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International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)

IWGIA is a global human rights organisation dedicated to promoting and defending Indigenous Peoples’ rights.
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We are an international human rights organisation defending indigenous peoples’ rights. Since 1968, we have documented the fight for indigenous peoples’ rights. We are working through a global network of indigenous peoples’ organisations.

17/06/2026

🌍 Today, we honour Indigenous Peoples—and especially Pastoralist Indigenous Peoples—whose stewardship keeps our planet’s rangelands alive.

These vast ecosystems cover more than half of Earth’s land surface and play a critical role in:
🌱 carbon storage
🌿 biodiversity
🌾 food security
🌍 climate resilience

For generations, Pastoralist Indigenous Peoples have sustained these landscapes through deep knowledge, governance systems, and a profound connection to their territories—actively preventing desertification and land degradation.

Yet, their rights are under growing threat.

From land grabbing and forced evictions to restrictions on mobility and extractive industries, many Pastoralist Indigenous Peoples are being pushed off the lands they have long protected.

👉 Protecting rangelands starts with protecting Indigenous rights—especially rights to land, territories, and resources.

As the UN Year on Rangelands and Pastoralists unfolds, and with COP17 of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification approaching, the message is clear: Pastoralist Indigenous Peoples' rights must be recognized, respected and protected.

16/06/2026

🌿In Bonn for the UNFCCC June Climate Meetings today?

Join us and our partners for our side event on Equitable Knowledge Partnerships with Indigenous Peoples for Climate Action within LCIPP and GST.

🎉We will also be launching the “Policy Guide for the Ethical and Equitable Engagement of Indigenous Peoples and their Knowledge Systems within the UNFCCC.”

🗓️16 June, Tuesday
🕒15:00-16:15 CEST
📍Room: Kaminzimmer
🗨️ 🇬🇧 ENG / 🇪🇸 ESP / 🇵🇹 PORT

This session brings together Indigenous Peoples from the seven UN socio-cultural regions, science funders, LCIPP FWG members, Parties, as well as researchers, practitioners and policymakers engaged in knowledge co-production, to explore how to:
▪️ Embed rights-based, ethical and equitable engagement with Indigenous Knowledge Systems in climate governance
▪️Strengthen the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP) and the Global Stocktake (GST)
▪️Move from symbolic inclusion towards shared decision-making and co-governance in implementing the Paris Agreement

Organised by: CIPRED, AFN, Belmont Forum, University of Geneva, Avina Foundation with the support of IWGIA

14/06/2026

🤝Indigenous Peoples must be meaningfully included in climate decision-making.

In the Philippines, Indigenous Peoples remain largely absent from key climate decision-making spaces — despite the fact that their territories are central to conservation, biodiversity and climate action.

A new article from Dialogue Earth points to a gap between principle and practice.

And IWGIA’s analysis of 195 climate pledges shows that this gap is global: recognition of Indigenous Peoples is growing, but real participation, rights protection and decision-making power are still too often missing.

Indigenous Peoples are not simply stakeholders in climate action. They are rights-holders, knowledge holders and guardians of territories that are vital to climate resilience.

Climate action must move from recognition to meaningful inclusion.

Read more via 🔗 https://dialogue.earth/en/climate/the-philippines-is-failing-to-include-indigenous-people-in-climate-decision-making/

13/06/2026

Har vi fået den grønneste regering? Så skal Danmark også tage globalt klimaansvar. 📢

Sammen med 14 andre organisationer opfordrer IWGIA regeringen til at sætte klima, rettigheder og retfærdighed i centrum for dansk udenrigs- og udviklingspolitik — og til at støtte oprindelige folks stemmer i FN’s klimaforhandlinger.

Oprindelige folk beskytter nogle af verdens mest biodiverse områder og står samtidig i frontlinjen af klimakrisen. Derfor er deres rettigheder og viden afgørende, hvis den globale klimaindsats skal være både effektiv og retfærdig.

Danmark skal og bør være en tydelig stemme for en klimaindsats, der bygger på menneskerettigheder og samarbejde med oprindelige folk.

Læs det fælles opråb i Altinget 🔗 https://www.altinget.dk/klima/artikel/13-aktoerer-ny-regering-ny-mulighed-danmark-skal-genstarte-sit-klimadiplomatiske-lederskab

12/06/2026

Where is Kalpana Chakma?

Thirty years ago, Indigenous leader Kalpana Chakma was forcibly taken from her home in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh.

On 12 June 1996, the 23-year-old Organizing Secretary of the Hill Women’s Federation was abducted - allegedly by members of the security forces. Her brothers were also seized that night, but managed to escape. They later identified alleged perpetrators.

Despite of this no one has been held accountable. Three decades later, Kalpana’s fate and whereabouts are still unknown.

Her case remains one of the most emblematic examples of impunity in Bangladesh — and of the systemic protection too often afforded to alleged perpetrators when they are members of the military.

On the 30th anniversary of her enforced disappearance, IWGIA stands in solidarity with Land is Life, Hill Women's Federation, Network Of Indigenous Women In Asia - NIWA and Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact, calling on the Government of Bangladesh to ensure an independent investigation and accountability for those responsible.

