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Indigenous Peoples

Synonyms: 
indigenous communities
indigenous community

People whose ancestors inhabited a place or a country when persons from another culture or ethnic background arrived on the scene and dominated them through conquest, settlement, or other means and who today live more in conformity with their own social, economic, and cultural customs and traditions than those of the country of which they now form a part.

 

Source: Convention (No. 169) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, UNHCHR, 1991.

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Institutional & promotional materials
March 2019
South America
Peru

Este estudio tuvo como objetivo analizar los procesos de titulación en varias comunidades nativas y sus consecuencias para sus habitantes y los bosques, a fin de brindar información que permita mejorar las iniciativas de titulación en curso.

Institutional & promotional materials
February 2019
South America
Peru

Este documento es una síntesis de los resultados de la investigación aplicada "Titulación de las Comunidades Nativas – Avances y desafíos" en la región de Ucayali, que tuvo como objetivo analizar el proceso de titulación y su impacto en doce comunidades nativas de tres pueblos indígenas en las refiones de  San Martín y Ucayali.

From Hill tribes to Indigenous Peoples
Journal Articles & Books
February 2019
Thailand

This article presents a chronology of the growth of the concept of Indigeneity in Thailand, analysing the particular ways in which the global Indigenous movement has taken root in the country.

Land Governance in Post-Conflict Settings: Interrogating Decision-Making by International Actors cover image
Peer-reviewed publication
February 2019
Burundi
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Humanitarian and development organizations working in conflict-affected settings have a particular responsibility to do no harm and contribute to the wellbeing of the population without bias.

Peer-reviewed publication
January 2019
Canada

This article provides analysis of the issues relating to movement towards new models for Indigenous-led conservation in light of Canada’s initiatives for greater protected areas representation through Target 1. We provide a background on Canada’s Pathway to Target 1, which is based on Target 11 from the Aichi Biodiversity Targets set forth by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

Institutional & promotional materials
January 2019
South America
Peru

The Government of Peru is gradually advancing in the process of recognizing and formalizing the territorial rights of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. 

Institutional & promotional materials
January 2019
South America
Peru

El Gobierno del Perú está avanzando poco a poco en el proceso de reconocimiento y formalización de los derechos territoriales de los pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía. 

Imazon
Journal Articles & Books
January 2019
Latin America and the Caribbean
South America
Brazil
Guimarães, J., Amaral, P., Pinto, A. & Gomes, I. Preços de Produtos da Floresta: uma década de pesquisa e divulgação (p. 52). Belém: Imazon, 2019
 
Etnografica
Journal Articles & Books
January 2019
South America
Brazil

Esse artigo se propõe pensar de que forma pessoas, “almas” e “caboclos”, em suas diversas modulações, convivem e povoam o espaço de uma ilha situada no trecho submédio do rio São Francisco, no Brasil, a Ilha do Massangano.

Indigenous Land Rights and the Marginalization of the Orang Asli in Malaysia
Peer-reviewed publication
January 2019
Malaysia

Although the Orang Asli are the original, indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, they have been largely excluded from the country’s economic growth of recent decades. Rather than protect this marginalized community, state officials and private agencies regularly exploit the Orang Asli and their ancestral lands.