indigenous peoples
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Peru urged to ban oil firms from isolated indigenous peoples' land
Publicado el 9 Oct 2017 - 00:06The biggest dangers - in terms of outsiders entering their territories, exploiting resources and/or actively seeking contact - are oil and gas companies, loggers and logging.. -
Tenure Facility officially launched as international foundation
Publicado el 4 Oct 2017 - 20:08After 7 years of design and operational tests, the Tenure Facility has became an independent non-profit foundation and has already been registered in Stockholm on October 3rd. -
Thailand: Karen villagers win lawsuit against mining company
Publicado el 21 Sep 2017 - 11:57After 19 years of dispute, Karen villagers from lower Klity village in Kanchana Buri, Thailand, won a lawsuit against a lead mining company. -
Danish Minister: We made a promise ten years ago
Publicado el 19 Sep 2017 - 06:24Ulla Tørnæs: "I believe that Denmark has a good story to tell when we look at our cooperation with Greenland. Our government, as well as our Parliament, have been focusing on" -
A dramatic call to defend the TIPNIS
Publicado el 16 Ago 2017 - 05:10National Encounter denounces tnat the Goverment “has lost respect for indigenous territories exposing them to the interests of transnational capital and other social sectors". -
‘Indigenous peoples are the best guardians of world's biodiversity’
Publicado el 16 Ago 2017 - 02:18The UN Declaration "is a framework for justice and reconciliation between Indigenous Peoples and states, and applies international human rights standards to the specific... -
Indigenous Peoples' Day: More visibility pairs with harder criminalisation
Publicado el 10 Ago 2017 - 02:24Only in 2015, a third of the murders related to territorial defense were indigenous leaders from Latin America. This escalation of violence is not accidental, given the fact.. -
$1bn to clean up the oil in Peru’s northern Amazon
Publicado el 8 Ago 2017 - 00:06The impacts on the Achuar, Kichwa, Kukama, Quechua and Urarina indigenous peoples living in this region have been appalling: contaminated rivers, streams, lakes, lagoons, soil -
Indigenous communicators and spokespeople ask for monitoring climate funds
Publicado el 12 Jun 2017 - 12:56About 50 indigenous communicators and spokespeople from the peruvian region of Ucayali, concluded a three-day training program, which main focus was the Amazonian forests... -
Canadian oil firm pulls out of national park in Peru's Amazon
Publicado el 26 Abr 2017 - 01:00Pacific signed a contract for the concession in 2007, the year after a significant chunk of it had been declared a supposedly “protected natural area” but eight years before..