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Dana Declarationcon
Nov 19, 20248 min read
UNDP Side-Event on the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples on Mobile Indigenous Peoples
Authors: Dawn Chatty, Ariell Ahearn, Frederick Ole Ikayo, Elaine Porokwa, Seánna Howard On 14 October 2024, an event was held at the...
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Dana Declarationcon
Nov 6, 20242 min read
Key Reflections on the UN Report on Mobile Indigenous Peoples
Key Reflections on the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on Mobile Indigenous Peoples. A/79/160. ...
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Sina Maghami Nick
May 3, 20241 min read
Live Recording of Dana +20 Side Event Advocating for the Visibility, Rights, and Self-Determination of Mobile Indigenous Peoples: The Dana +20 Manifesto
The Dana+20 Manifesto of Mobile Peoples (2022) was disseminated through a side event to support the UN Special Rapporteur's report on the...
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Dawn Chatty
May 1, 20246 min read
Dana +20 Side Event at the 23rd United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)
The  Twenty-Third  United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) held in New York between 15 and 25 April was special. It...
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Janepicha Cheva-Isarakul and Christoph Sperfeldt
Apr 18, 20234 min read
Mobile Maritime Peoples & Sedentary Citizenship: the case of the Moken in Thailand
Captions: Moken people arrive on shore (credit: authors) ‘We used to have lots of space. Each family to their own. We are not used to...
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Cory Rodgers
Feb 7, 20234 min read
Indigenous and Mobile Peoples Rights at the COP15
In December 2022, hundreds of representatives from Indigenous communities travelled to Tiohti:áke (Montreal) to make their voices heard...
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Dawn Chatty
Dec 30, 20224 min read
The Dana +20 Manifesto: what were its roots?
The Dana +20 Manifesto is a celebration, a reaffirmation and, in some important ways, a re-direction of the 2002 Declaration on Mobile...
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Dana Declarationcon
Sep 5, 20222 min read
Dana+20 Workshop
On Sep. 7, 2022, Her Royal Highness, Princess Basma Bint Talal of Jordan, opened a four day workshop conference at Wadi Dana Nature Reserve.
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Dana Declarationcon
Aug 24, 20221 min read
The establishment of an international 'learning group' on poverty conservation linkages
November 2004 We are pleased to the announce the establishment of an international 'learning group' on poverty conservation linkages....
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Dana Declarationcon
Jun 20, 20123 min read
Indigenous peoples insist on rights-based approaches & respect for traditional knowledge in Rio+20
Indigenous peoples from all over the world have come together at the Rio+20 global summit to put forward their own sustainable solutions.
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communications7465
Jun 18, 20127 min read
Forced Displacement of Indigenous Pastoral Communities in Ethiopia
The Ethiopian government is forcibly displacing indigenous pastoral communities in Ethiopia to make way for state-run sugar plantations
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communications7465
Jun 5, 20123 min read
China Plans to End Nomadic Life
A U.S.-based rights group has hit out at plans by the Chinese government to force three ethnic minority groups to abandon nomadic lifestyles
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communications7465
Oct 18, 20113 min read
The Matching Game: More on Protected Area Effectiveness
A metastudy shows how most peer-reviewed case studies have found community-managed forests to disappear less rapidly than protected forests.
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communications7465
Mar 10, 20103 min read
What the Sami people can teach us about adapting to climate change
As global warming and habitat degradation accelerates, people indigenous to the Arctic circle say they have much to teach the world
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communications7465
Mar 1, 20101 min read
Transhumance for Biodiversity in the southern flank of the High Atlas
A project funded by GEF/UNDP focuses on conserving biodiversity in the context of pastoralist communities and grazing-dependent ecosystems.
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communications7465
Feb 4, 20104 min read
Kenya: Landmark Ruling on Indigenous Land Rights
African Human Rights Commission Condemns Expulsion of Endorois People for Tourism Development
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communications7465
Jan 1, 20102 min read
Land Restitution Programme for the Khomani San
2010 Under South Africa's land restitution programme, the Khomani San had land in the Kglagadi Transfrontier Park returned to them in...
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communications7465
Apr 20, 20081 min read
Mobile Indigenous Peoples Participation at the 7th Session of the UNPFII
21 April - 2 May 2008, New York The Standing Committee of the Dana Declaration on Mobile Peoples and Conservation and the Secretariat of...
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communications7465
Sep 8, 20071 min read
The Segovia Declaration
8 - 25 September 2007 From 8 to15 September 2007 nearly 200 representatives and delegates of pastoralists and some professionals met in...
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communications7465
May 14, 20071 min read
Mobile Peoples Participation at the UNPFII - Side events
May 15 - 26 2006, New York he United Nations Secretariat for the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues invited the Standing Committee of...
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