ICCA Consortium’s Statement to the First Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Article 8(j) and Other Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Read more ▸
As the 2025 UNOC convenes in Nice, France, from June 8 to 13 under the theme “Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean,” we put forward this statement and reiterate that Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities have an outsized role in governance, conservation, and sustainable use of our oceans. Read more ▸
The armed group is massacring and displacing Indigenous and local populations in the eastern Congo to occupy their lands and territories for the illegal extraction of strategic minerals. Read more ▸
We call on the international community to listen to our voices, recognize our authority over the territories we have cared for over generations, and support us with the necessary resources to continue being guardians of biodiversity. Read more ▸
World Food Day 2022: ICCA Consortium’s statement of solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Read more ▸
The ICCA Consortium’s solidarity statement for International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2022. Read more ▸
The ICCA Consortium urges governments and the UN to recognize Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ territories of life as a critical imperative and opportunity to usher in transformative change for the oceans. Read more ▸
On May 22, we mark the International Day for Biological Diversity at a time when Indigenous Peoples and local communities are still fighting for their rightful place in decisions that affect them and their territories of life. Read more ▸
The ICCA Consortium stands in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and local communities who are sustaining their collective lands, waters, and territories of life in the face of immense challenges and calls on decision-makers and funders to support the self-determination of these custodians and the diversification and localization of the conservation industry. Read more ▸
Solidarity Statement on International Human Rights Defenders Day and International Human Rights Day 2021. Read more ▸
ICCA Consortium Solidarity Statement on World Fisheries Day 2021. Read more ▸
The ICCA Consortium’s Statement on World Food Day 2021. Read more ▸
We call for a new social contract for Indigenous Peoples’ rights to self-determination and to sustain and defend their territories of life. Read more ▸
The following statement was issued by the participants of the virtual workshop on rangelands and pastoralism in Asia held on July 16, 2021. Read more ▸
Ajq’ij Domingo Choc Che was a husband and father, a community member who worked to help others, and an expert in the knowledge of herbs and medicinal plants and their ancestral uses. In the strongest terms possible, the ICCA Consortium joins Mayan and Guatemalan organisations in condemning Tat Domingo’s assassination and demanding swift action for justice, healing and peace. Read more ▸
Indigenous peoples’ rights and peasants’ rights activists Pranab Doley and Soneshwar Narah were arrested on 7 April 2020 in Assam, India. The arrests appear to be politically motivated with the intention of intimidating and silencing these community leaders, who have dedicated their lives to social justice and supporting Indigenous peoples, forest dwellers and peasant communities. Read more ▸
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