Controversial carbon credits scheme in Kenya re-certified by Verra for the second time - Survival International response
Carbon certifier Verra has re-certified for the second time a controversial carbon credits project in Kenya.
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Kenya: Indigenous people reject attempts to re-start troubled carbon credit project
Maasai and Rendille people say they are being coerced into signing away land rights.
Race against time: Kawahiva demarcation begins in Brazil’s Amazon
More than 25 years after the uncontacted Indigenous Kawahiva people’s existence was officially confirmed, the demarcation of the Kawahiva do Rio Pardo Indigenous Territory in central Brazil began this week.
Milan: Indigenous protesters link Italian leather industry to destruction of their uncontacted relatives’ forests
Indigenous people and their supporters protested in Milan to highlight the connection between Italy’s leather industry and its impact on uncontacted people in Paraguay.
Tanzania: Maasai protest UNESCO's complicity in their eviction for “conservation”
Maasai people have protested in one of Tanzania’s most important tourism destinations over their eviction in the name of conservation, to highlight UNESCO’s complicity in the persecution of Maasai people.
Tanzania: Commissions call for mass eviction of Indigenous Maasai from world-famous tourist destinations.
Two presidential commissions have recommended the mass eviction of Maasai people from some of East Africa’s most iconic conservation areas and tourist destinations.
Indigenous people blockade highway to protest the destruction of their territory
Ayoreo people were forcibly contacted, have now been abandoned
Indonesia: Ground-breaking event to strengthen global alliance for uncontacted peoples' rights culminates in new Jakarta Declaration
Indigenous leaders and organizations came together to sign a declaration supporting uncontacted peoples' rights.