INTRODUÇÃO Apesar do importante avanço registrado em matéria de proteção dos direitos dos povos indígenas no cenário internacional, muitas organizações, povos e pessoas indígenas desconhecem os instrumentos internacionais que protegem seus direitos, assim como os mecanismos existentes para os fazer cumprir. O presente manual pretende, portanto, oferecer a pessoas e povos indígenas, assim como às organizações que os representam e defendem informações e ferramentas concretas que possam contribuir com a defesa de seus direitos.

Nota do Secretariado

O Secretariado tem a honra de transmitir ao Conselho de Direitos Humanos o relatório da Relatora Especial sobre os direitos dos Povos Indígenas, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz sobre sua missão ao Brasil de -7 a 17 de março de 2016. O objetivo principal da visita foi identificar e avaliar os assuntos mais importantes que atualmente enfrentam os povos indígenas no país e acompanhar as principais recomendações feitas em 2009 pelo anterior titular do mandato.

Até quando?

Dom Roque Paloschi*
* Presidente do Conselho Indigenista Missionário (Cimi) e arcebispo de Porto Velho

“Quero ver o direito brotar como fonte e correr a justiça qual riacho que não seca”
Profeta Amós 5,24

O Conselho Indigenista Missionário (Cimi) acolhe com carinho o apelo do Papa Francisco quando nos diz:  

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Farmer organisations that deal with policy and advocacy need a lot of specific skills. Exchange programmes with their counterparts in the North can help local farmer organisation in the Souht tap their potential.

ELD is a joint initiative of Germany, the European Commission and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). ELD offers a strong platform for raising public awareness of land degradation and advocating sustainable land-use strategies.

This country level analysis addresses land governance in Laos in two ways. First, it summarises what the existing body of knowledge tells us about power and configurations that shape access to and exclusion from land, particularly among smallholders, the rural poor, ethnic minorities and women. Second, it draws upon existing literature and expert assessment to provide a preliminary analysis of the openings for and obstacles to land governance reform afforded by the political economic structures and dynamics in the country.

Article 2(1): 

"1. Civil legislation is based on the recognition of the equality of the participants of the relations regulated thereby, inviolability of property, freedom of agreement, prohibition of arbitrary interference in somebody's private affairs, indispensability of the free exercise of civil rights, and provision for the restitution of violated rights and their defence in the court."

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Climate change and its implications on development in Tanzania should not be understated or ignored. Instead, discussions on our changing climate should begin with the recognition that climate change is undermining efforts to eradicate poverty. Yet, scientific complexities, jargon, uncertainties and debate have led to a general lack of understanding and confusion on how to address a changing climate, including policy prescriptions.