Rights and Resources Initiative

10/17/2026

SIDE EVENT

🌿 Racismo ambiental y biodiversidad: desafíos y vías para la implementación de la Decisión 16/6.
Pueblos afrodescendientes, territorios, conocimientos tradicionales, justicia ambiental.

La Decisión 16/6 del CDB reconoció el aporte de los afrodescendientes a la conservación de la biodiversidad. Ahora el reto es convertir ese reconocimiento en territorio seguro, participación, financiación y políticas concretas.

Te invitamos al evento paralelo de CITAFRO y el Ministério da Igualdade Racial de Brasil en la .

📅 21 de octubre
🕕 18:15 Ereván | 9:15 a. m. Bogotá | 11:15 a. m. Brasilia
📍 Sala del Caucus de Mujeres Shaki-Marie Khan

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🌿 Racismo ambiental e biodiversidade: desafios e caminhos para a implementação da Decisão 16/6.
Povos afrodescendentes, territórios, conhecimentos tradicionais, justiça ambiental.

A Decisão 16/6 da CDB reconheceu a contribuição dos afrodescendentes para a conservação da biodiversidade. Agora, o desafio é transformar esse reconhecimento em território seguro, participação, financiamento e políticas concretas.

Convidamos você para o evento paralelo da CITAFRO e do Ministério da Igualdade Racial do Brasil na COP17.

📅 21 de outubro
🕕 18h15 Erevan | 9h15 Bogotá | 11h15 Brasília
📍 Sala do Caucus de Mulheres Shaki-Marie Khan

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🌿 Environmental racism and biodiversity: challenges and pathways for the implementation of Decision 16/6.
Afro-descendant peoples, territories, traditional knowledge, environmental justice.

C*D Decision 16/6 recognized the contribution of Afro-descendants to biodiversity conservation. The challenge now is to turn that recognition into secure territories, participation, financing and concrete policies.

Join the side event hosted by CITAFRO and Brazil's M’nistry of Racial Equality (Ministério da Igualdade Racial) at COP17.

📅 October 21
🕕 18:15 Yerevan | 9:15 a.m. Bogotá | 11:15 a.m. Brasília
📍 Shaki-Marie Khan Women’s Caucus Room

WeAreAfroDescendantPeoples EnvironmentalJustice COP17 CITAFRO

10/16/2026

The Cali Fund is not working yet.

The Cali Fund should ensure that at least half of the fund’s proceeds are made accessible to Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples, and Local Communities, and the pursuit of their self-determined priorities through direct, understandable, and usable access pathways.

Want to push back against these rollbacks?

Join over 100 organizations in signing our Open Letter to negotiators: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdVJBWbIvaLtMSqnrWMgSA3NirbLRM3WqCTZJLXzfOqCxpHhw/viewform.


COP17 Armenia United Nations Biodiversity

10/15/2026

While biodiversity disappears and the climate crisis advances, the C*D COP is at risk of rolling back.

Ahead of COP17 in Yerevan, we're seeing proposals that risk the autonomy and self-governance of the management of the conservation areas and the inclusion of the Indigenous and Traditional Territories under the OMECs category.

The Voluntary Guidelines need to protect us instead to threaten the world’s biodiversity and the communities who steward it.

Swipe through to see what's at risk.

Want to push back against these Rollbacks?

Sign our Open Letter to negotiators in the link in bio/ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdVJBWbIvaLtMSqnrWMgSA3NirbLRM3WqCTZJLXzfOqCxpHhw/viewform.










COP17 Armenia United Nations Biodiversity

10/14/2026

🌱 Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples are proven to be the best stewards of nature and biodiversity.

As governments prepare for C*D COP17, we are calling for action on three critical priorities:

✅ Protect and strengthen rights-based conservation: by recognizing Indigenous and Traditional Territories (ITTs) as distinct conservation pathways.

✅ Ensure rights-based biodiversity finance: by advancing equitable benefit-sharing and direct funding for rightsholders.

✅ Guarantee meaningful participation and recognition: by strengthening the role of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, Afro-descendant Peoples, and women in biodiversity decision-making and implementation.

And one more essential principle:

🚫 No rollbacks. C*D COP17 must strengthen, not weaken, the rights, participation, and contributions of rightsholders in protecting biodiversity.

The decisions made in Armenia must move the needle toward genuine rights-based implementation.

Join our road to C*D COP17.

10/13/2026

Ahead of COP17 in Yerevan, we are seeing signs that rights already agreed in the Convention could be weakened.

Rollbacks rarely announce themselves. They arrive as technical drafting changes that carry profound legal and territorial consequences for the Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples and local communities who steward the world's ecosystems.

What's at stake is not only new ambition but whether Parties will keep the hard-won rights and commitments that were already agreed.

Join the Campaign at https://rightsandresources.org/campaign/stop-the-rollbacks/

COP17 Armenia United Nations Biodiversity

10/09/2026

For centuries, Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples and local communities have stewarded the world's ecosystems.

For decades, they have fought biodiversity loss, climate change and land degradation.

For years, they have slowly been recognized as the best solution holders in that fight.

Now that recognition is under threat.

As governments prepare to meet in Armenia for C*D COP17, we are calling on Parties to move forward, not backwards.

2026 can't be the year we give up. Armenia can't be where we yield.

Join the campaign at www.rightsandresources.org/campaign/stop-the-rollbacks .

COP17 Armenia United Nations Biodiversity

10/08/2026

Looking for practical ways to strengthen your support for women’s land rights? Start here.

The new Global Women’s Land Rights Protocol is a practical guide for funders supporting the land and resource rights of Indigenous, Afro-descendant, Pastoralist, and Local Community women.

Published by RRI and the Women’s Land Rights Initiative, the Protocol translates evidence and rightsholder perspectives into concrete guidance for funders—from supporting women’s leadership and participation in decision-making to strengthening more responsive and effective funding approaches.

For funders committed to advancing gender justice and securing collective land rights, the Protocol offers a practical starting point for turning commitments into action.

Explore the Global Women’s Land Rights Protocol: https://rightsandresources.org/publication/womens-land-rights-protocol/

10/07/2026

🌿 C*D COP17 is coming soon!

From October 19-30, 2026, governments, Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples, local communities, civil society, and other actors will gather in Yerevan, Armenia for the C*D COP17.

At a time when biodiversity loss continues at an alarming pace, COP17 will mark the first global review of progress toward the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, the world's roadmap to halt and reverse nature loss.

COP17 is an opportunity to advance rights-based conservation, strengthen support for community-led conservation, promote women-led action, and ensure that rightsholders are recognized as leaders in biodiversity governance.

The decisions made in Yerevan will help determine whether countries move from symbolic recognition to meaningful implementation, while also protecting hard-won commitments on rights, participation, and equitable benefit-sharing.

Follow RRI's C*D COP17 journey:

🔗 www.rightsandresources.org/cbd-cop17

COP17 Armenia United Nations Biodiversity

10/01/2026

10/01/2026

🌊🗺️ Esta es la programación del lanzamiento del Sistema de Información Geográfica sobre pueblos afrodescendientes en América Latina y el Gran Caribe.

Territorios, maritorios, biodiversidad y cambio climático. Porque lo que no se mapea, no se reconoce.

🗓️ Viernes 2 de octubre de 2026
⏰ 9:00 h Colombia – Ecuador
10:00 h Rep. Dominicana
11:00 h Brasil – Uruguay

📺 En vivo por YouTube: Coalición Internacional de Territorios Pueblos Afrodescendientes

✍🏾Inscríbete con el enlace en la bio.
Desliza para ver la agenda 👉🏾