In Costa Rica, a draft law was presented so that the implementation of the “Voluntary guidelines for the sustainability of small scale fisheries in the context of food security and the eradication of poverty” will not remain voluntary but a responsibility towards the recognition of human rights of coastal and fishing communities. Read more ▸
ICCA Alert – the UNDP GEF incepted the Ridge to Reef Project, a $21 million conservation project that poses to transform 1.4 million hectares of community lands in Tanintharyi Region into Protected Areas, without the proper FPIC of the communities. Read more ▸
The IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas has just released a special issue of its peer-reviewed journal PARKS: The International Journal of Protected Areas and Conservation, focusing on Other-Effective Conservation Measures (OECMs). Read more ▸
A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation, by Stephen T. Garnett, Neil D. Burgess, John E. Fa , Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares ,… Read more “A spatial Overview of The Global Importance of Indigenous Lands for Conservation” ▸
Podcast episode featuring a special report on the community-based conservation and agroforestry operations known as ejidos in Mexico featuring ICCA Consortium Honorary member David Barkin. Read more ▸
ICCAs were the highlight of the Tenure and Access Rights capacity building session of the CSO Forum for the ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry (AWG-SF) held in Da Nang, Vietnam last June 24-25. The CSO Forum is an annual gathering organized by NTFP-EP to get inputs and recommendations from NGOs and indigenous and local communities from eight countries on the themes of tenure, safeguards, livelihoods and governance. Read more ▸
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Association pour le Développment Economique, Social et Culturel du village de Bona |
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Association pour le Développement du pays Bassari |
This paper focuses upon loopholes in new laws that could exclude forested lands from collective entitlement, impairing constitutional advances in the process. Ambiguity within the Kenyan Constitution itself plays a role. Therefore, while lesser impediments to land justice may be remedied through clarifying regulations and parliamentary removal of offending clauses, judicial interpretation of constitutional intentions is required. Read more ▸
Entre el 9 de mayo y el 9 de junio, siete destacados líderes comunitarios del CODECA y el CCDA fueron asesinados en Guatemala. Diversas organizaciones internacionales y de DD.HH. han manifestado su preocupación por la ola de asesinatos y han solicitado a las autoridades medidas inmediatas para esclarecer los hechos y proteger a los defensores. Read more ▸
A seminar on Arctic Indigenous and Local Knowledge & Sustainability, organized by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) took place in Helsinki University, Finland: an effort to work across knowledge systems and incorporate Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK) in biodiversity assessment. Read more ▸
Members and partners of the ICCA Consortium congregated in Halifax, Canada for the Communities, Conservation and Livelihoods Conference. The conference, co-organized by the Community Conservation Research Network and the IUCN Commission on Environment, Economics, and Social Policy (CEESP), gathered over 400 participants from NGOs, the academe, and communities. Read more ▸
A peer-to-peer dialogue took place on the outskirts of Nairobi. Practitioners of environmental and human rights law from the judiciary, academia, civil society and various levels of government discussed and made recommendations for goals to be set for the post 2020 global biodiversity framework and contribute to the implementation of human rights to a healthy and sustainable environment Read more ▸
The community of Caylin Island asked the Chilean State to create a Coastal and Marine Area of Native People around the entire island and the adjacent Chaiguao Peninsula. The proposal was approved in May 2018. Read more ▸
Marine and coastal areas that have been used harmoniously by indigenous people in Chile for centuries are under threat. Chilean government’s policies are aligned to support the interests of big corporations and to create obstacles for Indigenous communities’ rights. Read more ▸
Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever is a report based on field research, never publicly-seen-before documents, and an in-depth investigation into Tanzania’s land laws. Read more ▸
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