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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetIndigenous Peoples in the Asia-Pacific region
Factsheet on Indigenous Women for Asia and the Pacific
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No results found.The factsheet gives a brief overview of indigenous peoples in the Asia and the Pacific region, which is home to the largest number of indigenous people with 70 percent of the 370 million original inhabitants worldwide. They share a strong connection to their lands and have developed a rich body of traditional knowledge on agro biodiversity and preservation of endangered seeds that enriches all. However, across the Asia Pacific indigenous peoples are among the most vulnerable and marginalized peoples. Recent estimates indicate that indigenous peoples make up approximately 5 percent of the global population and they comprise about 15 percent of the global extreme poor. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has long realized that in order to achieve its mandate of eradicating food and nutrition insecurity and poverty through sustainable agricultural development and natural resource management, development efforts must include farmers, fisherfolks and forest dependent people, including indigenous peoples, as key actors and partners. Indigenous peoples in the region include tribal peoples, hill tribes, aboriginal people and ethnic minorities. Irrespective of their legal status or the way in which countries refer to them, many indigenous peoples of Asia, experience non-recognition of their cultural identity. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetLand tenure in Asia and the Pacific
Human rights
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No results found.Human rights law offers a framework on rights that are universal to all, bound in international and regional treaties signed by States. While there is no explicit universal right to land in these treaties, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) considers land as a key element to realise many human rights. For rural people who rely on agriculture for their livelihoods, land implicitly relates to the right to property, food, housing and work, to name just a few. Key treaties make that clear, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). A focus on land tenure security can help to fulfil human rights obligations. Furthermore, it remains possible that land itself becomes a universal right in the future. -
DocumentPublic workshop on migration and women’s land tenure rights and security in the Mekong Sub-region, 31st January 2019. Concept note 2019
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