Until truth and justice are secured, we will continue to ask:

Where is Kalpana Chakma?

Read our statement here 🔗 https://iwgia.org/en/news/6164-statement-30th-anniversary-enforced-disappearance-indigenous-woman-leader-kalpana-chakma-cht.html

12/06/2026

See you at London Climate Action Week? 🌿

Join us for the event: A Just Transition Beyond Extraction: Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Climate Action

As climate ambition turns into implementation, Indigenous Peoples, funders, and allies will come together to discuss how the energy transition can be rooted in rights, accountability, and territorial protection — not extraction.

📅 Tuesday, 23 June 2026
🕑 14:00 – 15:30 (BST)
📍 St Pancras & Somers Town Living Centre, 2 Ossulston Street, London, NW1 1DF

⚠️ Limited spots! Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfuoh0utZcft3mZ2D1EPEavLmDSEeIncks8VhA-yoQ0yQaCoQ/viewform

⚡ Join us at London Climate Action Week for a critical conversation.

SIRGE Coalition Cultural Survival SOMO Business and Human Rights Centre Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact

11/06/2026

Young Indigenous defenders are leading the way ✊

IWGIA congratulates Kim “Enkoryaw” Falyao, the young activist from Bai Indigenous Women Network. in the Philippines who has been recognised as an Outstanding Young Human Rights Defender in Amnesty International Philippines’ Ignite Awards for Human Rights.

This recognition honours the courage, leadership and commitment of young people defending Indigenous Peoples’ rights, ancestral lands and communities.

Congratulations from IWGIA. 💙

11/06/2026

Join us today for our preparation training for 🌾

📅 Thursday, June 11
🕓 4:00–6:00 p.m. Geneva / 9:00–11:00 a.m. Colombia.
🔗 Register here to join via Zoom: https://bit.ly/4vx5fJG
🗨️ Simultaneous interpretation will be available in 🇬🇧 English, 🇪🇸 Spanish, 🇫🇷 French, 🇷🇺 Russian and 🇵🇹 Portuguese

The UNCCD speaks directly to the realities faced by . Desertification, land degradation, and drought are not abstract phenomena; they are active threats to the territories, ecosystems, and living heritage that Indigenous Peoples have protected for generations through their traditional knowledge and deep relationship with Mother Earth.

In this sense, Indigenous Peoples are not merely stakeholders in this process; they are its most essential voices.

COP17 also coincides with the UN International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists, opening a critical window to advance the protection of rangelands and center the rights and needs of pastoral and Indigenous Peoples whose livelihoods and cultures are rooted in these landscapes.

Their active engagement at COP17 is not a question of representation; it is a question of global responsibility.

🤝 International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (IIPFCCD), IMPACT_KENYA, AFPAT-Chad, UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples Docip Nia Tero

11/06/2026

Will you be at London Climate Action Week 2026?

Together with Wellcome Trust, University of British Columbia and Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact, IWGIA is co-organising an important conversation on Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge Systems in global climate science and policy during London Climate Action Week.

Indigenous Peoples are frontline climate leaders.

Their knowledge, sciences and territorial governance are essential to understanding and responding to the climate crisis — yet they remain structurally marginalised in key global climate spaces such as the IPCC and UNFCCC.

The event will bring together Indigenous experts, climate scientists, policymakers and institutional representatives to discuss what ethical and equitable engagement must look like in practice.

Come and join us:
📅 Monday, 22 June 2026
🕑 14:00–15:30 UK time
📍 Wellcome Trust, The Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE

The event is can be attended in person and online.

Register to join us in person: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ethical-and-equitable-engagement-with-indigenous-peoples-tickets-1991348312408

Interested in joining online? Contact [email protected], and the link to join online with be sent.

10/06/2026

(Danish below) Denmark often talks about rights. But how do we ensure them in practice? 💡

There is no doubt that Greenland has received a lot of media attention over the past year, and its place in the Danish Realm has been emphasised almost just as often. But what does it actually take for Inuit rights to not only be recognised in words and declarations, but also felt in reality?

We will discuss this together with Institut for Menneskerettigheder at Folkemødet:

🕧 13 June, 13:00–13:45
📍 Danish Institute for Human Rights, F17
🏋️‍♀️ Malu Rosing, IWGIA’s Advisor on the Arctic

See you there!

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Danmark taler gerne om rettigheder. Men hvordan sikrer vi dem i praksis? 💡

Der er ingen tvivl om, at Grønland har fyldt meget i medierne det sidste år, og landets plads i det danske Rigsfællesskab er blevet understreget næsten lige så ofte. Men hvad skal der egentlig til for, at inuitternes rettigheder ikke blot bliver anerkendt med ord og erklæringer, men også mærkes i virkeligheden?

Det taler vi om sammen med Institut for Menneskerettigheder på Folkemødet:

⏰13. juni, 13.00-13.45
📍Institut for Menneskerettigheder, F17
🏋️ Malu Rosing, IWGIAs rådgiver for Arktis

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