COVID - 19

Statement from Indigenous Women’s Organisations of Nepal on COVID-19

Written on 15 May 2020.

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. Indigenous Peoples possess their own distinct tradition, culture, and religion and have religious faith worshiper of ancestors, lands, territories and resources live in both urban and rural areas with their own identity.

Indigenous realities in a COVID-19 world: Africa

Written on 14 May 2020.

The spread of COVID-19 in Africa, so far, has reportedly been lower and caused fewer fatalities than on other continents, but the World Health Organisation (WHO) fears a rapid acceleration of the spread of the pandemic in the coming months.ⁱ This would have a devastating outcome due to the region’s fragile health-care systems and particularly devastating consequences for the marginalised and vulnerable Indigenous communities on the continent.

Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights Defenders in the Philippines threatened and harassed

Written on 11 May 2020.

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.

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

Written on 13 May 2020.

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, national human rights institutions and other stakeholders, to contribute to the preparation of his report, which will be presented to the General Assembly in October 2020.

Deadline: 15 June 2020

Safeguarding the health, wellbeing and livelihoods of indigenous peoples across the world in face of COVID-19

Written on 07 May 2020.

Statement by the Group of Friends of Indigenous Peoples

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Indigenous Peoples at increased risk due to coronavirus

COVID - 19

Statement from Indigenous Women’s Organisations of Nepal on COVID-19

Indigenous realities in a COVID-19 world: Africa

Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights Defenders in the Philippines threatened and harassed

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

Safeguarding the health, wellbeing and livelihoods of indigenous peoples across the world in face of COVID-19

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