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According to José Francisco Cali Tzay, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, addressing the colonial legacy’s impact would represent a key measure to tackle past ...
The UN launched the International Decade of Indigenous Languages on Friday to help them thrive and preserve them. Indigenous peoples have unique cultures and ways of interacting with people and the ...
The United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) has called upon Sweden to follow through with its obligations set out in the new national law on consultation of January 2022 ...
A UN human rights expert called on the Brazilian Supreme Court to secure the rights of indigenous peoples to their lands and to reject a legal argument being promoted by some businesses that want to ...
Carta Democratica Interamericana. Guıá de acción política para enfrentar la pandemia del COVID-19, May 2020. Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) COVID-19 in Women's Life: ...
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) Statement on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and economic, social and cultural rights, 17 April 2020. Department of ...
The 30th issue of Sur - International Journal on Human Rights is aimed at showing the faces and trajectories of human rights defenders and celebrating their achievements without giving up thinking ...
In July 2020, Global Witness published an Annual Report on Land and Environmental Defenders. The report, entitled Defending Tomorrow, contains information regarding the situation around ...
Ludovica Dal Molin, holds a master's degree in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance from the University of Padova. She is currently working in an organization that deals with the integration ...
The Coalition for Human Rights in Development and the Defenders in Development Campaign have published “Uncalculated Risks. Threats and attacks against human rights defenders and the role of ...
The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, is raising the alarm regarding the fact that governments and corporations around the world are making it ...
The Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, published the report which examines the situation of indigenous peoples in Mexico. The report is based on ...
Copenhagen, Denmark 5 - 6 September 2018 The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) with the financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark is organising the ...
Despite the large mechanization in the agrofuels sector, there are still some activities requiring the intensive human labour: the preparation of the soil before sowing, mostly pulling up roots and ...
The indigenous peoples' right to own and possess their territories extends to natural resources. The ILO Convention No. 169 specifies that the term 'land' used in Article 14 of the Convention is ...
