May 17, 2012
The Indian Law Resource Center has called on the UN Permanent forum on Indigenous Issues to ensure that the World Bank implements the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
At the 11th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which is taking place this week in New York, [...]
May 16, 2012
The Salvadoran Ecological Unit (UNES – Unidad Ecológica Salvadoreña) and other social organisations in El Salvador have written to Benoît Bosquet, the coordinator of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) demanding the El Salvador’s R-PP is not approved. UNES also wrote to the Government demanding that the R-PP be withdrawn.
The letter [...]
April 19, 2012
Earlier this week, the World Bank’s Executive Directors chose a new president. For the 12th time in its history, the World Bank will have a US citizen as its president. No surprises there, then.
But the choice of Jim Yong Kim could bring some surprises at the World Bank. Mark Weisbrot of the [...]
April 6, 2012
On 8 March 2012, the World Bank announced that the Draft Indonesia Forest Investment Plan was posted on the Ministry of Forestry’s website. The 114-page document was posted in English, with a comment period of “a little over two weeks”.
The commenting process is not transparent. Comments are to be sent to an [...]
March 15, 2012
On 29 February 2012, REDD-Monitor posted a letter from Indigenous Peoples Confederation of Honduras (CONPAH) about the lack of consultation relating to the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) in Honduras.
REDD-Monitor’s post included some questions for the FCPF, which were subsequently answered by Benoît Bosquet, coordinator of the FCPF at [...]
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March 7, 2012
Last week, REDD-Monitor wrote a post titled “World Bank fails to consult with Indigenous Peoples in Honduras”. The post included a letter from the Indigenous Peoples Confederation of Honduras (CONPAH) to the State Secretary of Natural Resources and Environment, Doctor Rigoberto Cuéllar Cruz.
The post also included a series of questions for the [...]
March 1, 2012
A recent report from Friends of the Earth International takes a further look at the Australian-funded Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership. The report looks at the social and environmental effectiveness of the KFCP project and concludes that forest carbon offsets are a false solution to climate change.
The report, “In the REDD: Australia’s [...]
February 29, 2012
The Indigenous Peoples Confederation of Honduras (CONPAH) recently wrote a letter to the State Secretary of Natural Resources and Environment, Doctor Rigoberto Cuéllar Cruz, about the lack of consultation relating to the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility in Honduras.
The letter proposes that the government should withdraw of the draft Readiness-Preparation Proposal [...]
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February 28, 2012
Last year, the German Ministry for International Cooperation (BMZ) adopted a new Human Rights Policy. The new policy is mandatory and includes a requirement for free, prior and informed consent for indigenous peoples and local communities.
Germany’s human rights policy can be downloaded here (pdf file, 587.3 kB). The section of the policy [...]
February 24, 2012
Earlier this month, a group of Indonesian and international organisations wrote to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination about the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) project in Papua.
The letter provides information on the impacts of the MIFEE project on Indigenous Peoples and notes that the MIFEE [...]