For the first time, ahead of COP16, 25 Afro-descendant organizations announce recommendations to prioritize land rights of communities contributing to conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean
A declaration released at a
press briefing highlights significant overlap between lands claimed by
Afro-descendant Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean and biodiversity
hotspots; call for the inclusion of the term Afro-descendants in the Convention
on Biological Diversity (CBD) and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC)
Bogotá, Colombia, June 14 – At a press briefing held on Friday, June 14, the Coalition of Territorial and Environmental Rights for Afro-descendant Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbeans, in alliance with Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), Proceso De Comunidades Negras (PCN), Coordenação Nacional de Articulação das Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas (CONAQ), and various Afro-descendant organizations released a series of evidence-based recommendations that will call on organizers of the 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference to include full respect for the rights and contributions of Afro-descendant communities at the global event that will open on October 21 in Cali, Colombia.
