Indigenous peoples play a critical role in protecting nature and stemming biodiversity loss worldwide, yet their perspectives ...

As the COP30 climate summit in the Amazon draws near, pressure is mounting to get funding directly into the hands of Indigenous and local community organizations who are the frontline defenders of the ...

WWF's own policies emphasize the importance of advancing human rights in all our efforts. The principles of WWF's social ...

The new pledges must be implemented with urgency and transparency. WWF welcomes the launch of the Intergovernmental Land Tenure Commitment (ILTC) and the renewed Forest and Land Tenure Pledge at the ...

An international collaboration, co-led by a University of Minnesota Medical School researcher, has published a paper in ...

On a May morning in 2023, more than 200 Indigenous, local community, and Afro-descendant women from 20 countries on four continents bustled into a hotel meeting space in Brazzaville, the capital of ...

This project convened a series of thematic sessions and dialogues bringing together Indigenous communicators, community media ...

TRAFFIC is proud to join the global “The Pledge We Want”, calling for equitable funding, recognition of rights, and meaningful access for Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) in ...

When the United Nations marked the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples last week, it signaled a growing recognition of a new kind of extraction. Artificial intelligence, or AI, systems ...

The indigenous and women-led non-profit, Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo (CIELO), a human rights organization dedicated to language access, cultural preservation, and social justice, recalls many ...

Dozens of Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities are at risk because of an upsurge in violence in north-western Colombia. Hundreds have fled to other parts of Colombia, a few have crossed the ...