Int'l Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self Determination & Liberation

15/09/2026

More than 45 participants gathered in Port Harcourt, Rivers state last August 13, 2026 for the first “Regional Dialogue on the Niger Delta Environmental Cleanup: Issues and Way Forward.” MIIDEEKOR Environmental Development Initiative (MEDI) convened civil society organizations, community leaders, women’s groups, academics, researchers and youth, for the dialogue that aims to push the region’s environmental crisis past yet another round of reports and recommendations and toward a concrete program of action.

Weeks later, the urgency of that call has sharpened. Bille, an oil-bearing community in the Niger Delta, has been on the news over a life-threatening incident. On September 3, an explosion tore through a house and burned its occupants alive. Weeks on, neither the federal government nor the oil companies operating in the area have made a public accounting of what happened or what they intend to do about it.

MEDI Team Lead Comrade Celestine AkpoBari emphasized during the dialogue, “We are not asking for charity. We are asking those who profited from our land for decades to pay for what they destroyed, and to stay accountable even after they sell their assets and leave. A company does not get to poison a river and then disappear behind a new name on a new title deed.”

For IPMSDL, these incidents are part of decades-long ledger of extraction without accountability. The Niger Delta struggle sits squarely within our global campaign “Fight For Our Future” confronting plunder of ancestral lands, fascism, rights violations and imperialist attacks that threatens communities.

Read our full article here: https://www.ipmsdl.org/news/from-dialogue-to-action-niger-delta-communities-demand-accountability-as-bille-tragedy-exposes-state-and-corporate-abandonment/

14/09/2026

Representatives of Nepal’s Indigenous Yakthung (Limbu) communities affected by the Pathivara cable car project have urged the Board of Directors of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) – the private lending arm of the World Bank Group – to question the IFC’s account of its involvement and handling of its advisory services in the controversial project.

They have raised several areas of concern following the closure of investigation into their complaint in relation to the IFC’s advisory services for the project by the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) – the accountability mechanism of the IFC – on 31 July.

In a letter to the IFC Executive Directors, the complainants, their legal counsel have stressed that although the CAO case has been closed and cannot be appealed, serious questions remain about IFC’s role in the project and its handling of information about its involvement.

🏔️ Yakthung ( ) communities affected by ’s cable car project have urged the IFC - International Finance Corporation ( ) Board of Directors to question the IFC’s involvement and handling of its advisory services in the controversial project.

📄 The letter follows the closure of investigation into the communities’ complaint by the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) ( ) - the IFC’s accountability mechanism.

IFC - the private lending arm of the World Bank Group ( ) - has stated that the Cable Car was never an IFC project or sub-project and that it had no relationship with the project’s developer or operator.

Yet IFC’s own records show that Pathivara was added to the advisory engagement with , which is owned by the Chairman of the IME Group (one of the largest Nepali conglomerates), at the company’s request. IFC subsequently carried out environmental and social screening and commissioned a technical study specifically for the Pathivara Cable Car.

The CAO appraisal also identified preliminary indications of potential harm and potential IFC non-compliance with its Access to Information Policy. The advisory project was publicly disclosed only after 670 days, despite the policy requiring disclosure within 60 days.

The complainants are now asking the IFC Board to look more closely at IFC’s account of its involvement, its disclosure practices, and the work it carried out on Pathivara.

The CAO case may be closed, but questions about IFC’s involvement, transparency and accountability remain.

🤝 AIPNEE is one of the advisors to the communities in their complaint to the CAO.

🔗 Read the full article:
https://aipnee.org/campaigns/pathivara-cable-car-affected-indigenous-limbu-communities-raise-questions-about-ifcs-handling-of-its-advisory-services-in-the-project-despite-closure-of-investigation-into/

Lahurnip Nepal Recourse

14/09/2026

2026 GLOBAL RECAP: Indigenous Peoples, Fight for a Future Free from Attacks, Plunder & Imperialist Wars!
September 14, 2026 | 9AM UTC

🇵🇭 Manila | 5:00 PM
🇰🇪 Nairobi | 12:00 PM (noon)
🇮🇳 New Delhi | 2:30 PM
🇬🇹 Guatemala City | 3:00 AM

As we close this year's International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, join us this September 9, 2026, via Facebook and YouTube Live, as we bring together actions and celebrations led by Indigenous Peoples around the world - from communities waging their calls to defend their ancestral lands to peoples resisting attacks, plunder, and wars waged by imperialist countries. Tune in and witness the resistance of Indigenous Peoples across the globe.⁩

14/09/2026

"Like other Indigenous Peoples, the Karens’ dispossession of ancestral lands will degrade their cultural identity, and their existence as a nation will fade over time. It is critical for the government of Burma to honor its obligations to UNDRIP by recognizing the inherent rights of Indigenous Karen along with other Indigenous Peoples in Burma/Myanmar and stopping its genocidal behavior."

