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Self-determination, territorial autonomy and access to justice: Insights into the situation of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil from the Indigenous Navigator

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Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Ricardo Verdum
Number of pages: 24
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Brazil, Brasil
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 2023
Release Month | Day: July
The purpose of this report is to produce data and insights about the way in which Brazil is applying the international rules included in the International Labour Organization Indigenous and Tribal PeoplesConvention, 1989 (No. 169); United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007, as well as other relevant human rights documents. Its main source is the qualitative and quantitat...
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Free, Prior and Informed Consent of the Tamang Indigenous Peoples of Nepal

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Publisher: LAHURNIP, AIPP & IWGIA
Author: Navin K. Rai
Number of pages: 156
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Nepal
Region publication is about: Asia
Release year: 2023
Release Month | Day: June
The Nepal-Upper Trishuli–1 (216 MW) Hydroelectric Project, sponsored by the Nepal Water and Energy Development Company, is adversely affecting the Tamang Indigenous Peoples of Rasuwa, which the Government of Nepal recognizes as “Indigenous Peoples,” as do the core project lenders – namely the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Asian Infrastr...
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Indigenous Peoples’ Customary Fishing Rights: Key Issues And Input From The Expert Meeting On Indigenous Peoples And Fisheries

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Publisher: Danish Institute for Human Right & IWGIA
Number of pages: 56
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Artic, Ártico, Latin America, América Latina, Asia, Asia, Africa, África, Oceania, Oceanía
Release year: 2023
Release Month | Day: june
Indigenous Peoples have a deep connection with aquatic ecosystems and resources. For fishing-dependent indigenous communities, fishing is not just an occupation and fish is not just a commodity. Fisheries are the basis for – and an integral element of - their cultures, spiritual beliefs, traditional knowledge and food systems. However, the distinct rights of Indigenous Peoples in the context of ...
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Indigenous Territorial Autonomy and Self-government in the Diverse Americas

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Publisher: University of Calgary
Author: Miguel González, Ritsuko Funaki, Araceli Burguete Cal y Mayor, José Marimán, and Pablo Ortiz-T
Number of pages: 725
ISBN number: 9781773854649
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Financially supported by: IWGIA, JSPS-Kakenhi
Release year: 2023
Release Month | Day: June
The global activism of Indigenous Peoples and afrodescentents has been pushing for and bringing to public attention the right for self-determination, autonomy, and self-government. This has led to important progress in international law; however, these achievements and their implementation are threatened by policies from national governments and economic interests that run against these essential ...
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Joint Programme of Work on links between biological and cultural diversity: review and update of the four indicators on traditional knowledge

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Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 8
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: International, Internacional, Africa, África, Asia, Asia, Latin America, América Latina, Oceania, Oceanía
Release year: 2023
Release Month | Day: May
The Indigenous Navigator consortium welcomes the review of information on the status of the data and information, operationalization, review, and update of the four traditional knowledge indicators, following the last information note produced by the Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions. The Indigenous Navigator is a primary example of community-based monitoring and information sys...
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Le Monde Autochtone 2023

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Publisher: French network in solidarity
Number of pages: 715
ISBN number: 978-87-93961-66-1
Publication language: French
Country publication is about: Global
Release year: 2023
Release Month | Day: April
The compilation you have in your hands is the unique result of a collaborative effort between Indigenous and non-indigenous activists and scholars who voluntarily document and report on the situation of Indigenous Peoples’ rights. We thank them and celebrate the bonds and sense of community that result from the close cooperation needed to make this one-of-a kind documentation tool available. Fo...
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The Indigenous World 2023

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Publisher: IWGIA
Author: General Editor: Dwayne Mamo
Number of pages: 720
ISBN number: 978-87-93961-61-6
ISSN number: 1024-0217
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Global
Financially supported by: Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DANIDA)
Release year: 2023
Release Month | Day: April
The Indigenous World is the unique result of a collaborative effort between Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists and scholars who voluntarily document and report on the situation of Indigenous Peoples’ rights. For 37 consecutive years IWGIA has published The Indigenous World in collaboration with this communi...
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Input for the Thematic Report on Tourism of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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Publisher: IWGIA & AIPP
Number of pages: 9
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Asia
Release year: 2023
Release Month | Day: March
Tourism projects are often designed and implemented without respect for the rights of Indigenous Peoples, including the right to self-determination; lands, territories and resources; free prior and informed consent; as well as economic, social and cultural rights. Furthermore, the travel industry is often deeply voyeuristic in the way it views Indigenous cultures.
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Establishing monitoring mechanisms at the national and regional level for implementation of the UN Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples

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Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 6
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: International, Internacional
Release year: 2023
Release Month | Day: March
This written statement is submitted to the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in response to the call for submission on: “Establishing monitoring mechanisms at the national and regional level for implementation of the UN Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples.”
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Study on Consultation and Free, Prior and Informed Consent with Indigenous Peoples in Africa

