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Mission
Forest Peoples Programme supports the rights of peoples who live in forests and depend on them for their livelihoods. We work to create political space for forest peoples to secure rights, control their lands and decide their own futures.
Goals
- Get the rights and interests of forest peoples recognised in laws, policies and programmes
- Support forest peoples to build their own capacities to claim and exercise their human rights
- Counter top-down policies and projects that threaten the rights of forest peoples
- Promote community-based sustainable forest management
- Ensure equity, counter discrimination and promote gender justice
- Inform NGO actions on forests in line with forest peoples’ visions
- Link up indigenous and forest peoples’ movements at the regional and international levels
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Displaying 6 - 10 of 52Indigenous peoples and local communities create Api-Api declaration at Asia Parks Congress
Assurer la Participation des Femmes dans la Foresterie Communautaire
Conservation communautaire au Cameroun
Depuis les années 1980, les efforts de conservation dans les pays en développement ont tenté de concilier les objectifs de la biologie de conservation et le développement social. Les approches sont multiples. Cependant la conservation intégrée construite autour des aires protégées reste le modèle le plus soutenu par les politiques et les stratégies des pays (Busquet, 2006 ; Clarke, 2019).
Stepping up: Protecting collective land rights through corporate due diliegence
This guide is intended to supplement other resources that provide broader overviews of human rights due diligence. It will be particularly helpful for downstream businesses or investors as they navigate how to identify, address, and track the impacts of their value chains on indigenous peoples. The guide will also be useful for policymakers as they design due diligence legislation.
Rolling back social and environmental safeguards in the name of COVID-19
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 Foundation, took place on Thursday, February 18, 2021.
Global leaders increasingly recognize that land rights for indigenous and local communities are a prerequisite for achieving national and international goals for forest governance, food security, climate mitigation, economic development and human rights.