While Brazil highlights the Indigenous concept of #mutirão (a collective effort rooted in community and solidarity) the government’s recent approval of the Devastation Bill (PL da Devastação) threatens to undo everything by weakening environmental protections and opening the

✊🏽 Demand 1: Land Rights For us Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, our territory is life itself. It is a profound connection to our spirituality, identity, and belonging. Science confirms what we have always known: Our territories are key to stopping deforestation,

🌿 FPIC isn’t optional. It’s essential. From our perspective, Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) is the foundation of our self-determination, and our right to decide our future according to our ways of life. It ensures that every voice - women, men, and youth - is heard in

🌍 In the face of climate change, where do we find the keys to our survival? We look to the women in our communities. They are the guardians of the ancestral wisdom that shows us how to prevent famine and protect our water. This knowledge, embedded in our Indigenous languages,

Greetings from Bali, Indonesia! 🇮🇩 We’re here at the very first Global Youth Forum, bringing together Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and Afro-descendant youth from over 25 countries. Hosted by Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), Barisan Pemuda Adat Nusantara (BPAN),

Across our territories, an unprecedented crisis is unfolding. They are harassing, persecuting, kidnapping, jailing and murdering our leaders for defending our land. Agribusiness, extensive ranching, and deforestation aren't just threats to our environment. They lead to the

From Bali to the world: Youth are leading the way. This week, the Global Youth Forum (GYF) brought together over 50 Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and Local Community youth from 27+ countries. United in purpose, traditional knowledge, and climate action. This gathering is more