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RFJF
13 April 2021
South America
Bolivia
Brazil
Colombia
Peru

Um ano após a chegada da pandemia na Amazônia, a situação se tornou ainda mais dramática para as populações indígenas e comunidades tradicionais. A região também se tornou foco de variantes e mutações da covid-19, expondo riscos ainda maiores para as populações e o meio ambiente. A maior floresta tropical do mundo está, hoje, mais perto do ponto de não retorno.

Foto: Arquivo pessoal
7 April 2021
Latin America and the Caribbean
South America
Brazil
Maria de Fátima Batista Barros era uma das principais lideranças quilombolas do Tocantins — Foto: Arquivo pessoal
 
Maria de Fátima Batista Barros tinha 48 anos e era conhecida pela atuação como educadora e em defesa dos povos tradicionais. Ela era uma das principais vozes do movimento quilombola e negro do Tocantins.
Foto: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images
28 February 2021
Global
Tornar o ecocídio um crime responsabilizaria governos e corporações por negligência ambiental. Nós não podemos esperar
 
Por Jojo Mehta e Julia Jackson 
 
O Acordo de Paris está fracassando. Ainda assim, há uma nova esperança para preservar um planeta habitável: a crescente campanha global para criminalizar o ecocídio pode abordar as principais causas da crise climática e salvaguardar nosso planeta – a casa comum de toda a humanidade, e, de fato, de toda a vida na Terra.
 
World's tropical forests and people imperiled by legal rollbacks under COVID-19
18 February 2021
Global

Threats against indigenous people and rainforests have risen during the coronavirus pandemic as governments have rolled back social and environmental safeguards to boost economic growth, land rights activists said on Thursday.

Nahua hunters in the Peruvian Amazon. Indigenous peoples safeguard 80% of the world’s remaining biodiversity.
18 February 2021
Global

Increasing land grabs endangering forest communities and wildlife as governments expand mining and agriculture to combat economic impact of Covid

 

18 February 2021
Democratic Republic of the Congo

In their quest to bolster economies battered by the pandemic, governments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and elsewhere have set aside social and environmental safeguards in favor of destructive development projects that are harming Indigenous communities and the forests they care for, according to a report released today by Forest Peoples Programme.

Rolling back social and environmental safeguards in the name of COVID-19
Reports & Research
March 2021
Brazil
Colombia
Peru
Indonesia
Global

The webinar Rolling back social and environmental safeguards in the name of COVID-19, organized by Forest Peoples Programme, the Tenure FacilityMiddlesex University, the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and the Land Portal Foundation, took place on Thursday, February 18, 2021.

19 February 2021
Global

El estudio realizado en Colombia, Brasil, Perú, Indonesia y República Democrática del Congo, concluyó que sus Gobiernos están dando prioridad a la reactivación de las economías afectadas por la pandemia, mediante la implementación de políticas que favorecen la desregularización de las actividades extractivas y que ponen en riesgo la vida misma de los pueblos indígenas y de la vida silvestre.

Rolling back social and environmental safeguards: Global Report
Reports & Research
February 2021
Global

This crucial report demonstrates how states and other actors are using the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to roll back social and environmental safeguards. In doing so, they are eroding the rights of indigenous peoples in the five most tropically forested countries of the world

 Acervo CGIIRC/FUNAI
14 February 2021
South America
Brazil
Peru
Em janeiro, os Manxineru da TI Mamoadate por muito pouco não entraram em contato com um grupo de isolados conhecido como Mashco Piro - Acervo CGIIRC/FUNAI
 
Sertanista afirma que nunca aconteceu uma aproximação tão intensa de indígenas isolados no lado brasileiro
 
Rolling back social and environmental safeguards in the name of COVID-19
18 February 2021

Location

Online
United States
US
Global

 

The webinar Rolling back social and environmental safeguards in the name of COVID-19., organized by Forest Peoples Programme, the Tenure Facility,  Middlesex University, the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and the Land Portal, took place on Thursday, February 18, 2021 . 

 

Organizers: 
Forest Peoples Programme
Land Portal Foundation
The Tenure Facility
Mekong Land Research Forum: Annual country reviews 2020-21
Policy Papers & Briefs
February 2021
South-Eastern Asia
Cambodia
Laos
Myanmar
Thailand
Vietnam

The Annual Country Reviews reflect upon current land relations in the Mekong Region, and has been produced for researchers, practitioners and policy advocates operating in the field. Specialists have been selected from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam to briefly answer the following two questions:

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