CEESP News: Vivienne Solis Rivera, biologist, honorary member of the ICCA Consortium, part of the Board of Directors of ICSF, and CEESP member
A healthy ocean is contingent upon respect for the rights of small scale fishers and Indigenous communities that rely on the ocean for life and…
CEESP News:ÌýSuryakanta Acharya1
In the fall of 2021, we helped Indigenous communities in Assam, India manage the government’s unjust garbage dumping practices. Our activism, along with the efforts of other NGOs and judiciary interventions, were enough to compel the municipality to shift…
CEESP News:ÌýMarine Gauthier,ÌýSocial and Environmental Safeguards Expert - UNDP & CEESP member
In 2022, the Democratic Republic of the Congo recognized the customary rights of its Indigenous population by adopting a new law on Indigenous Pygmy Peoples. Its enforcement could become the…
CEESP News: Josefa Cariño Tauli, policy co-coordinator, Global Youth Biodiversity Network (…
CEESP News:ÌýPasang Dolma Sherpa,ÌýPhD, Chair of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ CEESP Specialist Group on Indigenous Peoples, Customary & Environmental Laws, and Human Rights (SPICEH) & Director of Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Research and Development (CIPRED)Ìý
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CEESP News: Salam Rajesh, CEESP member
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Manipur’s Loktak Lake is one of India’s Ramsar sites. A significant natural inland freshwater wetland, Loktak supports a diversity of life including Indigenous Meitei fishing population. The fishers have thrived upon the lake resources for…
CEESP News: Bheka Nxele,ÌýProgramme Manager on the implementation of a Working for Ecosystems Programme, for eThekwini Municipality in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa & CEESP member
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We highlight the importance of incorporating Indigenous knowledge in ecosystemÌý…
As the World Heritage Convention celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2022, over 1100 sites around the world are recognized as World Heritage - placesÌý that are so valuable to humanity that there conservation has been deemed our collective responsibility. Yet many of these exceptional places face…
Jordan was selected to implement a six-year-project,Ìýaiming at demonstrating and scaling-up successful sustainable land management practices for the control and prevention of desertification and deforestation.