Climate policy is never only about science or economics. For Indigenous Peoples, it is also about who governs the land, whose knowledge shapes the rules, and who has the authority to decide the future of their communities.

At a side event held during the twenty-eighth meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-28) in Nairobi, findings from an IUCN-led scoping study carried out in collaboration with the University of Arizona’s Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program (IPLP) highlighted a critical issue for the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework: ensuring effective access to grievance, redress and remedy for Indigenous Peoples affected by conservation initiatives.

The Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas Initiative is taking part in the twenty-eighth meeting of the CBD's Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-28), held in Nairobi from 27 July to 1 August 2026, and has prepared a technical note of suggested text amendments on grievance and redress mechanisms.

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.