"Putting Human Rights at the Heart of Climate Change – Indigenous Peoples' Perspectives", 3 Jun 2015

[P]articipants at this event considered the implications of climate change mitigation actions on Indigenous Peoples' rights, and discussed the importance of human rights language in the Paris agreement in order to avoid risks to Indigenous Peoples in climate change projects...Victoria Tauli Corpuz, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples...stressed that parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change should consider the human rights of Indigenous Peoples in all climate change related actions...Esupat David Songoi, Longido Community Development Organization, Tanzania, highlighted the challenges faced by Indigenous Peoples through: policies that do not consider their wellbeing; clashes between farmers and pastoralists in her country; evictions from lands designated as protected areas; and investor-related threats...