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Indigenous Peoples are defending their territories, rights and livelihoods in one of the planet’s largest remaining rainforests against dispossession and destructive developments. The Peoples’ Legal School supports their struggles for life by strengthening the next generation of legal defenders.

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Categories

  • Environment/Conservation Environment/​Conservation
  • Human Rights/Advocacy Human Rights/​Advocacy
  • Beneficiaries

    • Minority Groups Minority Groups
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)
    • Other Other

    Situation

    Indigenous Peoples’ rights, forests and waters are under threat from illegal logging and mining, industrial agriculture, fossil fuels extraction, road-building and narcotics production. Social inequalities and their marginalisation limit their access to quality legal defence to confront these threats and enforce their collective rights; too often, the powerful use Peru's judicial system against communities to cement the dispossession of their lands and criminalise and repress land defenders.

    Solution

    In 2021, the Instituto de Defensa Legal and Forest Peoples Programme established the Peoples' Legal School, to strengthen the defence of Indigenous Peoples' collective and territorial rights across Peru. By providing law students from across the Andean-Amazon region with training, exchanges and opportunities to work directly in solidarity with frontline Indigenous organisations, the School is forming a skilled and active network of a new generation of Indigenous rights and land defenders.

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    100%
    Categories

  • Environment/Conservation Environment/​Conservation
  • Human Rights/Advocacy Human Rights/​Advocacy
  • Beneficiaries

    • Minority Groups Minority Groups
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)
    • Other Other