INDIGENOUS PEOPLES CAMPAIGNS AND RESPONSES TO COVID-19
ASIA - DTP partner Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) has compiled a list of lessons learnt on Covid-19 from the Indigenous communities in Asia. The document covers the use and misuse of information, the means to community solidarity and preventive and protective measures. READ MORE
NEPAL - Indigenous communities affected by the Tanahu Hydropower Project in Nepal file complaints with the Asian Development Bank and European Investment Bank. “The project has and will cause direct and material harm to our ancestral land, our livelihoods, and traditional practices … and we will be displaced once the farming land is full of water.” MYANMAR - The Rawang ethnic minority in north-east Myanmar is prepared to enter into negotiations with the government but only on the basis of community collaboration. READ MORE
BANGLADESH - Almost 1000 Jumma workers who were trying to return to the Chittagong Hills Tracts were assaulted by the police who prevented them from passing. Unable to work and now homeless, these people are at even greater risk from the coronavirus. READ MORE
INDIA - Thousands of Indigenous migrant workers have been stranded without home and food in the metropolis while there are reports of starvation among Indigenous communities in the rural areas. READ MORE
PHILIPPINES - Covid-19 must not be used to suppress freedom of assembly of Indigenous communities say UN Special Rapporteurs. READ MORE
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