Job Opportunity: Data Management Consultant
06 November 2024
We are looking for a Data Management Consultant to join our open data team and support the work on data aggregation, curation, ingestion, and analysis from various sources.
Alarming evidence shows massive deforestation continues in Saamaka territories
31 October 2024
Between June and September 2024, a 57% increase in forest cover loss has been recorded in Saamaka territory, compared to rates observed in the previous 6 years
77% of deforestation inside Saamaka territory has occurred after the 2007 Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) ruling in favour of the Saamaka People.
A call for the inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in Isolation in National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans
29 October 2024
In the crucial context of the COP16 on Biodiversity, the International Working Group for the Protection of Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI) extends a heartfelt invitation to organizations around the world to join our voice in defense of Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI). Sign this petition and let's work together to ensure that governments include PIACI in their National Strategies and Action Plans on Biodiversity.
“Indigenous, Afro-descendant and local community women around the world receive less than 1 percent of international financial support to address climate change,” says new study launched at COP16
22 October 2024
- Investment in gender equality is declining and Indigenous and Afro-descendant women's rights organizations are especially marginalized.
- Between 2016 and 2020, of the $28.5 billion in Official Development Assistance (ODA) Funds designated to support women and girls, only 1.4% went to organizations working with Indigenous women.
- In 2018-2019, Afro-descendant women, girls and trans people received less than 0.5% of global funding.
International Jury Selects Amazon Frontlines to Receive 2024 Hilton Humanitarian Prize
03 September 2024
Amazon Frontlines is the first organization that promotes a scalable, proven model of Indigenous-led conservation and the first organization operating exclusively in South America to receive the Hilton Humanitarian Prize.
The Struggles for Land Podcast- Season 1 - Episode 2 - Commons and communities
29 June 2024
The Struggles for Land Podcast gives a voice to those fighting for access to land and defending the commons.
Focusing on one major theme per episode, the podcast interviews and brings together farmers' organizations, social movements, environmental protection and the defense of the commons, as well as researchers and consumer associations. These exchanges between actors from the four corners of the globe enable us to better understand the local and international stakes, the successes and the difficulties of these mobilizations, which all have in common that they are working towards a society based on peasant and feminist agriculture in harmony with ecosystems.
You can listen to all the episodes on this page and on the various platforms:
The Struggles for Land Podcast: Season 1 - Episode 1 - Land grabbing
29 June 2024
The Struggles for Land Podcast gives a voice to those fighting for access to land and defending the commons.
Focusing on one major theme per episode, the podcast interviews and brings together farmers' organizations, social movements, environmental protection and the defense of the commons, as well as researchers and consumer associations. These exchanges between actors from the four corners of the globe enable us to better understand the local and international stakes, the successes and the difficulties of these mobilizations, which all have in common that they are working towards a society based on peasant and feminist agriculture in harmony with ecosystems.
You can listen to all the episodes on this page and on the various platforms:
"The world is dressing up in diversity."
06 June 2024
Interview with a same-sex couple who requested a joint title to formalize their property in Colombia.
Grant Solicitation: Support for Environmental Defenders
07 May 2024
ILRG II seeks concept papers for the Environmental Defenders Grant Fund, designed to support environmental defender organizations with the resources necessary to enhance their impact in addressing the land-related root cause of threats, and ensure the long-term sustainability of their vital work: Grant Solicitation: ILRG II-RFA-001 (site.com).
Colonialism Revamped in the Democratic Republic of Congo
21 April 2024
140 years ago this November at the Berlin Conference, Belgium’s King Leopold was recognized as the sole owner of the Congo Free State, a territory including the entirety of today’s Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Leopold’s reign was marked by slavery, millions of deaths, and widespread atrocities committed during the first colonial exploitation of the territory’s exceptional wealth of natural resources.
64 years after its independence, the DRC remains plagued by various forms of colonialism and extraction, resulting in massive human suffering, land grabs, human rights abuses, hunger and poverty.
FAO Vacancy Announcement: Land Tenure Officer for Asia and the Pacific region
28 February 2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is seeking qualified candidates for the below position:
Vacancy Announcement 2400483 - Land Tenure Officer, P-3, Bangkok
Oxfam Novib Job Opportunity: Policy Lead Land Rights
06 February 2024
Do you want to fight for equality? Tackle inequality at its roots, together with colleagues, partner organizations, and activists in more than 90 countries? To change the systems behind it, once and for all?
Oxfam Novib stands behind the people who stand up for equality. Together, we fight for a world where everyone has equal opportunities, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or skin color. A world where everyone feels safe; where income gaps are shrinking instead of growing, where climate change is tackled in a firmer and more honest way.