognition of the human rights of indigenous women. In this paper, the focus is on access to justice for indigenous women in Southeast Asia facing development-induced violence. We draw on the results of the Southeast Asia Regional Consultation on Development, Access t...
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Violence, Customary Law and Indigenous Women’s Rights in Asia

Publisher: AIPP
Number of pages: 24
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Asia
Release year: 2012
The briefing paper analyses how gender relations in Asian indigenous societies have undergone and continue to undergo changes in response to external factors. Finally it draws conclusions and recommendations based on addressing problems through empowering indigenous women in traditional customary institutions. Values and gender relations of the dominant mainstream society which indigenous peoples ...
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Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls: A Complex Phenomenon

Publisher: AIPP & Forest Peoples Programme (FPP)
Number of pages: 12
Publication language: English
Release year: 2013
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 indigenous women’s organisations in Asia and around the world has increasingly drawn attention to the need for specific analysis and understand...
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Indigenous Peoples and Corporate Accountability in the ASEAN

Publisher: IWGIA & AIPP
Number of pages: 50
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia, Camboya, Philippines, Filipinas, Malaysia, Malasia
Region publication is about: Asia
Release year: 2012
Due to the increasing and expanding operations of multinational corporations in indigenous peoples’ territories, the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) conducted this study on the business practices of these corporations in indigenous peoples’ territories. The study focuses on the operations involving rubber, cassava and oil palm plantations, hydropower dams and mining in Cambodia, Indonesia,...
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Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change Adaptation in Asia

Publisher: AIPP
Number of pages: 24
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Asia
Financially supported by: IWGIA, Swiss Agency fpr Development and Cooperation SDC, Misereor
Release year: 2012
This briefing paper draws on Indigenous Peoples’ issues and concerns relating to climate change adaptation. It analyses two cases: the adaptation practices among the Tangkhul Naga Community in the North Eastern Region of India and the traditional adaptation practices of Pidlisan-Kankanaeys of Sagada,Mountain Province and Ikalahan-Kalanguya of Caraballo Mountains,Cagayan Valley of the Philippines...
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Briefing paper on REDD+, Rights and Indigenous Peoples: Lessons from REDD+ Initiatives in Asia

Publisher: AIPP & IWGIA
Author: Christian Erni; Pasang Dolma Sherpa (Nepal, SES), Nok Ven and Bunhieng Hean (Cambodia), Luong Thi Truong; Shree Kumar Maharjan (Vietnam), Eak Bahadur Rana (Nepal, Carbon Trust Fund), Lakpa Nuri Sherpa and Joan Carling
Number of pages: 31
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Asia
Financially supported by: The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), The Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Release year: 2012
This briefing paper aims to outline the lessons learn from the Cancun Agreement and explores how far the REDD+ countries in Asia have advanced in addressing social and environmental issues in their REDD+ strategy drafting. From asking which experiences indigenous peoples have made so far in engaging with REDD+, the briefing paper reflects on a few piloting initiatives which have been found particu...
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REDD+ Implementation in Asia and the Concerns of Indigenous Peoples

Publisher: IWGIA & AIPP
Number of pages: 28
Publication language: English
Release year: 2010
This report provides an overview on indigenous peoples in five of REDD+ countries in Asia: Indonesia, Nepal, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand, together with the status of the program’s implementation in each one. The report also elaborates on the concerns of indigenous peoples in the current ‘readiness phase’ and on REDD+ national strategies, providing recommendations on ways forward for REDD+. It...
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What is REDD+? A Guide for Indigenous Communities - 3rd Edition

Publisher: AIPP, FPP, IWGIA & Tebtebba
Author: Eleonor Baldo-Soriano, Joan Carling, Raymond de Chavez, Christian Erni, Francesco Martone, Helen Tugendhat. The writers would like to thank Tom Griffiths, Delbert Rice, Lakpa Nuri Sherpa, Sille Stidsen and Victoria Tauli-Corpuz for their contributions and advice
Number of pages: 120
ISBN number: 978-87-92786-22-7
Publication language: English
Financially supported by: The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation and The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Swiss Development Cooperation
Release year: 2012
This book seeks to help indigenous communities and their organisations to provide their people with basic information on REDD+. It is intended as a guide in understanding climate change, REDD+ and how they relate to the recognition and exercise of the collective rights of indigenous peoples. As a guidebook for communities, the content is simplified and accompanied by illustrations and photos for ...
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The Forest is Life: Knowledge for Communities

