News – Land Rights Standard

From Local Realities to Global Goals: Enabling Pathways for Rights-based Community-led Conservation

A new report by RRI, Forest Peoples Programme, and the ICCA Consortium assessing 30 high-biodiversity countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America finds that while most countries have legal pathways to advance rights-based conservation, in practice, communities’ contributions to national conservation efforts continue to be inadequately recognized or supported.

September 22, 2025

Blog Post

Land, water, and change: The importance of intersectionality and unity in climate justice work

As the fight for climate justice continues, acknowledging the connections between land, water, ecosystems, and human communities is critical for the realization of positive and lasting change.

January 27, 2025

Blog Post

Q&A with Indigenous leader Gam Shimray on how rights, biodiversity, and the global future are intertwined

On the eve of COP15 in 2022, Landscape News spoke with Gam Shimray, Secretary-General of Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP), who has been defending and promoting the rights of Indigenous Peoples for almost 30 years. Here, he explicates just how deeply rights, biodiversity, and the global future are intertwined.

November 1, 2023

Press Release

New resource aims to help companies and investors partner with Indigenous and Local Peoples in their land-based investments and supply chains

A new resource seeks to support companies and investors in understanding the shared value community monitoring could add to their operations and investments, and outlines principles to help them build productive partnerships with communities to secure their land tenure and improve compliance with environmental and social standards and commitments.

May 25, 2023

Video

What do land rights mean for Indigenous Peoples?

In 2019, a group of organizations came together around the idea of creating a “standard” for the rights of Indigenous Peoples, to guide how Indigenous, Afro-descendant and local community rights should be included in legislation, investment and global development.

October 14, 2022

Op-ed

Carbon markets could protect nature and the planet, but only if the rights of those who live there are recognized too

Carbon markets are trading systems through which countries, businesses, individuals or other entities buy or sell units of greenhouse gas emissions.

March 9, 2022