Report by Sofea Dil, Christopher Ewell, Anna Wherry and Cathal Doyle. Forest Peoples Programme.
February 2021.
A new report by the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) in partnership with the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School and Middlesex University London’s School of Law evaluates the state of human rights among Indigenous peoples in five tropical forest countries: Brazil, Colombia, Peru, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Indonesia.
One of the key findings is that governments in these countries are prioritizing the expansion of the energy sector, infrastructure, mining and logging, and the development of industrial agriculture close to or inside Indigenous territories, while loosening oversight of land grabbing and illegal deforestation. Indigenous peoples have had to adapt their resistance and fight to the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic to avoid having their rights violated even further.
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