"Pueblos indígenas y gestión de la pandemia por COVID-19. Vulneraciones a los derechos de los pueblos indígenas y a sus territorios" es producto del acompañamiento institucional del Centro de Estudios Jurídicos e Investigación Social (CEJIS) a las organizaciones indígenas durante la pandemia de
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Los jödi, yanomami y uwottüja en aislamiento voluntario se ven
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Este informe, resultado de un ejercicio de recopilación de datos dirigido por comunidades indígenas en 11 países y basado en el marco y las herramientas del Navegador Indígena, analiza las experiencias de los pueblos indígenas en un mundo del trabajo en transformación.
In 2020, Indigenous Amazonian communities implemented a self-imposed lockdown as protection against the rapid spread of COVID-19. During the lockdown, recently-installed satellite Internet proved to be a lifesaver. Through this Internet connectivity, the Indigenous representative organisation,
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Since March 2020, IWGIA has worked to monitor the impacts of the pandemic on Indigenous Peoples around the globe and supported partners in their efforts to protect themselves from the health ramifications of the virus as well as the emergency law procedures enacted in
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Human rights violations have escalated in Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Indigenous Peoples are disproportionately affected, putting the structural inequalities and discrimination that Indigenous Peoples face into sharper focus as they are met by multiple threats simultaneously.
On the basis of a collaborative, community-led data-gathering effort and testimonies from indigenous communities, this report provides first-hand information on the situation of indigenous peoples in 11 countries where communities have participated in the Indigenous Navigator initiative. It
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PRESS RELEASE
India’s indigenous peoples bearing the brunt of COVID recovery plans, NGOs urge Indian Government to stop use of coal for recovery
Copenhagen/New Delhi, 11 September 2020: On the eve of auctioning of 41 coal
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This report documents how government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have not only failed to alleviate the impact of COVID-19 on India’s Indigenous Peoples, but made their often already desperate situation even worse. To make matters worse, the government used the temporary paralysis of the
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A Rapid Assessment Report The impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Bangladesh
Author: Trimita Chakma
Editor: Pallab Chakma
The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting indigenous peoples, exacerbating underlying structural inequalities and pervasive discrimination. These serious impacts need to be specifically addressed in the responseto and aftermathof
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COVID-19 Pandemic Multiplies Burden and Vulnerabilities of Indigenous Women in Asia
Thailand, June 22 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened humanity and wellbeing globally. The severity of its impact on Indigenous Peoples,
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Press Statement: International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission
June 26, 2020, Dhaka
The International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission is alarmed at the reports of allegations of human rights violations, especially against the
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As the world has experienced the outbreak and rapid spread of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic over the first quarter of 2020, IWGIA has worked to monitor how the situation has developed and the impacts the pandemic
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The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a calamitous global event, but it is revealing the worst fears, especially, human rights, conflict, racism, and starvation.
Amazighs living in the various Tamazgha countries (North Africa and the Sahara) consider the national public media (especially TV) to be unreliable. Therefore, when they need information, they generally get it from foreign television stations broadcast by
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The WHO has declared the outbreak of COVID 19 as a global pandemic. The entire world has been caught unprepared to cope with this pandemic. Indigenous Peoples to healthcare, essential services, sanitation, information and other preventive measures like clean water, food, medicines etc.
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The Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is calling for inputs from Member States, Indigenous Peoples representatives bodies and organisations, civil society actors, health workers and agencies,
Call for inputs: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples to the General Assembly Impact of COVID-19 on indigenous peoples
IWGIA has just learned that the harassment and threats to members of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) and their families in the Philippines have escalated since they have criticised the government's interventions on COVID-19 in mid-April.
Statement by the Group of Friends of Indigenous Peoples
Message of Ms Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, on the COVID-19 pandemic
April 29th, 2020
On 29 April 2020, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples released the following video address on
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As large parts of the world’s population are sitting at home in self- and authority-imposed isolation watching the development of the major public health crisis,
The Working Group on the Rights of Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa (Working Group), a Special Mechanism of the
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IWGIA echoes the essential call for responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic to consider Indigenous Peoples and their human rights, as Inter-American Commission on Human Rights(IACHR) resolution states:
The
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The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) and Circumpolar Inuit Health Committee (CIHSC) express their strong concern about the higher risk that rural and remote Inuit communities face in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Our partners at ONAMIAP (Organización Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas Andinas y Amazónicas del Perú/National Organisation of Andean and Amazon Indigenous Women of Peru) have taken a proactive stance in responding to major issues and challenges raised by the emergence of the
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Amid the global
April 15, 2020, Tucson, Arizona: The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC), an Indigenous Peoples’ organization with hundreds of affiliates from the North, Central, and South America, the Caribbean, and the Arctic and Pacific regions, is profoundly concerned about the
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Many aspects contribute to the vulnerability and particular risk for Indigenous People in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic. The following are voices speaking directly from different Indigenous communities on
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By –Dilip Chakma, Convenor, Indigenous Lawyers Association of India (ILAI) and Paritosh Chakma, Advisor, ILAI
Coronavirus (COVID-19) has been declared as a pandemic and its impact on the world
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By Beatriz Huertas and Neptalí Cueva
The compulsory isolation declared by several countries to prevent the spread of COVID-19 calls for reflection on the isolation that several Indigenous Peoples have chosen in order to survive external intervention that, with different interests,
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Indigenous Peoples at increased risk due to coronavirus
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