The Indigenous World 2024 launching at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Written on 12 April 2024.

IWGIA is proud to launch the 38^th edition of The Indigenous World on Tuesday 16 April at 13:15 (NYC time) at the 23^rd session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the UN headquarters in New York City. 

The official launch side-event, which will focus on the topic of “Respecting and promoting Indigenous Peoples´ rights to lands and self-determination: ensuring a sustainable future for all”, intends to serve as a contribution to the main topic of the 23^rd session. 

The event will be held in Conference Room 4 and will be broadcast online here for those not in attendance in New York. English and Spanish simultaneous interpretation will be provided for in-person attendees. 

We are delighted to once again hold the event with our co-sponsor the Permanent Mission of Denmark to the United Nations in New York.

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Indigenous communities in Kenya still tied up in court proceedings over the Lake Turkana Wind Project

Written on 09 January 2024.

On 22 May 2023, Indigenous Peoples had a victory in the Lake Turkana Wind Project (LTWP) case when Kenyan Environment and Land Court in Meru declined the Review Application filed by the LTWP. Essentially, this means that the land titles in question are cancelled because the time extension requested by LTWP in 2021 was denied with the court maintaining that the LTWP deeds are “irregular and unlawful”. LTWP have now filed yet another Notice to Appeal.

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IWGIA welcomes two Indigenous members to its board

Written on 11 January 2024.

IWGIA is pleased to announce that Nauja Bianco (pictured left) and Peter Dawson (pictured right) have joined IWGIA as new board members as of 1 January 2024. 

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Creoles in Nicaragua: territorial demarcation, self-determination and resistance

Written on 08 January 2024.

BY ALEXANDRINA HENRÍQUEZ FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS

Since colonial times and slavery, the population of African origin has faced difficulties to be recognized as subjects of law. In Central America, they have gone through centuries of resistance to be accepted first as people and then as citizens of the republics. Currently, the Afro-descendant Creole community in Nicaragua is fighting for the demarcation, titling and regulation of their ancestral lands, while at the same time seeking equal conditions for their development as other Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities. Meanwhile, mining, logging and fishing concessions, and the use of the territory for megaprojects and monocultures are expanding on their lands.

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