NEW YORK (17 September, 2014)—US$1.64 billion, the funds pledged to date by three major multi-lateral initiatives at the United Nations and World Bank in preparing for the evolving REDD+ carbon market, would expand the demarcation, registration, and titling of rights of the local communities and Indigenous Peoples living on 450 million hectares, an area almost half the size of Europe, according to new research released by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) and Tebtebba (Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education).

Information leaflet on the UN Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) on Self-Determination.

Issue poster about Indigenous Peoples in Asia and their common experiences and issues.

This compilation of scoping studies on indigenous peoples in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Philippines reveals how the basic bond of indigenous peoples to land are threatened by forces far more powerful than they are equipped to face.

1. The Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, visited Brazil from 7 to 17 March 2016, at the invitation of the Government. The purpose of the visit was to identify and assess the main issues currently facing indigenous peoples in the country and to follow up on key recommendations made in 2009 by the previous mandate holder, following his visit to Brazil.

A new report offers evidence that the modest investments needed to secure land rights for indigenous communities will generate billions in returns—economically, socially and environmentally—for local communities and the world’s changing climate. The report, Climate Benefits, Tenure Costs: The Economic Case for Securing Indigenous Land Rights, quantifies for the first time the economic value of securing land rights for the communities who live in and protect forests, with a focus on Colombia, Brazil, and Bolivia.

The study’s findings offer the most compelling quantitative evidence to date of the unparalleled role that forest peoples have to play in climate change mitigation, reinforcing the critical importance of collective tenure security for the sustainable use and protection of the world’s tropical forests and the carbon they sequester.

Repasa la legislación agraria desde la reforma de 1953, pasando por la constitución del 2009 y la legislación boliviana hasta septiembre del 2013.

Se tata de una comunidad indígena que es reconocida como Resguardo, y además, tiene titulado su territorio de manera colectiva, ejerciendo su derecho a la gestión.

Un caso con énfasis en la consecución de legislación y políticas del Estado, a través de los derechos de los pueblos indígenas. En esta estrategia los pueblos impugnan la soberanía del Estado nacional sobre sus territorios.

Ivitiporä es un caso que muestra la lucha por la libertad y el territorio. Las estrategias para disputar el territorio, la compra de tierras para formar la comunidad y articularse con diversos actores e instituciones para reasentar a la población que se liberaba del yugo de la explotación o buscaba nuevas oportunidades en tierras más fértiles.

Es el caso del Cabildo Indígena del Resguardo de Corinto, que accede colectivamente a su territorio ancestral a través de procesos de recuperación de tierras de la mano del Estado, y también, mediante compra convencional de tierras, para añadirlas al espacio comunitario.