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FIGHT WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES FOR LIFE ON EARTH
FIGHT WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
FOR LIFE ON EARTH
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To the President of COP16 Susana Muhamad, all world leaders and Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity :

We call on you to ensure that the land rights of Indigenous Peoples and of local communities are 100% recognised by 2025 in multilateral agreements as well as in national legal frameworks and land tenure processes. Formally recognising their territories is necessary to respect their rights and ensure their survival. It is also one of the most effective ways to address the twin crisis of biodiversity and climate change.
Call on world leaders to protect our vanishing biodiversity by ensuring Indigenous land rights:
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To the President of COP16 Susana Muhamad, all world leaders and Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity :
"We call on you to ensure that the land rights of Indigenous Peoples and of local communities are 100% recognised by 2025 in multilateral agreements as well as in national legal frameworks and land tenure processes. Formally recognising their territories is necessary to respect their rights and ensure their survival. It is also one of the most effective ways to address the twin crisis of biodiversity and climate change."
The Earth’s greatest protectors are being murdered.

Nauí Brito de Jesus of the Pataxó people is one of more than 2,000 Indigenous defenders killed in recent years for standing up to ranchers, loggers and miners invading their land for profit.

This is a tragedy for us all. Indigenous Peoples keep our forests and rivers alive - but they can’t keep doing it if their lives and lands are under attack. Many Indigenous peoples don’t even legally own the lands that they have died for!

World leaders can help stop this cycle of death and destruction in just weeks at a critical summit in Colombia, by formally recognizing Indigenous territories as an essential part of the global plan to protect biodiversity.

Add your name to stand with the Earth defenders and demand global leaders commit to safeguarding Indigenous lands that heal our planet. When we are one million, we’ll deliver our voices straight to world leaders at the summit!

This campaign is supported by the following organisations and signed by the following individuals

OPIAC
National Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the Colombian Amazon


Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Chair of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and member of the Mbororo people of Chad

Txai Suruí
Indigenous leader and activist of the Paiter Suruí people of Brazil

Célia Xakriabá
First Indigenous woman elected Federal Deputy of Minas Gerais state and member of the Xakriabá people of Brazil

Olivia Bisa
President of
Chapra Indigenous
Nation

Amazon Watch

Amazon Frontlines

Alianza Ceibo

COIAB

Fundación Barranquilla

Cuencas Sagradas

Colombian Youth Biodiversity

Land is Life
Image credit: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters. The image above does not depict Nauí Jesus de Brito.

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