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 ID: 630472
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Slide1
Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
Key
benchmarks
of the
past
decade
Slide2
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)
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
)Slide3
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.Slide4
International Environmental InstrumentsThe
Convention on Biological
Diversity
(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), 2009Slide5
International Environmental InstrumentsGeneral
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 Slide6
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