Publisher: AIPP & IWGIA
Number of pages: 26
Publication language: English
Release year: 2012
Climate change is a commonly discussed issue nowadays and has become an environmental problem-affecting people throughout the world. Climate change is resulting in shifting weather patterns and other global effects such as unseasonal rains that affect agriculture, droughts, increased temperatures, floods, plagues and diseases. Global warming is mainly the result of rising CO2 level in the earth’...
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Manual on Basic Financial Management for Indigenous Peoples' Organizations in Asia

Publisher: AIPP
Number of pages: 126
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Asia
Release year: 2012
This manual on basic financial management is the fifth of a series of training resource materials developed by the Indigenous Learning Institute for Community Empowerment (ILI) under the Regional Capacity Building Programme of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP). The Manual was drafted in response to the need of AIPP members and partners to build their skills in financial management and admini...
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Community Organising training manual

Publisher: AIPP & Partners Of Community Organisations (PACOS TRUST)
Number of pages: 254
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Asia
Release year: 2012
This manual is based on the experience of providing community organising training in Cambodia, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Peninsular Malaysia for which PACOS Trust (a local organisation in Sabah, Malaysia) provided the COT Manual 2005 as a resource book for the training through the Indigenous Community Organising and Leadership Training (ICOLT) project of Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) Foundat...
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Education Manual on Indigenous Elders and Engagement with Government

Publisher: ILI, CPA, AIPP
Number of pages: 138
ISBN number: 978-616-91258-2-2
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Asia
Financially supported by: IWGIA, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Inter-Church Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO)
Release year: 2012
This Education Manual on Indigenous Elders and Engagement with Government is meant for indigenous elders, leaders, organizers, and indigenous peoples' representatives in government, who desire to be of service to the interest of indigenous peoples. The manual aims to build and strengthen the capacity of indigenous elders in Asia to lead their communities during contemporary times, wherein indigeno...
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Learn and exercise your rights: A simplified version of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)

Publisher: AIPP
Number of pages: 32
Publication language: English
Release year: 2013
This booklet presents in a simple and illustrative manner, the collective rights of indigenous peoples as contained in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). It is intended as an educational tool for communities to understand indigenous peoples' rights and to know what they can do to promote and protect their rights. While indigenous peoples are five percent ...
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Leadership training for Indigenous peoples

Publisher: AIPP, IWGIA & CPA
Number of pages: 210
Publication language: English
Release year: 2011
This leadership training (LT) manual is intended to build the capacity of indigenous peoples’leaders, communities and organizations to lead and manage their organizations. The trainingfocuses on leadership principles and organizational management.It provides knowledge and skills needed by indigenous peoples in leading and running their organizations. It also includes skills on advocacy for the r...
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Overview of the State of Indigenous Peoples in Asia

Publisher: AIPP
Number of pages: 20
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Asia
Release year: 2012
Release Month | Day: May
Two-thirds of the approximate 370 million self-identified indigenous peoples are in Asia, enriching the region’s enormous cultural and linguistic diversity. They have strong cultural attachment to and livelihood dependence on land, forests and waters, and the natural resources therein. They have unique collective historical connections with, and ownership of their territories that have continuou...
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Rights in Action. Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) for Indigenous Peoples

Publisher: AIPP
Number of pages: 8
Publication language: English
Release year: 2013
Release Month | Day: Mar-01
The comic book and video explain the basis of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), a mechanism and a process wherein indigenous peoples undertake their collective decision on matters that affects them. Our partner Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact Foundation (AIPP) has increasingly published innovative material on indigenous issues as comic books and animation videos translated into local languages...
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A Training Manual on Advocacy, Lobbying and Negotiation Skills for Indigenous Peoples in Climate Change and REDD+

