| Major group affiliation: |
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| Involvement in UN Partnerships: |
Yes |
| If yes, explain in detail: |
Iepé integrates the Advisory Council of the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative, an international, multi-faith alliance, promoted by the United Nation Environment Programme, that works to bring moral urgency and faith-based leadership to global efforts to end tropical deforestation. In 2017, Iepé contributed with the third Universal Periodic Review cycle, presenting a civil society report about the situation of indigenous people in Brazil, and organizing a general civil society report on the violations of indigenous people Human Rights in Brazil. Iepé integrates, as well, the Brazil UPR Collective (Coletivo RPU Brasil) currently composed of 27 non-governmental organizations that defend Humans Rights at the international level and have developed activities related to UPR within their institutional agendas. The collective was created in 2018 with de aim of monitoring the recommendations received by the Brazilian State on the third UPR cycle. Iepé has also performed incidence actions with the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the UN, in order to request hearings to handle retreats in indigenous rights and in indigenist policy, and produced reports on the situation of the indigenous right for Free, Prior and Informed Consultation in Brazil, which may subsidize such bodies in public expressions and in contacts with the Brazilian government. In addition, Iepé has acted very closely with the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Mrs. Victória Tauli-Corpuz, who was in an official mission in the country in May 2016, contributing with reports to subsidize her official report. Besides that, Iepé has been following the work of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and has also contributed with the Mechanism’s study on Prior, Free and Informed Consultation. Iepé has also organized and promoted parallel events on the EMRIP reunions. During the eleventh session of the EMRIP, for example, Iepé organized and parallel event about the Brazilian indigenous people’s experiences with the making of autonomous Consultation Protocols. |
| Affiliation with other organizations: |
Iepé is currently in charge of the Executive Secretariat of the Amazon Cooperation Network (Rede de Cooperação Amazônica – RCA https://rca.org.br/) that gathers 14 indigenous and indigenous support organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (ISA, ATIX, CPI-AC, CTI, APINA, HUTUKARA, FOIRN, OPIAC, AMAAIC, WYTY-CATE, OGM, CIR, AMIM, Iepé). The Network aims to promote the articulation and political protagonism of these organizations around strategic themes related to the sustainability and local governance of the indigenous territories; public recognition of the key role that indigenous peoples play in forest conservation; strengthening of indigenous and indigenist organizations in the defense of indigenous interests and rights in the Amazon; and improvement of indigenist and environmental public policies. In recent years, the Network chose as priority the defense of the indigenous constitutional rights, the realization of the right to free, prior and informed consultation and the indigenous qualification in the discussion of climate changes. The actions of the Network involve more than 136 thousand indigenous of all gender and age range, inhabitants of the 93 indigenous lands, totaling almost 47 million hectares of forest, covered by the work of its 14 member organizations. |
| Publications: |
Fish and fishing: knowledge and practices among the indigenous people of Oiapoque, Amapá, 2019. 1st edition. Parque do Tumucumaque and Rio Paru d’Este Indigenous Lands Socio-environmental Management Plan, 2018. 1st edition. Wajãpi Indigenous Land Socio-environmental Management Plan, 2017. 1st edition. Uasei, The Açaí Book: knowledge of the Karipuna indigenous people, 2015. 1st edition. Wajãpi Indigenous Land: from the demarcation to the territorial management experiences, 2011. Indigenous Peoples and Environment Bulletins. Yearly Bulletin that discusses, in each edition, a relevant subject for the indigenous communities of Amapá and Northern Pará. In the last 4 editions, the bulletins presented discussions on the Universal Periodic Review and the recommendations made by the UN for Brazilian government concerning indigenous people human rights; the richness of the indigenous local agriculture; the political fight of the Katxuyana, Tunayana and Kahyana indigenous people for the demarcation of their land; and the legislative threats to indigenous rights. |
| Affiliation with other organizations: |
Iepé is currently in charge of the Executive Secretariat of the Amazon Cooperation Network (Rede de Cooperação Amazônica – RCA https://rca.org.br/) that gathers 14 indigenous and indigenous support organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (ISA, ATIX, CPI-AC, CTI, APINA, HUTUKARA, FOIRN, OPIAC, AMAAIC, WYTY-CATE, OGM, CIR, AMIM, Iepé). The Network aims to promote the articulation and political protagonism of these organizations around strategic themes related to the sustainability and local governance of the indigenous territories; public recognition of the key role that indigenous peoples play in forest conservation; strengthening of indigenous and indigenist organizations in the defense of indigenous interests and rights in the Amazon; and improvement of indigenist and environmental public policies. In recent years, the Network chose as priority the defense of the indigenous constitutional rights, the realization of the right to free, prior and informed consultation and the indigenous qualification in the discussion of climate changes. The actions of the Network involve more than 136 thousand indigenous of all gender and age range, inhabitants of the 93 indigenous lands, totaling almost 47 million hectares of forest, covered by the work of its 14 member organizations. |
