En América Latina se registran actualmente 826 pueblos indígenas que, para el año 2010, agrupaban a cerca de 45 millones de personas.

La ONU ha sido pionera en la defensa de sus derechos. En este video, la CEPAL convoca a los países de la región a poner en práctica políticas que pongan fin a las desigualdades que les afectan.

Na América Latina existem atualmente 826 povos indígenas que, para o ano de 2010, estão agrupados em cerca de 45 milhões de pessoas.

A ONU foi pioneira na defesa dos direitos dos povos indígenas. A CEPAL convoca os países da região a colocar em prática políticas que terminem com as desigualdades que eles sofrem.

En esta edición se tratan diversos temas afines al campo de los estudios de población, que siguen el enfoque multidisciplinario y ratifican la inclusión de la perspectiva regional de esta publicación. Se cuenta con el valioso aporte de reconocidos especialistas y sus investigaciones originales enfocadas a distintos países: Argentina, Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de), Brasil, Ecuador, México y Uruguay. Además, se incluye un artículo sobre la presencia de latinoamericanos y caribeños en España y dos trabajos más cuyo universo de estudio es América Latina y el Caribe.

Han pasado 30 años desde la adopción del Convenio sobre Pueblos Indígenas y Tribales, 1989 (núm. 169) de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) y, a pesar de que los Estados de América Latina reconocieron plenamente los derechos de los pueblos indígenas, este continúa siendo uno de los colectivos con mayor rezago en materia económico-social, aun cuando la región ha logrado grandes avances en este ámbito.

La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) presentó el jueves 5 de abril de 2012 el documento "Desigualdades territoriales y exclusión social del pueblo mapuche en Chile: Situación en la comuna de Ercilla desde un enfoque de derechos", elaborado en conjunto con la agrupación Alianza Territorial Mapuche (ATM).

Malaysia has declared its vision of developed country status by the year 2020. Much has been written about its top-down development approach, its relative economic success and the social as well as environmental costs of such approach. In 2011 and 2012 the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) set into motion a national inquiry into the status of customary rights to land in the country. As part of the inquiry, a nationwide series of consultations was held over several months in 2012, culminating in formal public hearings in Peninsular Malyasia, Sarawak and Sabah.

Internationally there are an alarming number of violations of indigenous peoples’ land and human rights. Brazil is currently under the spotlight as the heightening of the political crisis that led to the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff brings national and international concerns over the uncertainty related to changes in policy that may be adopted by the interim Government in relation to indigenous peoples land rights.

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

Over the last several years, the Brazilian government has rolled back environmental and social protections, threatening ecosystems such as the Amazon rainforest and the livelihoods of indigenous peoples and traditional communities. The dismantling of inspection and protection programmes in indigenous territories coupled with political neglect towards the formal demarcation of indigenous lands or the strengthening of public policies to safeguard traditional ways of life has led to social, physical and cultural vulnerability for indigenous peoples.

This paper highlights the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and disenfranchised indigenous peoples and forest communities in Indonesia. The lack of adequate protection of the rights of indigenous peoples and their territories before the pandemic has been made worse by a lack of protection during the pandemic. The challenges faced by forest communities during the pandemic show that access to land and natural resources is crucial for the survival of communities whose livelihoods depend on the forest.

This toolkit provides guidance on the making of fair arrangements that guarantee local benefits to community negotiators and consultants who work with Indigenous communities in Canada. This involves negotiation techniques and strategies. It focuses primarily on the mining sector, but it will be useful in the context of other sectors and contexts too.

This resource is part of the CCSI’s Directory of Community Guidance on Agreements Relating to Agriculture or Forestry Investment.

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These learning modules provide training material for Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ advocates on how to operationalise benefit-sharing and concluding benefit-sharing agreements. There are three modules covering these broad issues in relation to natural resources, traditional knowledge and farmers' rights.