Natural Justice implements its work through three interconnected programmatic pillars.
Overview
Affirming and securing the collective rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to have control over their lands, ecosystems, and traditional knowledge can provide a means of livelihood, spirituality, culture, food, and health. This can in turn lead to increased community agency and resilience and provide the potential for people powered alternatives, solutions, and adaptation to the planetary crisis.
A key part of the Affirming and Securing Rights programme is our Africa Community Land and Territories work, which offers legal support and methodologies to communities affirming their rights to their biodiverse environments, Indigenous People and Community Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCAs) under the Global Biodiversity Framework; and provides legal support to African coastal communities and small-scale fishers in dealing with specific issues concerning the exploitation of the ocean.
Programme Objective
Legally empowered Indigenous Peoples and local communities effectively participate in shaping policy, legal, and institutional frameworks to safeguard and strengthen their environmental and human rights and provide solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises.
