Download Indigenous Peoples` Rights

The UN Human Rights Process
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The Martinez-Cobo Report (1983)
The Working Group on Indigenous Populations
(1982)
The ILO Convention 169 (1989)
The Second International Decade of the World’s
Indigenous People (2005-15)
The UN Permanent Forum For Indigenous People
(July 2000)
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights
and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people
UNHRC Expert mechanism on the rights of
indigenous peoples (EMRIP - 2008)
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples (September 2007)
The UNDRIP: 46 articles – at least 15
relevant to conservation
 Article 29. 1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the
conservation and protection of the environment and
the productive capacity of their lands or territories
and resources. States shall establish and implement
assistance programmes for indigenous peoples for
such conservation and protection, without
discrimination.
 Article 20. 1. Indigenous peoples have the right to
maintain and develop their political, economic and
social systems or institutions, to be secure in the
enjoyment of their own means of subsistence and
development, and to engage freely in all their
traditional and other economic activities.
International Environmental Instruments
 The Convention on Biological Diversity
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(Traditional knowledge, customary
management, protected areas, other areas)
The Ramsar Convention – guidelines, culture
The UN Forum on Forests
The UN Convention to Combat Desertification
The World Heritage Convention
The UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change
The non-governmental conservation community
(CIHR), 2009
International Environmental Instruments
 General approach: inclusive of indigenous and
traditional peoples – definitions are less
important than characteristics of peoples and
communities in relation to natural resources
 Focus mostly on how traditional knowledge and
management practices can help conservation of
nature and how conservation can help
livelihoods
Issues in the international conservation agenda
 Landscape approach
 Ecosystem approach
 Ecoystems goods and services
 Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
 Climate change adaptation
 Cultural aspects of ecosystem management
 Governance of natural resources
 New PA paradigm
 Food security based on good management of
ecosystems and biodiversity
 Growing concern about extractive industries