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A new IUCN report, Climate change – the indigenous perspective, says indigenous peoples around the world will bear the brunt of climate change – but they are also armed with the traditional knowledge to survive its effects. The ingenuity of
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Minority and indigenous groups across the world are among the hardest hit by climate change and often disproportionately affected by climate-related disasters but their plight has yet to be recognised by the international community, a new report says. A study
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This report was compiled in the frame of the FP6 project “Human and Minority Rights in the Life Cycle of Ethnic conflicts”. As part of the multi-year research project ‘MIRICO: Human and Minority Rights in the Life Cycle of Ethnic
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Though Turkey is a land of vast ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity – home not only to Turks, Kurds and Armenians, but also, among others, Alevis, Ezidis, Assyrians, Laz, Caferis, Roma, Rum, Caucasians and Jews, the history of the state is one of severe repression of minorities in the name of nationalism. The only protection for Turkey’s minorities is that set out in the outdated 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, which acknowledges only non-Muslim minorities. Turkey has violated the Treaty since its adoption, not least by restricting its scope to Armenians, Jews and Rum (Greek Orthodox). Excluded minorities have been banned from using their languages and from exercising their religious rights, or subjected to policies aimed at homogenizing the Turkish population and destroying minority languages, cultures and religions. This report sets current law and practice in Turkey against the backdrop of equivalent international standards on linguistic rights of minorities; freedom of religion, thought and conscience; freedom of expression; freedom of assembly and association; political participation; property rights and anti-discrimination. It considers the impact of the EU accession process, showing that though Turkey’s attitude to minorities has changed for the better over the past 6 years, much more remains to be done. Will Turkey continue its path of reform or opt for further repression of its centuries old heritage? After hundreds of thousands of Turkish people took to the streets in January 2007 to protest the killing of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist, this report highlights the importance of this moment in Turkey’s history – a moment that, for the sake of equality for the country’s centuries-old minority communities, must not go to waste.
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The indigenous peoples of the Arctic have adapted to great environmental variability, cold, extended winter darkness, and fluctuations in animal populations, among many other challenges posed by geography and climate. Although the arctic climate has always
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This publication is the five-year-milestone of the Indigenous Knowledge for Development Program in the Africa Region of the World Bank. The main goal of the program is to learn from the knowledge embedded in the practices of local communities. A core activity
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