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Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Leonardo J. Alvarado
Number of pages: 70
ISBN number: 978-87-93961-54-8
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Africa
Financially supported by: Ford Foundation
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: December
The right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) is a fundamental right for Indigenous Peoples worldwide. However, there are serious global challenges in its implementation, including across the African continent.
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Recognition of Indigenous Peoples in Nationally Determined Contributions

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Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Rosario Carmona, Graeme Reed, James Ford, Stefan Thorsell, Rocío Yon, Francisca Carril, Johnson Cerda, and Kerrie Pickering
Number of pages: 28
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Global
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: October
Indigenous Peoples positioned themselves in multilateral climate negotiations through their advocacy. Although the international community gradually recognises Indigenous Peoples’ contributions to climate governance, a rights-based approach in national climate action is still largely absent.
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IWGIA Statement to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Human Rights Situation in Africa

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Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 3
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Africa
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: October
IWGIA prepared the following statement and submitted it to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights at its 73rd session in October 2022. Indigenous Peoples in Africa are increasingly losing their ancestral lands through land grabbing and forced evictions, which threaten their future existence. The land grabbing and evictions are done in violent ways and in blatant discard for interna...
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IWGIA & AIPP Statement to the Commission on the Status of Women 67th Session

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Publisher: IWGIA & AIPP
Number of pages: 4
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Global
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: October
This written statement is respectfully submitted to the Commission on the Status of Women in response to the priority theme; Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.
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IWGIA Annual Report 2021

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Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 34
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Global
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: June
Indigenous Peoples continued to be severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. In many countries where IWGIA works, partners struggled with the health situation and government restrictions that impacted their freedom of movement and further exacerbated the encroachment on Indigenous Peoples’ rights and shrinking civic space (see also last year’s annual report). In 2021, we provided inf...
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A new paradigm of climate partnership with Indigenous Peoples: An analysis of the recognition of Indigenous Peoples in the IPCC report on mitigation

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Publisher: IWGIA, the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) and Pastoralists Indigenous NGO Forum (PINGO's Forum)
Number of pages: 10
Publication language: English
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: June
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). In response to this, IWGIA, the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) and Pastoralists Indigenous NGO Forum (PINGO's Forum) present a j...
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The Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa: Celebrating 20 years of Indigenous leadership, standard setting and sensitisation

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Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Valérie Couillard & Jérémie Gilbert
Number of pages: 46
ISBN number: 978-87-93961-55-5
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Africa
Financially supported by: The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: June
Over the past 20 years, 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 the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) was initiated in 2000 and developed over the years, with IWGIA providing essential financial and technical resources to support the work o...
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Implementing UN Recommendations on Indigenous Women: Understanding barriers and enablers

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Implementing UN Recommendations on Indigenous Women: Understanding barriers and enablers
Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 12
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Global
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: June
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.
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Urgent Alert: New serious threats towards the Maasai people of Loliondo in Tanzania

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Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 5
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Tanzania
Region publication is about: Africa
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: June
According to reliable information received by IWGIA, the Tanzanian state is currently moving ahead to grab 1,500 km2 of ancestral and legally registered village land belonging to the Maasai Indigenous people in the Loliondo division of Ngorongoro District in northern Tanzania. This land grab will forcefully evict the Maasai from their land. This is happening despite the fact that the East Afr...
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The Indigenous World 2022

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Publisher: IWGIA
Author: General Editor: Dwayne Mamo
Number of pages: 848
ISBN number: 978-87-93961-49-4
ISSN number: 1024-0217
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Global
Financially supported by: Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DANIDA)
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: April
The Indigenous World is the unique result of a collaborative effort between Indigenous and non-indigenous activists and scholars who voluntarily document and report on the situation of Indigenous Peoples’ rights. For 36 consecutive years IWGIA has published The Indigenous World in collaboration with this community of authors. This yearly overview serves to document and report on the develo...
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The Green Climate Fund in Peru: Indigenous organisations´ recommendations for improving safeguards

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Publisher: Cocama Association for the Development and Conservation of San Pablo de Tipishca (ACODECOSPAT), Federation of Native Communities of the Corrientes River Basin (FECONACOR), Quechua Indigenous Federation of Pastaza (FEDIQUEP), Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampis Nation (GTANW), Organisation of the Indigenous Kichwa Amazonian Peoples of the Peru-Ecuador Border (OPIKAFPE), National Organisation of Indigenous Andean and Amazonian Women of Peru (ONAMIAP), Indigenous Peoples United in Defence of their Territory (PUINAMUDT), International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), and Peru Equidad Centre for Public Policy and Human Rights
Author: Tami Okamoto and Mario Zúñiga
Number of pages: 90
ISBN number: 978-87-93961-51-7
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Peru
Region publication is about: Latin America
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: April
This report provides an update on the Green Climate Fund’s investments in Peru and makes a series of recommendations aimed at overcoming its limitations about Indigenous Peoples safeguards. It highlights the need for structural change to ensure more effective and equitable participation of Indigenous Peoples in decision-making regarding climate action and access to climate funds, particularly th...
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Written submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women: IWGIA inputs to the Report on violence against women and girls in the context of the climate crisis