Publisher: AIPP & IWGIA
Number of pages: 97
ISBN number: 978-616-91258-7-7
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Asia
Financially supported by: The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), and the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC)
Release year: 2013
Indigenous peoples assert that rights cannot be compromised and have recognized the need to strengthen existing skills and capacities for lobbying and advocacy. This manual aims to fulfill this need and seeks to develop a new generation of indigenous leaders who can advocate for indigenous peoples in climate change negotiations, including REDD+ processes. Indigenous peoples have proactively engage...
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Who we are: Indigenous Peoples in Asia

Publisher: AIPP,IKAP & IWGIA
Number of pages: 4
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Asia
Release year: 2009
This briefing paper describes the term 'Indigenous Peoples'. Over the past decades, the concept of Indigenous Peoples has evolved beyond the original meaning still found in dictionaries, and it is now well established in international law. That is why we are writing it with capital initial letters. More and more people in Asia identify themselves as belonging to Indigenous Peoples. In some cases c...
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Imperatives for REDD+ Sustainability: Non-Carbon Benefits, local and indigenous peoples

Publisher: IBIS, CARE, IWGIA and Forests of the World
Author: This paper has been written by anthropologist Søren Hvalkof, Senior consultant at Nordeco, Copenhagen, as a contracted assignment for a coalition of Danish NGOs: Ibis, IWGIA, Forests of the World and Care-Denmark, exclusively for the COP 19 in Warsaw, November 2013.
Number of pages: 27
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Peru, Perú , Nicaragua, Tanzania, Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, Filipinas, Vietnam, China, Madagascar
Region publication is about: International, Internacional
Release year: 2013
This paper focuses on the importance of Non-Carbon Benefits in REDD+ delivered by indigenous peoples and forest dependent communities. Through three case studies it exemplifies how indigenous peoples and local communities contribute to REDD+ by delivering specific Non-Carbon Benefits. The cases show that the performance of indigenous peoples and local communities is an essential and indispensible ...
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Suicídio adolescente em povos indígenas

Publisher: UNICEF & IWGIA
Number of pages: 220
ISBN number: 978-85-64377-19-6
Publication language: Portugués
Country publication is about: Brazil, Brasil, Colombia, Peru, Perú
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 2014
Este trabalho foi resultado de um estudo interdisciplinar e intercultural realizado para o UNICEF que tinha o objetivo de fazer uma primeira analise dos casos de suicídio indígena na America Latina. Resolveu-se escolher três casos paradigmáticos de estudo por várias razões: 1-ser de caráter intercultural e para isso necessariamente teria que haver a participação dos jovens indígenas 2-te...
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Estudos Sobre os Awá: Caçadores-Coletores em Transição

Publisher: IWGIA y EDUFMA
Author: Almudena Hernando y Elizabeth Maria Beserra Coelho
Number of pages: 347
ISBN number: 978-85-7862-338-8
Publication language: Portugués
Country publication is about: Brazil, Brasil
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 2013
Os Awá-Guajá são um dos últimos grupos caçadores-coletores do planeta. Embora ainda existam alguns Awá não contatados, sua maior parte vive em quatro “Terras Indígenas” sob a proteção da FUNAI (Fundação Nacional do Índio) no estado do Maranhão (Brasil) Isto, no entanto, não impede que sejam acossados por invasões de madeireiros ilegais, que reduzem a mobilidade e a possibilidad...
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Report on the State of Pastoralists´Human Rights in Tanzania

Publisher: PAICODEO
Author: PAICODEO
Number of pages: 98
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Tanzania
Region publication is about: Africa, África
Release year: 2014
Pastoralists in Tanzania are suffering from many human rights violations, including forced evictions from their lands. This report gives a comprehensive analysis of the human rights situation of indigenous peoples in Tanzania, and documents cases of human rights violations against Maasai pastoralists during 2011. The information contained in this report is a result of a comprehensive survey and h...
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Up in Smoke? Maasai Rights in the Olkaria Geothermal Area, Kenya

