Evaluating current and future challenges Business and Natural
Evaluating current and future challenges Business and Natural Resources Rights
“In addition to serious consequences for community health, COVID-19 could have a major impact on the conservation and protection of indigenous territories. ” What kind of consequences does the author imply? What might be the solutions, at least temporary?
Possible solutions • Cooperation with neighboring states where indigenous peoples live in cross-border areas • Consider establishing post COVID-19 reconstruction funds and public resources specifically aimed at indigenous peoples’ needs • Ensure access to education for indigenous children and youth by providing necessary tools for remote learning • Make specific efforts to improve information technology, and other infrastructure, to ensure that all people, including indigenous peoples have access to information. • Improve the access and management of clean water and sanitation, particularly for indigenous peoples living in remote communities, to avoid further spread of the virus.
Indigenous women have higher rates of maternal mortality, teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases and are more likely to suffer violence. What solutions have already been offered? (Platforms, mechanisms of protection? ) What is the role of NGOs?
Some steps towards a solution • Legislative reform • Regular and comprehensive collection of data • Raising public awareness • Ensuring active participation of groups concerned
In addition to circumstances of extreme poverty, indigenous peoples suffer from malnutrition because of environmental degradation and contamination of the ecosystems in which indigenous communities have traditionally lived, loss of land territory and a decline in abundance or accessibility of traditional food sources. What solutions have already been offered? (Platforms, mechanisms of protection? ) What is the role of NGOs?
Poverty linked to • Geographical exclusion / remoteness • Political exclusion • Discrimination • Limited infrastructure
“There is a growing international consensus that ‘development’ means doing something about poverty, and that doing something about poverty does not happen in a vacuum; rather, it requires the active participation of people who are poor. For diverse indigenous peoples around the world, these ideas are opening a significant policy space where their often long-standing quests for resources and recognition can be heard. ” Robyn Eversole, John-Andrew Mcneish and Alberto D. Cimadamore (eds. ) Indigenous peoples and poverty: an international perspective, 2005.
Evaluating current and future challenges Business and Natural Resources Rights
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