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Indigenous Peoples ’ Rights

Indigenous Peoples ’ Rights. Key benchmarks of the past decade. The UN Human Rights Process. 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)

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Indigenous Peoples ’ Rights

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  1. IndigenousPeoples’ Rights Key benchmarks of the pastdecade

  2. The UN Human Rights Process • The Martinez-CoboReport (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) • SpecialRapporteur on the situationof 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)

  3. 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.

  4. International Environmental Instruments • The Convention on Biological Diversity (Traditional knowledge, customary management, protected areas, other areas) • The RamsarConvention – 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

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