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: By Kanyinke Sena
Number of pages: 4
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Kenya, Kenia
Region publication is about: Africa, África
Release year: 2013
Briefing note on how the Maasai have been affected by the Olkaria geothermal field that is placed on their ancestral land in Kenya. Without proper consultation or free prior and informed consent the Maasai have to vacate 4,300 acres of land in order to be resettled on only 567 acres. Although they will gain modern housing, a school and several scholarships, the compensation package does not includ...
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IWGIA Annual Report 2012

Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 32
Publication language: English
Release year: 2013
During the Rio+20 Conference in June, indigenous peoples successfully lobbied for recognition of the UN Declaration and an acknowledgment of culture and local livelihoods as important contributors to sustainable development. One outcome of Rio+20 was the decision to formulate a set of Sustainable Development Goals, which are expected to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015.
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Lost Lands? (Land) Rights of the San in Botswana and the Legal Concept of Indigeneity in Africa

Publisher: LIT & IWGIA
Author: Manuela Zips-Mairitsch
Number of pages: 432
ISBN number: 978-643-90244-3 (LIT) / 978-87-92786-35-7 (IWGIA)
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Botswana, Botsuana
Region publication is about: Africa, África
Release year: 2013
Release Month | Day: March
In this book, the author processes the detailed descriptions of a land rights dispute in Botswana in such a way that its instructive relevance for fundamental questions of intercultural justice becomes obvious. The case of the present book is the High Court of Botswana’s decision of the case Sesana v. the Attorney General in late 2006. The case of Sesana v. the Attorney General In this case, 21...
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Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact

Publisher: IPES - IWGIA
Author: Dinah Shelton, Antenor Vaz, Beatriz Huertas Castillo, Carlos Camacho Nassar, Luis Jesús Bello, Paola Colleoni, José Proaño, Dany Mahecha R. (ed.), Carlos Eduardo Franky C. (ed.) and the Unión de Nativos Ayoreo de Paraguay and Iniciativa Amotodie
Number of pages: 264
ISBN number: 978-87-92786-32-6
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Bolivia, Brazil, Brasil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Paraguay , Venezuela, Chaco
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 2013
This book offers a detailed insight into the situation of indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation in South America. It looks into the threats and challenges that indigenous peoples face and offers a rich source of demographic and ethnographic information regarding indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation and initial contact. Who are indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation? It is estimated th...
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Follow-up Report 2013 (May). Militarization in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. The Slow Demise of the Region's Indigenous Peoples

Publisher: IWGIA, Organising Committee CHT Campaign and Shimin Gaikou Centre
Number of pages: 4
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Bangladesh
Region publication is about: Asia
Release year: 2013
The present report aims to follow up the report titled "Militarization in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh: The Slow Demise of the Region’s Indigenous Peoples" (2012, IWGIA, Organising Committee CHT Campaign and Shimin Gaikou Centre). The 2012 report considered the reasons for continuing violence and human rights violations in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) after signing of the CHT Accor...
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Actes de la Première Réunion Mondiale du Forum des Peuples Autochtones au FIDA , 11-12 février 2013

Publisher: FIDA & IWGIA
Number of pages: 54
Publication language: French
Region publication is about: International; internacional
Financially supported by: Canadian International Development Agency, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Release year: 2013
Le présent document résume la première réunion mondiale du Forum des peuples autochtones au FIDA. Sa brièveté ne permet pas d’offrir un compte rendu in extenso des délibérations du Forum ni de rendre justice à la profusion d’observations et d’éclairages, d’expériences et de récits partagés par les participants. Le rapport propose plutôt une vue d’ensemble des principaux mes...
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Forced Evictions of Pastoralists in Kilombero and Ulanga Disticts in Mgorogoro Region in Tanzania

Publisher: IWGIA & PAICODEO
Number of pages: 4
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Tanzania
Region publication is about: Africa, África
Release year: 2013
Parakuiyo Pastoralists Indigenous Community Development Organization (PAICODEO), PINGOs Forum, Tanzania Land Alliance (TALA), the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) and journalists from ITV, Star TV, Channel 10 and Mwananchi newspaper have conducted a fact finding mission concerning the forced evictions of pastoralists in Kilombero and Ulanga districts in Morogoro region in Tanzania. The fact fi...
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