Celebrating Indigenous and Community Contributions to World Oceans Day
ICCA Consortium Members and Honorary members elevated the voices of Indigenous peoples and local communities in events on small-scale fisheries and ocean governance. Read more ▸
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ICCA Consortium Joins Global Solidarity Letter Against Aggressive Opportunism of Mining Industry During COVID-19
We have joined more than 330 other organisations condemning the continued operation of the mining industry amidst a global pandemic, environmental rollbacks and crackdown on civil society action. Read more ▸
Global Exchanges on Territories of Life and Community Health and Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Our membership and allies shared their experiences with community health and wellbeing during the pandemic, underscoring the importance of self-reliance and an intercultural and respectful approach to health. Read more ▸
GYBN and ICCA Consortium Webinar: “Nurturing Nature through Culture”
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On the occasion of the International Biodiversity Day, the Global Youth Biodiversity Network, GYBN-Philippines and the ICCA Consortium Youth Group hosted “Nurturing Nature through Culture”, a webinar on the interlinkages between traditional knowledge and biodiversity from a youth perspective. For those who missed it, here is the recording! Read more ▸
UN Dispatches: Short Film on Youth Perspectives on Global Biodiversity Negotiations
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The ICCA Consortium’s delegation to the most recent UN negotiations on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework included several youth (all women!). Join us as we hear about this experience directly from youth representatives from Madagascar, Nepal and the Philippines. Read more ▸
The Journey to Kunming (Part III): UN Post-2020 Negotiations Begin in Earnest Before COVID-19 Halts Global Process in Its Tracks
After a late-stage venue change from Kunming to Rome, jittery delegates managed to focus on negotiating the zero draft of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework in the same week that COVID-19 sadly began to take hold in Italy. Read more ▸
Announcing the ICCA Consortium’s 2020 Membership Review
The ICCA Consortium’s Membership Committee is pleased to announce the forthcoming membership review! This review will help us better understand the ICCA Consortium’s organisational Members and how we can strengthen our membership. Read more ▸
2020: Super Year for Women in Biodiversity?
“It is time to go beyond a focus on women’s vulnerabilities to the recognition of women as agents of change and active participants in caring for the environment, restoring and recovering biodiversity, and healing our relationship with nature.” On Earth Day, our Honorary member Cristina Eghenter offers her reflections on women in conservation. Read more ▸
The ICCA Consortium is Hiring a Communications Coordinator
Are you passionate about supporting Indigenous peoples and communities and collective action for environmental and social justice? Do you have training and proven experience… Read more “The ICCA Consortium is Hiring a Communications Coordinator” ▸
Impacts of COVID-19 on Human Rights Defenders and Resources for their Protection
Indigenous peoples and local communities who are defending their territories of life face heightened risks in the COVID-19 pandemic. Front Line Defenders reports on the impacts of COVID-19 on the safety and work of human rights defenders, and shares practical tips for the physical, emotional and digital protection of defenders working from home. Read more ▸
Global Calls for and on Territories of Life During the COVID-19 Crisis
The ICCA Consortium organised the first round of online discussions to bring together our membership in this difficult time, to strengthen solidarity, share experiences and responses from territories of life around the world, and jointly reflect on the ICCA Consortium’s role, both now and into the future. We shared inspiring stories as well as challenges, as we considered how the ICCA Consortium could play a role in confronting and affecting the dominant paradigms that led to the emergence of COVID-19. Read more ▸
The Indigenous World 2020 – by IWGIA
IWGIA recently published its report ‘The Indigenous World 2020’. An impressive 114 authors contributed to the report; Indigenous and non-indigenous activists and scholars from all over the world. The work surveys the main events to impact the lives of Indigenous communities in 2019. The book will stand as a go-to reference for all who wish to be informed and current on the rights of Indigenous peoples. Read more ▸
Convocatoria a Traductores Voluntarios para Apoyar al Consorcio TICCA
La comunicación entre continentes, idiomas y culturas es parte de nuestra vida diaria en el Consorcio TICCA. A medida que nos esforzamos por seguir mejorando nuestra capacidad de compartir e intercambiar historias, experiencias e información con nuestros Miembros y socios, estamos creando un grupo de voluntarios para apoyar con la traducción. Read more ▸
Cultivating seeds of change: Launching the ICCA Consortium’s “Youth for Territories of Life”
“Much like seeds pushing through the earth to grow into mighty cohiue trees, young people must continue to build ourselves, learn and grow into the strong agents of change that are so needed by our communities and territories and the planet as a whole.” An editorial by Josefa Cariño Tauli and Lucas Quintupuray, co-chairs of Youth for Territories of Life. Read more ▸
ICCA Consortium Participates in the Elaboration of Geneva Road Map to Protect Defenders’ Fundamental Human Rights
Council member José Aylwin participated on behalf of the Consortium and its working group on defending territories of life, where he presented the perspective and work of the Consortium as well as the difficult context of environmental and land rights defenders in Latin America in particular. Read more ▸
UN Biodiversity Negotiators Must Protect Human Rights to Protect the Planet
ICCA Consortium Members, Honorary members and partners joined forces for an ambitious international workshop that could help change the course of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework – by putting human rights firmly at its centre. Read more ▸
Interview: Vivienne Solis Rivera presents the “Blue Call to Action” initiative
In view of the upcoming 2020 United Nations Ocean Conference, several organizations, including the ICCA Consortium, launched “RISE UP, A Blue Call to Action”. In an interview with the Spanish radio RTVE, former ICCA Consortium council member Vivienne Solis Rivera details the initiative and its objectives. Read more ▸
Global Report Identifies Land, Environmental and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights as Most Dangerous Sector for Human Rights Defenders
With growing global concern over our climate and ecological crises, those who defend Mother Earth should be gaining better protection – but instead, they are being targeted. According to Front Line Defenders’ annual global analysis, the fight for land, environmental and indigenous peoples’ rights was the most dangerous sector for defenders, comprising 40% of the human rights defenders killed in 2019. Read more ▸
The 2020s: An Era of Radical Change for Territories of Life, and a Future History Still to be Written
As we usher in a new decade – reportedly our ‘last chance’ to avert total ecological catastrophe – Global Coordinator Holly Jonas reflects on key changes and sets out the ICCA Consortium’s priorities for the coming year. Read more ▸
Without Youth and Children, Nothing is Possible!
Sharing her experiences in three youth-led international events in 2019, Emma Courtine, Honorary Member and Secretariat of the ICCA Consortium, reflects on opportunities and ideas for the Consortium to engage youth and enhance youth participation— including the creation of a youth platform within the Consortium! Read more ▸
