Expert Testimony. IACHR. Case of Kaliña and Lokono Peoples vs Surinam
Expert Testimony of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR)on the Case of Kaliña and Lokono Peoples vs. the Government of Surinam; Presented on 3 Feb. 2015, Costa Rica.
Object: international regulations and policy on protected areas and on the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in relation to the rights of indigenous peoples, included in the Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as the relation to protected areas established in the territory of the alleged victims.
UNSRRIP Presentation to the WCIP Interactive Dialogue
Presentation of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, to the WCIP Interactive Dialogue. June 18, 2014, UN Headquarters New York.
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COP18: Forests are homes and habitats, not just carbon sinks
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz , Tebtebba
COP18 (29/11/12) – Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Executive Director of Tebtebba and a Philippine negotiator, explains that this COP must agree how REDD+ is financed and how best it is implemented.
Tauli-Corpuz explains that she is co-chairing a working group under SBSTA on how to create national forest monitoring systems, track the emission reductions that forests are responsible for and how to implement the REDD+ safeguards agreed in Cancun.
Tauli-Corpuz explains there is a division between governments only willing to pay for carbon emission reductions and developing countries that are keen for biodiversity and poverty reduction to be included in the aims of REDD+ programmes.
Tauli-Corpuz emphasises that REDD+ must safeguard the rights and cultural history of indigenous peoples. She explains that indigenous peoples are concerned that the view of forests as little more than ‘carbon sinks’ could lead to the displacement of and the undermining of the livelihoods of indigenous peoples.
COP19: Victoria Tauli-Corpuz on the importance of having indigenous peoples at these talks
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz , Tebtebba,Indigenous People's International Centre for Policy Research and Education
COP19 (20/11/13) – Victoria Tauli-Corpuz the Executive Director of the Tebtebba, the Indigenous People’s International Centre for Policy Research and Education talks about the importance of having indigenous people at these talks.
She talks about the role of indigenous people within these talks, particularly the negotiations of forests. A large proportion of the worlds tropical forests are in the territory on indigenous people. Indigioues people should be involved in any process that is making decisiosn about their land.
At the talks indigenous people engage in all levels of decision making. Trauli-Corpuz is part of the Philippine delegation whilst some of her other partners come with NGOs to put pressure on their governments from a civil society seat.
Info Clip: The Crucial Role of Indigenous Peoples in Managing Forests
The world's remaining forests are found in indigenous territories. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz discusses the crucial role that indigenous peoples play in ensuring that forests are conserved, sustainably used and managed.
Produced by Tebtebba, August 2012.
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