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Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 4
Publication language: English
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: March
The consequences of climate change are often felt most acutely by Indigenous Peoples and have gendered impacts. Forced migration as a result of climate change and water scarcity are susceptible of making Indigenous women and girls more vulnerable to human rights abuses.
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Recognising the contributions of Indigenous Peoples in global climate action? An analysis of the IPCC report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

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Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 8
Publication language: English
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: March
On 28 February 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a ground-breaking report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability of climate change. The report is conclusive about the increasing and accelerating impacts of climate change on Indigenous Peoples' territories and livelihoods.
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Collective Punishment: Implementation of "Four Cuts"

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Publisher: IWGIA / CHRO
Number of pages: 30
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Myanmar
Region publication is about: Asia
Financially supported by: IWGIA
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: 03/01
This report details human rights abuses that took place in Mindat Township, Chin State from the period of April to December 2021. In May 2021, Martial Law was imposed on Mindat Town, pre-empting a large-scale assault by air and on the ground in order to engage with the Chin Defense Force – Mindat (CDF-M) and establish military control of the town.
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Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and UNESCO World Heritage Sites

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Publisher: IWGIA, International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on World Heritage (IIPFWH) Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC)
Number of pages: 24
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Global
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: March
As an instrument for the conservation and protection of natural and cultural heritage sites, which affords sites recognized as “World Heritage sites” an additional level of protection beyond domestic laws and regulations, the World Heritage Convention (“the Convention”) can play, and in some cases undoubtedly has played, a positive role for Indigenous Peoples by helping to protect their la...
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Urgent Alert: Threats of forced eviction of the Maasai indigenous pastoralists of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) and Ngorongoro District in Tanzania

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Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 5
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Tanzania
Region publication is about: Africa
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: February
The Maasai indigenous pastoralists of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) and Ngorongoro District in Northern Tanzania are currently under severe threat of forced eviction. According to reliable information received by IWGIA, the situation is very serious and there is panic among the people after they have become aware of the eminent threats of being forcefully evicted from their ancestral land...
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Written submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its causes & consequences: IWGIA inputs to the Report on violence against Indigenous Women and Girls

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Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 5
Publication language: English
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: January
Indigenous Peoples all over the world face systemic discrimination rooted in persistent racism as well as past and present colonialism. Many Indigenous communities have been forcefully relocated, lands have been taken away, forests have been destroyed, mountains have been mined and valleys have been dammed and flooded.
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Urgent Alert: 70,000 Maasai in Loliondo, Tanzania, face another forceful eviction

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Publisher: IWGIA & IPRI
Number of pages: 5
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Tanzania
Region publication is about: Africa
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: January
According to reliable information received by Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) and the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania is currently planning the eviction of the Maasai Indigenous people from a 1,500 km2  area in their ancestral land located in the Loliondo Division of Ngorongoro District, Arusha Region, e...
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IACHR presents the report: "Right to Self-Determination of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples"

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Publisher: IWGIA & IACHR
Number of pages: 9
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Americas
Financially supported by: IWGIA
Release year: 2021
Release Month | Day: Dec 31
This English version is an executive summary. Read the full report in Spanish  Washington, D.C. - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) presents its thematic report "Right to Self-Determination of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples" in which it recognizes the current demands of indigenous and tribal peoples, analyzes international standards, and makes recommendation...
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IWGIA & AIPP Joint Submission to the Commission on the Status of Women 66th Session

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Publisher: IWGIA & AIPP
Number of pages: 3
Publication language: English
Release year: 2021
Release Month | Day: December
There are numerous challenges for Indigenous Women in relation to climate change. Indigenous Women are more severely affected by the challenges to produce or collect sufficient food, or challenges of water scarcity because of climate change (flooding, drought, unpredictable weather, decrease in food varieties etc.). In accordance with culturally defined gender roles, Indigenous Women are ofte...
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Cybersecurity in the Mekong Region: An Analysis of the Legal Framework and Recommendations for the Protection of Indigenous Environmental Human Rights Defenders

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Publisher: AIPP & IWGIA
Author: Editor: Prabindra Shakya
Number of pages: 144
Publication language: English
Region publication is about: Asia
Financially supported by: IWGIA & Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)
Release year: 2021
Release Month | Day: August
The report is part of “Defending the Defenders: Indigenous Environment Human Rights Defenders (IEHRDs)” project of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) managed by the Environment Programme of AIPP. It aims to review the existing legal frameworks regulating cyber security and its applications in the...
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