...[D]uring the annual United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights, our foundation is naming LAHURNIP (Lawyers’ Association for Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples) as recipient of the 2025 Human Rights and Business Award... One of our foundation’s Advisory Network members, Joan Carling (Executive Director at Indigenous Peoples Rights International, herself from the Indigenous Kankanaey Tribe in the Philippines), commented: “Through the years, LAHURNIP has given hope to many Indigenous communities who are feeling helpless and powerless in the face of aggression by business interests often supported by the government. LAHURNIP’s greatest strength is the deep trust it has earned from Indigenous and local communities. The organization has done exemplary work alongside the most marginalized Indigenous communities affected by business operations.”

... Shankar Limbu (Vice Chairperson of LAHURNIP’s Executive Board) made the following remarks; he is a lawyer defending human rights in Nepal, and belongs to the “Limbu” Yakthung Indigenous Peoples of Eastern Nepal: “We are deeply honored to receive this prestigious award. Indeed, we firmly believe this is the recognition of, and honor to, the collective movement of Indigenous Peoples and our allies who stand with us for pursuing justice and human rights. We thank the foundation for this recognition, which strongly encourages us to hold business and government actors accountable and to safeguard our sovereignty, self-determination, self-governance, and the stewardship of our ancestral lands and environment. In our decades of experience, due respect and implementation of human rights in business activities resolves latent and manifested conflicts between Indigenous Peoples and business actors, including the state, in amicable manners, leading to ensuring peace and just development.”

... Following is a list of all the organizations nominated for the 2025 Human Rights and Business Award by members of our foundation’s Advisory Network. Each of these is doing important work deserving international recognition.

• Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity (BCWS) – Bangladesh
• Cividep India – India
• Community Resource Centre Foundation (CRC) – Thailand
• LAHURNIP (Lawyers’ Association for Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples) – Nepal – AWARD RECIPIENT
• Satya Bumi – Indonesia