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Community Organizations International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
Acronym
IWGIA
Network

Focal point

Dwayne Mamo, Documentation & Communications Manager
Email
Phone number
+45 5373 2837

Location

Prinsessegade 29 B, 3rd floor
1422
Copenhagen
Denmark
Working languages
Danish
English
Spanish

IWGIA is a non-governmental human rights organisation promoting and defending Indigenous Peoples’ collective and individual rights.

We have supported our partners in this fight for more than 50 years.

We work through a global network of Indigenous Peoples’ organisations and international human rights bodies.

We promote recognition, respect and implementation of Indigenous Peoples’ rights, including the right to self-determination by virtue of which they can freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development. 

Visit our website for more information and to access all our publications, including our flagship annual book The Indigenous World, a yearly overview of the state of the rights of Indigenous Peoples across individual countries and through various international mechanisms and processes. 

Members:

Dwayne Mamo

Resources

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IWGIA Urgent Alert

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2009
Tanzania

IWGIA has recently been informed by local partners in Tanzania that a government operation aimed at forcefully removing pastoralists from the Kilosa district in the Morogoro Region in southern Tanzania started on the 29.1.2009. The Tanzanian government wants to remove all pastoralists from Kilosa district and, according to some sources, the whole of Morogoro Region, and force them to other areas of Tanzania. Such areas have though, according to IWGIA local partners as yet not been specified, and the affected families do not know where to go to.

Land, People and Politics: Contest Over Tribal Land in Northeast India

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2008
India

Land is the centre of most conflicts in Northeast India because of its importance in the life of the people of the region, particularly its tribal communities. It is also the resource most under attack, in the tribal areas in particular.


This book contains studies papers conducted by a group of researchers on land alienation in different states of the Northeast in 2005-2006.


The book attempt to understand the processes that result in tribal land alienation and the consequent conflicts in the region.


Will pastoral legislation disempower pastoralists in the Sahel?

December, 2005
Mauritania
Guinea
Burkina Faso
Mali
Sub-Saharan Africa

Guinea, Mauritania, Mali, and Burkina Faso have all passed specific legislation in support of pastoralism. This paper reports that while some of these laws provide an improved framework for the management of rangelands and greater tenure security for pastoralists, they contain conceptual and practical problems which may ultimately further marginalise pastoral people.Crucially, the new legislation seeks to manage access to resources through complicated procedures controlled by various levels of government.