The military began a series of deadly airstrikes on Indigenous Karen villages in the heart of the award-winning Salween Peace Park in Karen State. The ICCA Consortium stands in solidarity and support with our Indigenous sisters and brothers of Burma/Myanmar and vehemently condemns all human rights violations and violence against innocent civilians. Read more ▸
Last month, indigenous Karen communities, the Salween Peace Park Committee, and the Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN – an ICCA Consortium Member) officially launched the Salween Peace Park in the Mutraw District of Myanmar’s Kayin State. Read more ▸
On today, 3 March 2017, to celebrate World Wildlife Day, the Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN) is pleased to release a short… Read more “The Salween Peace Park : A Place for All Living Things to share Peacefully” ▸
The Salween Peace Park initiative is a collective effort involving over 300 representatives from 23 village tracts in the 3 townships of Mutraw District;… Read more “From Battlefields to Refuge: Introducing The Salween Peace Park” ▸
The park’s planning and establishment resulted from years of hard work, discussion, and coordination between communities, Karen civil society, and the Karen National Union. Read more ▸
Karen environmental leader Paul Sein Twa took part in the recently concluded Twentieth Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. He spoke as a panelist in a side event titled “Indigenous peoples’ inland small-scale fisheries for healthy food systems.” This article is an adaptation of his speech. Read more ▸
Military airstrikes on the Salween Peace Park starting on 27 March 2021 have affected tens of thousands of Indigenous villagers in northern Karen State in Burma/Myanmar. The ICCA Consortium has issued an open letter and call to action condemning the military’s human rights violations and violence against Indigenous peoples, ethnic groups, and other innocent civilians. Read more ▸
Our Council member Paul Sein Twa (Karen) was honored as the recipient for Asia for his leadership in helping establish the 1.35 million-acre Salween Peace Park in Burma/Myanmar. Read more ▸
The ICCA Consortium welcomes 27 new member organizations and five new honorary members. Read more ▸
Comments of the recently published volume “Territories of life: Exploring vitality of governance for conserved and protected areas”. Read more ▸
Documenting ICCAs passes on traditional knowledge and history, and enables the world to see that ICCA custodians have concrete, nature-based solutions to help reach global conservation targets. Read more ▸
Karen communities see physical health of humans and the health of the environment as being entwined and interconnected. Destruction of the forest or water systems can cause illness to the community, as spirits are disturbed. For this reason, Indigenous communities take much care in the protection of their territory. Read more ▸
The report published by the “All Burma Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance (ABIPA)” illustrate the state of environmental human rights in Myanmar and the strategies pursued by the defenders in the face of violent crackdowns by the military rulers. Read more ▸
Indigenous Peoples in Southeast Asia navigate their place within the legal frameworks of the nation-states. The extent of their self-determination depends on the strength and resilience of their assertions, and the space nation-states provide for such self-determination to be exercised. Read more ▸
For the first time in the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, the new global biodiversity framework adopted in December 2022 recognises and commits to protecting environmental human rights defenders. During COP15, a side event co-organised by the International Land Coalition, Natural Justice, and the ICCA Consortium delved into what this means in practice and what women face on a daily basis as they defend their territories of life in diverse contexts. Read more ▸
“Community mapping is the most effective method that can facilitate the identification of the ICCA and the conduct of local resource assessment and inventories.” Read more ▸
Forests in Indigenous territories in Myanmar face an uncertain future. The military has targeted environmental defenders for their work protecting their lands from theft and destruction by military-run companies and their cronies. Read more ▸
This joint event, co-organised by the ICCA Consortium, Maliasili, Luc Hoffmann Institute, and IUCN CEESP, reflected on the core values that should guide relationships and partnerships and the power imbalances that often pervade them. Overall, the event highlighted the importance of reconceptualising partnerships from the perspective of Indigenous Peoples and local communities themselves and in the form of networks of solidarity and support. Read more ▸
The success of Indigenous solutions to pressing conservation challenges in Burma/Myanmar is well-known despite the insurmountable violence and hardships that Indigenous Peoples face in the country. Read more ▸
On December 10, 2022, at the UN Biodiversity Summit, CBD COP15, a delegation of Indigenous leaders from Burma will speak about the successes of Indigenous solutions to pressing conservation challenges despite the insurmountable violence and hardships that indigenous peoples in Burma face. Read more ▸
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