| Publications: |
Oiapoque indigenous people Consultation Protocol, 2019 Wajãpi Consultation and Consent Protocol, 2014 The book of Clay, Ëliwë Pampila, Orino Papeh, 2017 Artifacts and raw materials of the indigenous peoples of Oiapoque, 2013 Mosikoa’y rã kõ – Wajãpi Action Plan, 2012 |
| Purpose of the organization: |
Iepé´s purpose is to contribute for the cultural, political strengthening and the sustainable development of Amapá's and Northern Pará's indigenous communities, aiming the strengthening of their community and collective land management, for the rights of such populations as indigenous people to be respected. Throughout last year, three main objetives were set out: indigenous political strengthening, territorial and environmental management, and education and cultural valuation. The primary target of Iepé's work are the indigenous communities living the in area covered by the State of Amapá (Wajãpi, in the area of Amapari, and Karipuna, Palikur, Galibi-Marworno and Galibi Kali´na, in the area of Oiapoque) and Northern Pará (Tiriyó, Katxuyana, Wayana, Aparai, Zo´é, Waiwai, Tunayana, Kahyana, Hixkariyana and Txikiyana), as well as their representing organizations. In the last years, due to the widening of the work lines of the institution we also extended our actions to other social groups (such as RDS's extractive communities of Rio Iratapuru, the inhabitants of settlements of Perimetral Norte road and the quilombolas of the region of Trombetas), indigenous and environmentalist organizations, operating in Amapá and Northern Pará. Living in demarcated lands, with defined limits, presented to the indigenous communities the challenge of ensuring good life conditions for the current and future generations. To ensure the sustainable use of the existing natural resources in their territories, inspect the limits of their lands preventing invasions, and manage resources to meet the demands for a quality life became strategic actions nowadays. As holders of their own cultural traditions and specific world perspectives, Brazilian indigenous peoples have cultural rights acknowledged by the Constitution and the Brazilian State has devised specific policies to meet their needs and demands. Iepé seeks, with its actions, to support indigenous peoples for them to be able to maintain their ways of life and to have a dignified future, as culturally differentiated groups. |
| A list of members of the governing body of the organization, and their countries of nationality: |
Board of directors: Lux Boelitz Vidal (German); Marina Kahn (Brazilian); Lúcia Hussak Van Velthem (Brazilian) |
| Description of the membership of the organization, indicating the total number of members: |
36 employees hired under the CLT (Brazilian labor regulations) regime and through contracts. 03 senior anthropologists, which advise Wajãpi, Tumucumaque, Oiapoque and Zo´é Programs. Total: 39 members |
Forests
| Major group affiliation: |
Indigenous People
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| Affiliation with other organizations: |
Iepé is currently in charge of the Executive Secretariat of the Amazon Cooperation Network (Rede de Cooperação Amazônica – RCA https://rca.org.br/) that gathers 14 indigenous and indigenous support organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (ISA, ATIX, CPI-AC, CTI, APINA, HUTUKARA, FOIRN, OPIAC, AMAAIC, WYTY-CATE, OGM, CIR, AMIM, Iepé). The Network aims to promote the articulation and political protagonism of these organizations around strategic themes related to the sustainability and local governance of the indigenous territories; public recognition of the key role that indigenous peoples play in forest conservation; strengthening of indigenous and indigenist organizations in the defense of indigenous interests and rights in the Amazon; and improvement of indigenist and environmental public policies. In recent years, the Network chose as priority the defense of the indigenous constitutional rights, the realization of the right to free, prior and informed consultation and the indigenous qualification in the discussion of climate changes. The actions of the Network involve more than 136 thousand indigenous of all gender and age range, inhabitants of the 93 indigenous lands, totaling almost 47 million hectares of forest, covered by the work of its 14 member organizations. |
| Affiliation with UN bodies: |
Iepé integrates the Advisory Council of the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative, an international, multi-faith alliance, promoted by the United Nation Environment Programme, that works to bring moral urgency and faith-based leadership to global efforts to end tropical deforestation. |
| Publications: |
Parque do Tumucumaque and Rio Paru d’Este Indigenous Lands Socio-environmental Management Plan, 2018. 1st edition. Wajãpi Indigenous Land Socio-environmental Management Plan, 2017. 1st edition. Wajãpi Indigenous Land: from the demarcation to the territorial management experiences, 2011. 1st edition. |
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