#Opinion by Rukka sombolinggi on Just Transition and Indigenous Peoples 🌦️🌬️

'Worldwide, we are experiencing land-grabs and a rising tide of criminalization and attacks for speaking out against mining and renewable energy projects that violate our rights with impacts that are…

In the #Philippines , mining on Indigenous land requires a consultation process.

❌After a rejection, ISRI applied for a new round of consultations, which resulted in an agreement to allow mining. Elders say they weren’t informed about the consultations

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☑️Del 22 al 24 de abril, los 16 Estados que forman parte del #AcuerdoDeEscazú aprobaron el Plan de Acción sobre personas defensoras ambientales.

En total fueron 4⃣ peticiones las que hicieron llegar los voceros indígenas a la Secretaría del Acuerdo de Escazú:
🪶Representación…

⚠️‘A lot of collective trauma’: Sweden’s Indigenous #Sami people speak to #TruthCommission

✍️🏾The commission has heard a lot of histories about violence, abuse, boarding schools, and forcible removal of Sami people from their traditional homelands 🦌

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🇨🇦🐢Allowing First Nations to be more actively involved in governance would lead to fisheries decisions that are guided by Indigenous value systems and ecosystem health🎣, rather than the current focus on catching a$ many fish as possible

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📢Declaration of the Indigenous Peoples of #Brazil

We will be vigilant to ensure that President Lula fulfills his commitment to set up ... a Task Force ... to talk to the 3⃣ Branches of Government and demarcate all our lands once and for all

👉🏾apiboficial.org/2024/04/26/ter…

On critical minerals and the right to say no, media may connect via InterviewHer with activist Joan Carling of #Indigenous Peoples Rights International Indigenous Peoples’ Rights International - IPRI
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#Indonesia The Lanun Indigenous community of Belitung Island responded to increasing environmental damage by building their capacity in skills such as advocacy and mediation
At issue is the growth in illegal mining and forest clearing 🪵 on their lands: tinyurl.com/mv4u8r7x

🇧🇷Minister Gilmar Mendes suspended all lawsuits dealing with the constitutionality of #MarcoTemporal & ordered the setup of a conciliation process.

“We're not here to form a coalition and sell or raffle off our territorial rights”: Kari Guajajara

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🔎The presentation of the Criminalization report has been one of the central events of the #UNPFII2024

Read the obvious and the hidden aspects that are used to criminalize indigenous peoples in their defense of the land 🌱and their ways of life 🏹

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During his visit to 🇨🇦Canada, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to water and sanitation highlighted 2⃣ issues related to #IndigenousPeoples and #HumanRightsViolations :

💧Canada's failure to provide First Nations with clean drinking water
💧The criminalization of…

🇧🇷Con el lema 'Nuestro marco es ancestral, siempre hemos estado aquí', el Campamento Tierra Libre 🏹comenzó este lunes (22) en Brasilia.

✊🏾La edición de 2024 se centrará en la lucha contra el #MarcoTemporal , una teoría según la cual los pueblos indígenas sólo tienen derecho a…

Carta dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil aos Três Poderes do Estado Acampamento Terra Livre, Brasília, 22 de abril de 2024. apiboficial.org/2024/04/22/vin…

✊🏾Good news in #Tanzania !

Companies and funders 💴of conservation & tourism projects must ensure that they respect and protect the rights of indigenous peoples, the true #StewardsOfNature

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Caminhada pelo Clima em Defesa da Terra - Rumo à COP 30! Participo hoje da Semana dos Povos Indígenas, no Pará, realizada pelo Governo do Pará, com apoio do Ministério dos Povos Indígenas 🏹!

⚖️ Tres casos de asesinatos a líderes indígenas en Brasil y Perú podrían obtener finalmente justicia. Así avanzan los juicios de los crímenes de Paulo Paulino Guajajara, Quinto Inuma y de los dirigentes ashéninkas de la comunidad Alto Tamaya-Saweto. 🧵⬇️ es.mongabay.com/2024/04/asesin…

🌟 We wrapped up our first week at #UNPFII 🇺🇳 with amazing encounters, alliances, and possibilities for continued growth in upholding Indigenous Peoples' Rights.

🗓️ Yesterday's agenda included:

🔷 Delivering a statement on the implementation of UNDRIP
🔷Participating in two side…