Today marks 25 years of the signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord between the Government of Bangladesh and the United People’s Party of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, that was supposed to put an end to a long-lasting armed conflict between the Bangladesh Army and the Indigenous Peoples of
Land is Life’s Latin America Program Assistant, Majo Andrade Cerda, attended the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh over the past two weeks. Along with coordinating our side event on the rights of Indigenous Peoples Living in Voluntary Isolation, Majo attended many discussions alongside Indigenous leaders of
While the UN climate negotiations of COP27 are under way in Sharm el-Sheikh, another notable event, the 41st session of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is currently taking place in Geneva, Switzerland. Over this two-week session, 14 States have their human rights records examined. The UPR
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) released its General Recommendation on the Rights of Indigenous Women and Girls last week. The recommendation is the first-ever binding instrument focused specifically on the rights of Indigenous girls and women. CEDAW is a UN treaty body, under
Latin America is a violent environment for Indigenous leaders who are defending their territories from extractivist industries. The spiral of violence that Indigenous peoples are facing has again claimed a new victim, this time in Ecuador over the past weekend. Alba Bermeo Puin, a 24 year-old Indigenous defender and anti-mining
East Africa has been suffering from severe drought for two years in a row. This is one of the numerous impacts of climate change that drastically affects people who have least contributed to it. Earlier this month, Enkishon Indigenous Initiative, a community-based organization devoted to supporting Maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya,
