Date of publication
July 10, 2020
Document Reference #

A/HRC/45/34/Add.1

Publishing Organization
Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Document Type
Country Visit Report
Country
Congo
Original Document
Relevant paragraphs, or extracts

Conclusions and recommendations

B. Recommendations

108. The Special Rapporteur makes the following additional recommendations:

  • (f) Conservationists and international donors concerned with the  environment and the preservation of biodiversity should promote and fund  indigenous-led conservation initiatives while focusing restrictive measures on threats  to ecosystems coming from non-indigenous sources, including criminal poaching  networks, corruption and unsustainable forest exploitation; 
  • (g) In this respect, the Special Rapporteur invites the Government, its United Nations supporting partners and conservation organizations in the Congo to  consider the recommendations included in her report on conservation.  She  recommends that conservation organizations adopt human rights policies and monitor the application of human rights-based conservation programmes, and that culturally appropriate and independent complaints mechanisms be made available for  indigenous peoples to voice their concerns over conservation initiatives and support initiatives for indigenous peoples’ right to remedy in cases when conservation activities have negatively affected their rights;