Release Indigenous Leader Pranab Doley Immediately: ICCA Consortium
Tribal and community rights defender and ICCA honorary member, Pranab Doley, has been arrested in Assam, India, amid resistance to a Kaziranga luxury hotel project. Read more ▸
Statement
Statement for CBD SB8j‑1: Territories of life at the heart of the Convention on Biological Diversity
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 ▸
ICCA Consortium Statement for the 2025 UN Ocean Conference
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 ▸
Urgent Call: Stop M23/AFC atrocities in DRC and demand withdrawal of the armed group from Congolese territory
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 ▸
ICCA Consortium Statement at COP16: Protecting biodiversity and territories of life
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 ▸
The future of food: the diversity of food sovereignty systems at the local level is the backbone of global food security
World Food Day 2022: ICCA Consortium’s statement of solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Read more ▸
Indigenous women are leading transformative change, from within their communities to global halls of power
The ICCA Consortium’s solidarity statement for International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2022. Read more ▸
Statement of solidarity with the people of the sea on the occasion of the 2022 UN Ocean Conference
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 ▸
Solidarity statement for the International Day for Biological Diversity 2022
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 ▸
Solidarity Statement on International Mother Earth Day 2022
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 ▸
The time is now to protect the rights of those defending territories of life
Solidarity Statement on International Human Rights Defenders Day and International Human Rights Day 2021. Read more ▸
Support Indigenous and community fisheries, safeguard against exclusionary protected areas and so-called “blue economy”
ICCA Consortium Solidarity Statement on World Fisheries Day 2021. Read more ▸
The time is now to back the peoples and communities who are feeding the world
The ICCA Consortium’s Statement on World Food Day 2021. Read more ▸
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples: Statement by the ICCA Consortium
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 ▸
Statement from the virtual workshop on rangelands and pastoralism in Asia
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 ▸
Statement: We Repudiate and Condemn the Murder of Elder Aj ilonel Domingo Choc Ché
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 ▸
The ICCA Consortium Urges Authorities to Immediately Release and Drop Charges Against Indigenous and Peasant Leaders in Assam, India
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 ▸
