The applicant to the Fund should be an active member or leader or an indigenous organization, institution or community; or from an advocate organization working on Indigenous Peoples’ rights and concerns. The applicant shall fill-up the IPRI..
Year: 2020
Provision of Sanctuary Fund?
The applicant requesting for Sanctuary assistance should have exhausted all the available remedies and protection measures before requesting for sanctuary. Provisions of sanctuary shall include facilities for homestay, access to equipments and other facilities needed to continue his/her..
Who are eligible to apply?
The Fund is open to Indigenous Human Rights Defenders, members of Indigenous organizations, institutions and communities, experiencing serious threats to their individual and or collective rights. These threats are those particularly related to acts of criminalization,..
The Fund
The initial amount of the Fund is 50,000 USD for 2020. IPRI is committed to raise more funds to advance further the objectives of this Fund. Likewise, IPRI shall work with similar funds and with donors for complementation..
Background and Context
Indigenous peoples have long been struggling to defend their rights against criminalization and impunity at the local, national and regional levels. However, there are no concerted efforts to address this issue in a sustained and systematic manner. The..
Components of this Initiative
Global Database This Initiative will have a global data base on cases of criminalization, violence and impunity against indigenous peoples. This will include a compilation of discriminatory laws and policies criminalizing indigenous peoples; fact sheet of cases, actions..
The Global Initiative
Indigenous peoples have long been struggling to defend their rights against criminalization and impunity at the local, national and regional levels. However, there are no concerted efforts to address this issue in a sustained and systematic manner. This..
Addressing worsening criminalization and impunity against Indigenous People
Acts of criminalization and impunity against indigenous peoples are serious and systemic violations of their human rights, dignity and wellbeing. It renders them powerless and diminishes opportunities and spaces to assert and protect their individual and collective rights..
Definition of Terms
Criminalization Criminalization refers to the ways in which criminal law is used improperly, through the manipulation by the State of its punitive power against those asserting and claiming their human rights, including indigenous peoples. This is done through..
2019, Congo: Land Rights Defenders in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The indigenous Pygmy peoples have ties to their land and natural resources. They are primitive peoples who rely on hunting, fishing, gathering and foraging for subsistence. Their lifestyle is unlike that of other social groups like the Bantu,..
