Cultural Identity & Knowledge (1)
International processes (2)
Gender issues (2)
Inter-American human rights system (1)
Rights to land & natural resources (1)
Rights-based conservation (2)
Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL) (1)
National Indigenous Women's Federation (NIWF) (Nepal) (2)
SETARA Jambi (1)
TEBTEBBA (Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education) (1)
Open letter to WWF on serious human rights abuses associated with conservation activities
FPP and signatory organisations from around the world have sent an Open Letter to WWF International, calling for thorough, fair and transparent investigations into serious allegations of abuses in WWF projects in Cameroon, Nepal, India and elsewhere.
FPP E-Newsletter December 2013 (PDF Version)
What are the prospects for securing the land rights of indigenous peoples, local communities, and women in the foreseeable future?
Significantly, the report of the United Nations Secretary-General's High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, under Goal 1 to "End Poverty", sets a target to "Increase by x% the share of women and men, communities, and businesses with secure rights to land, property, and other assets".
The importance of ensuring respect for the rights of forest peoples' to control their forests, lands and livelihoods, becomes ever clearer and yet more contested. As the articles in this edition of our newsletter starkly reveal, land and resource grabs are not just being imposed by commercial developers but are being actively promoted by governments, whose principle responsibility should be to protect the rights of citizens. Yet these same impositions are also being resisted, sometimes at great personal cost, by local communities and indigenous peoples.