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 Gobierno Territorial Autonomo de la Nación Wampis (GTANW) has taken legal action against the oil company GeoPark Peru SAC for threatening the Wampis Nation and their territory of life in the northern Peruvian Amazon. The ICCA Consortium fully supports the GTANW’s demands to the Peruvian government and GeoPark to halt all activities related to oil exploitation and leave Wampis territory immediately and permanently. Read more ▸
The ICCA Consortium issued a letter to the Chief Minister of Assam and other officials in India to condemn the arbitrary arrest of two farmers’ rights activists, including a nominated Honorary member who attended our recent GA. We are relieved they were subsequently released on bail, but concerns remain. 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 ▸
In Montenegro, local communities and civil society are organizing to defend the pasture area of Sinjajevina, used by pastoral tribes for millennia, and now threatened by government plans to occupy it for military artillery testing. Official studies have recommended giving the area a protected status but those are being hastily set aside… 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 ▸
In the Kerala state of India, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) is bent upon constructing a biomedical waste treatment plant at the Myristica swamps… Read more “India – Myristica swamp, an Adivasi community calls to save a rare ecosystem” ▸
After a long battle for land rights, grazing rights, the government of Tanzania has cancelled the hunting license of OBC in Loliondo! Read more ▸
Desde mediados de 2016 escaló el conflicto minero en la comunidad indígena Shuar Arutam de Nankints, en la Cordillera del Condor, Sur de Ecuador.… Read more “Ecuador – Pueblo Shuar Arutam en la Cordillera del Condor” ▸
The states of Finland and Norway are trying to make the livelihood of indigenous Saami salmon fishers illegal in Deatnu (Teno/Tana), the biggest Atlantic… Read more “Saami traditional fishing rights threatened in Finland and Norway” ▸
In recent days we have heard about the cowardly murder of Berta Caceres, an indigenous leader of Honduras who led several campaigns of opposition… Read more “Honduras – Against the construction of the Agua Zarca Dam Keeping on Berta Caceres struggle!” ▸
Follow their action in the dedicated website: Save Ekuri Forest! The ICCA Consortium has written (February 29, 2016) to top national authorities in Nigeria… Read more “Support the struggle of the Consortium’s member Ekuri Initiative to prevent the destruction of their community forest to develop a dubiously useful “super-highway”!” ▸
Stop blaming indigenous people’s farming practices (kaingin) for deforestation – look instead at boom crops, oil palm plantations and mining. Please read here the… Read more “The Philippines – Don’t blame indigenous peoples’ farming practice for deforestation but mining and mono-crops plantations” ▸
Update: March 24, 2015 Positive resolution on this alert: on March 24, 2015, Metsähallitus and Snowchange Cooperative reached a solution regarding the Ostola lot.… Read more “Finland – Havukkavaara Forest Under Threat” ▸
El Consorcio TICCA envíó una carte abierta a las autoridades Chilenas en solidaridad con las comunidades de Quinquén y de Icalma frente al incendio… Read more “Chile – Incendio devastador amenazando el territorio de las comunidades de Quinquén y de Icalma” ▸
The ICCA Consortium has written a letter to the President of the Honduras National Congress and the President of the Republic in order to… Read more “Honduras – Law on fisheries and aquaculture threatening traditional fishing practices.” ▸
This alert is the development of our previous alert in Palawan. The proposal to convert 8 million hectares of Philippine soil into oil palm… Read more “The Philippines – Halt oil palm rush in Palawan “Man & Biosphere reserve”” ▸
This Consortium alert involves Uvinje, a small, coastal sub-village of Saadani Village, north of Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania. The residents of Uvinje face… Read more “Tanzania – NO to the eviction of Uvinje villagers, respect communities sensitive to conservation!” ▸
Stop oil palm expansion on Palawan’s UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve. According to the Provincial government, oil palm monocultures will eradicate poverty and reduce… Read more “The Philippines – Stop indiscriminate oil palm expansion on indigenous peoples’ land in Palawan” ▸
Learn more about how the Ayoreo people living in voluntary isolation are trying to protect their Ayoreo ICCA. Today the Ayoreo are being increasinlgy… Read more “Paraguay – Stop deforestation affecting the Ayoreo People living in voluntary isolation” ▸
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