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Through Careful Management, Indigenous People Have Shaped Asian Rainforests...
Paleoecologists have found sparse but strong evidence showing that humans in Southeast Asia have been actively managing forests for over ten thousand years. Read more below to find out how these...
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Mega-Dams Create Economic Disaster Says Top Study
A recent study by Oxford University has found that mega-dams, like those that are being built and planned in Borneo right now, do not only negatively impact the environment and human rights but they...
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Malaysia Rejects Indigenous Rights at the UN
The recent suggestion by the United Nations that the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights should be allowed to visit the county in order to evaluate the treatment of the indigenous Orang Ulu has...
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New Web Tool Aims to Help Indigenous Groups Protect Forests and Navigate REDD+
A new online tool called ForestDefender aims to help indigenous people understand and implement their rights in regard to forests. The database brings together vast amounts of legal information—both...
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Indigenous Communities Demand Forest Rights, Blame Land Grabs for Failure to...
In the Palangkaraya Declaration on Deforestation and the Rights of Forest Peoples, indigenous and forest-dependent peoples from Asia, Africa and Latin America have called for increased recognition of...
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Grocery Giant Commits to Zero-Deforestation Policy for Palm Oil Sourcing
Safeway, the second biggest U.S. grocery chain, has become the latest company to establish a policy that excludes deforestation-linked palm oil from its products. Safeway will ask its suppliers to...
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Save Sarawak’s Rivers Network (SAVE Rivers) Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SAVE RIVERS would like to thank the Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem for paying attention to the plight indigenous community who are protesting against the construction of mega...
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Sarawak’s Land Grab Laws Must Go!
Now that Taib is no longer Chief Minister of Sarawak, the state needs to get rid of his unconstitutional land grab laws. Read more below about how Taib unconstitutionally took land from the indigenous...
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Sarawak Government Suffers 10 Defeats in NCR Land Cases
The indigenous people of Sarawak have won more native customary rights (NCR) land cases! We are also thrilled to tell you that the Borneo Project’s Legal Aid Fund helped support some of these cases....
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U.S State Department Human Rights Report 2013: Malaysia’s Indigenous Peoples
The rights of indigenous people of Malaysia have been consistantly neglected and even suppressed by the Malaysian government. Read more below about different abuses to indigenous rights in an excerpt...
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