Indigenous Peoples

The ASEAN Declaration on Environmental Rights: whose rights and what rights?

Perspective / Representatives of Indigenous Peoples’ organizations and partners gathered to deliberate on the draft text of the ASEAN Declaration on Environmental Rights.

SEI’s Kløcker Larsen in The Guardian: developer contracts with Sámi reindeer herders “harmful”

Media coverage / The Guardian cites SEI's Rasmus Kløcker Larsen on a study about how developer contracts affect Sami reindeer herders in Sweden.

E-Sak Ka Ou Declaration underscores Indigenous People’s rights for climate action

Media coverage / SEI Asia's Minh Tran discusses the E-Sak Ka Ou Declaration, emphasizing Indigenous People's rights as a critical component of climate action.

Negotiated agreements and Sámi reindeer herding in Sweden: evaluating outcomes

Journal article / In this paper, the authors offer an analysis of a selection of agreements involving Sami reindeer herders in Sweden.

Initiative for the Inclusive Development of Renewable Energy in La Guajira – IDEAR Guajira

Program / This programme aims to build a collaborative platform to accelerate renewable energy deployment in La Guajira.

Critiquing knowledge co-production in disaster risk reduction

SEI podcast / Achieving more equitable disaster research requires re-politicized forms of knowledge co-production.

Are capital assets under pressure? The state of and challenges to Indigenous rice farming in the cultural ricescapes of Indonesia and the Philippines

Journal article / This paper analyses the challenges of various types of capital assets to Indigenous rice farming in Indonesia and the Philippines.

Looking beyond Indigeneity: impacts of green transition on Indigenous Peoples

Perspective / Explore the diverse impacts of green energy on Latin America's Indigenous communities, beyond a one-size-fits-all approach.

Land use conflicts on Sámi lands

Project / Green transition has become a catch-all solution, but it's not without its trade-offs and conflicts. We seek to highlight them to ensure a just transition.