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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."
Earth’s guardians are being murdered for keeping our forests alive.

More than 2,000 have been killed in recent years for standing up to ranchers, loggers and miners invading their land for profit.

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

World leaders can help stop these senseless attacks by ensuring Indigenous Peoples have legal title to their lands so they can protect our planet’s vital ecosystems without being murdered.

Add your name to stand with the Earth defenders and we’ll deliver our voices straight to world leaders at a key summit this month in Colombia!



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

Jessica Pacheco
Indigenous technical expert of Sierra de Santa Marta and member of the Kankuama people of Colombia

Olivia Bisa
President of Chapra Indigenous Nation

Ingry Paola Mojanajinsoy
President of Acimvip, Putumayo, Colombia

Nemonte Nenquimo
Goldman Prize winner and first female president of the Waorani people of Pastaza, Ecuador

Amazon Watch

Amazon Frontlines

Alianza Ceibo

COIAB

Fundación Barranquilla

Cuencas Sagradas

Colombian Youth Biodiversity

Land is Life

Earth Rights International

Nacionalidad Waorani del Ecuador

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