Strengthening Accountability and Redress Mechanisms for Indigenous Peoples in Conservation Policies and Practices

UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, seventeenth Session

This statement is on behalf of Natural Justice, Forest Peoples Programme, SwedBio and the Sengwer Indigenous Peoples Programme. Over the last few years this group of organisations have individually and in partnership worked to highlight the historic and on-going injustices indigenous peoples face in the name of conservation.