A Peruvian court has convicted four men of murder-for-hire and handed down prison sentences of between 15 and 35 years for the killing of Kichwa forest defen...

Interview with the founder of Forest Peoples Programme, Marcus Colchester

Five women leaders from Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon took part in a thematic hearing organised by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rig...

By DayakDaily Team KUCHING, July 20: The way to end the long-running timber conflict in Upper Baram is not through more logging, but by recognising Indigenous rights, ensuring genuine consent and s…

Welcome to our Annual Report 2025, celebrating thirty-five years of Forest Peoples Programme.

The tireless struggle of the Inuma family and the community of Santa Rosillo de Yanayacu for justice in the face of the murder of apu Quinto Inuma Alvarado h...

Home- Forest Peoples Programme - Working with forest peoples to secure their rights

Indigenous guards from four Shipibo communities living on Lake Yacumama, in the province of Coronel Portillo, Ucayali region, accompanied by the Regional Organisation of Indigenous Guards (ORGI), succ...

Today, (9 February), the East Africa Indigenous Women-Led Assembly (EAIWA) released a statement condemning planned evictions in Mukogodo forest that would fo...

Over 80 members of Indigenous Bagyeli communities from across Océan in the South region of Cameroon met for the annual Bagyeli Assembly which took place on 9...

The Indigenous Government the Indigenous Resguardo of Colonial Origin Cañamomo Lomaprieta (RCMLP) in Caldas (Colombia) has issued a public statement denounci...

Forest Peoples Programme welcomes a formal letter issued by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) dated 19 January 2026 under i...

Five men are set to stand trial in Peru over the 2023 killing of an Indigenous Amazon defender. The rare case, which is due to start on Tuesday, could test the legal accountability for violence linked...

Article- Forest Peoples Programme - Working with forest peoples to secure their rights

Article- Forest Peoples Programme - Working with forest peoples to secure their rights

JAKARTA — The world’s largest sustainable timber label is under fire for revising how it applies its rules on corporate accountability — a move activists say could let forestry giants long tied to def...

This report presents the results of a global scoping exercise to identify and characterize monitoring initiatives led by or partnered with Indigenous Peoples...

This briefing paper provides a summary of the resistance struggles to defend ancestral territory as a collective right, the critical human rights situations ...