The IPLP Indigenous Rights and Protected Areas Initiative in the strongest terms the arrest and continued detention of Pranab Doley, Indigenous human rights defender of the Mising people, convener of the Greater Kaziranga Land and Human Rights Protection Committee (GKLHRPC), and a member of the Advisory Council of this Initiative. We call for his immediate and unconditional release and for the withdrawal of all charges arising from the peaceful exercise of his rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, and to defend the collective rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Join a timely discussion on Orca Personhood, Indigenous legal orders, UNDRIP, international law, legal personhood, guardianship, Canadian law, and next steps for recognition and implementation.

Reports Fail to Comply with International Indigenous Rights Law, Replicate Disputed 2019 Findings, and Raise Serious Conflict of Interest Concerns

Regents Professor, Robert Williams, Jr. warns that the 30 x 30 project is being used to displace Indigenous peoples in many communities. In the name of rewilding nature and creating “protected areas,” millions are at risk.

Implementing Article 32 of UNDRIP: Indigenous Self-Determination Through Indigenous-Led Initiatives, Co-Management and Co-Stewardship of Natural Resources, and the Emerging Rights of Nature Framework

A World Bank-financed tourism project, REGROW, doubled the size of Ruaha National Park and funded paramilitary rangers responsible for extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, violence and human rights abuses, the destruction of livelihoods and forced evictions.

A free, fully online track for youth (16–35) on the human rights impacts of conservation—and Indigenous-led alternatives rooted in self-determination and Indigenous knowledge.

A new letter from the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) puts a spotlight on a recurring rights crisis in conservation: when “protected areas” are implemented through relocation and restrictions that sideline the people who have lived on—and cared for—those lands for generations.

IPLP recently began a partnership with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to examine patterns of human rights violations in protected areas.