19 years of UNDRIP, the story of Indigenous Peoples communities criminalized for defending their land, defenders red-tagged or jailed for protecting their children, and territories treated as security zones rather than ancestral homes remains an urgent challenge.

UNDRIP must be a tool for Indigenous Peoples to live under genuine peace, free from state violence, to determine their own future, and to translate commitments into meaningful change on the ground.

Look back and read 👉 https://www.ipmsdl.org/statement/indigenous-karen-peoples-and-undrip/

📸 Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)

14/09/2026

Indigenous youth across Asia came together to celebrate our culture and identity through different festive yet militant local actions to regional solidarity in the defense of our ancestral lands.

14/09/2026

UNDRIP@19 🌱

“We urgently call upon states around the globe to honor the letter and spirit of the UNDRIP. The time for rhetoric has passed; it is now imperative that concrete actions are taken to rectify the ongoing injustices suffered by Indigenous Peoples. States, as duty bearers, carry the weighty responsibility of ensuring the protection, respect, and advancement of the rights and well-being of Indigenous Peoples.”

IPMSDL look back on our message last 2023 and continue today to highlight on this year’s 19th anniversary of UNDRIP’s ratification, that Indigenous Peoples criminalization, attacks on land, life, territory through militarization and extractivism, erosion of right to self-determination and ways of life is reaching an all time high.

As we look towards the 20th year of UNDRIP, let us confront the persistent challenges that we endure, and may these serve as a clarion call for substantive reforms and progress. Only together in solidarity and action we can forge a world in which Indigenous Peoples fully enjoy their rights, liberated from discrimination and oppression!

https://www.ipmsdl.org/statement/un-declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples-undrip-anniversary-urgent-call-for-action/

14/09/2026

❤️We are more than grateful for the meaningful exchange between the FIMI AYNI Asia and the Pacific team and our partners on the ground KATRIBU Kalipunan ng Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas , Sandugo Alliance , Bai Indigenous Women's Network , Katribu Youth , Asia Young Indigenous Peoples Network last July.

We are happy to take important steps in deepening our shared understanding of the situation, challenges, and the road ahead for advancing the work and leadership of indigenous women in line with FIMI AYNI’s commitment to strengthening the voices, rights, and self-determined development of indigenous women across different communities and territories.

Excited for more partnerships and solidarity in the way!

13/09/2026

IPMSDL stood alongside 60 delegates from Brazilian civil society organizations, institutions, social movements & delegations from the Philippines, Colombia & South Africa at the CBDDH’s 8th National Meeting in Brasília last March. 🇧🇷

The gathering was an immense learning exchange space from stories of criminalization, militarized territories & state violence, to a shared Political Letter denouncing the rise of the far right, the weaponization of disinformation, and the assault on multilateralism threatening human rights defenders across the globe.

From Bahia’s Indigenous leaders to Rio’s frontline communities, from the Amazon’s Tapajós territories to the shrinking civic space in our own Asia, Latin America and Africa, the pattern is unmistakable, and so is the resistance.

📸 CBDDH, Tatiana Lima, CIMI, Adi Spezia, IPMSDL

Read the full story 👉 ipmsdl.org

13/09/2026

🚶‍♀️✊ Solidarity with the Warmis del Kollasuyu!

For over a month, Indigenous women walked ~2,000km from Jujuy to Buenos Aires to demand an end to mining contamination poisoning the Laguna de Pozuelos, and to stop the evictions threatening their ancestral territories.

They carried their communities' cry to Congress. They were met with police instead of answers.

From the Kollasuyu to every Indigenous territory under attack by extractivism, we say our water, land, and life are not for profit and plunder!

Let us stand with the Warmis and all Indigenous women defenders on the frontlines of resistance!