News and Events – Dana Declaration on Mobile Peoples and Conservation

Dana +10 Workshop

Wadi Dana, Jordan 11-13 April, 2012Mobile indigenous peoples (e.g. pastoralists, hunter-gatherers, some swidden agriculturalists) have sustainably managed the land they live on for centuries. However, in the name of biodiversity conservation, some have been displaced, dispossessed and expelled from their traditional territories and left destitute and culturally impoverished. While these…

10.07.26

Dana Conference

Wadi Dana Nature Reserve, Jordan 3-7 April, 2002 Mobile Peoples and Conservation: Crossing the Disciplinary Divide A group of concerned professionals including social and natural scientists from all regions of the world met at Wadi Dana Nature Reserve, Jordan, 3-7 th April 2002, to consider a comprehensive approach to mobile…

10.07.26

New publication on mobile indigenous peoples and the quest for human rights

Professor Dawn Chatty (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford) just published a new article on the French journal Nomopolis on mobile indigenous peoples and human rights. The article nicely summarizes the state of international law and policy regarding mobile peoples. Share widely!Article: Mobile Indigenous Peoples and the Quest for Human…

14.12.25

UNDP Side-Event on the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples on Mobile Indigenous Peoples

UN Special Rapporteur Indigenous Peoples : Mobile Peoples reportAuthors: Dawn Chatty, Ariell Ahearn, Frederick Ole Ikayo, Elaine Porokwa, Seánna HowardOn 14 October 2024, an event was held at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Headquarters in New York to promote the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples,…

19.11.24

Key Reflections on the UN Report on Mobile Indigenous Peoples

Key Reflections on the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on Mobile Indigenous Peoples. A/79/160. · Mobility is crucial to Mobile Indigenous Peoples identity and lifeways. Mobility is a complex concept which incorporates elements of social, political, economic and religious and philosophical components.· Mis-understandings of mobility, whether they…

06.11.24

Live Recording of Dana +20 Side Event Advocating for the Visibility, Rights, and Self-Determination of Mobile Indigenous Peoples: The Dana +20 Manifesto

The Dana+20 Manifesto of Mobile Peoples (2022) was disseminated through a side event to support the UN Special Rapporteur's report on the situation of Mobile Indigenous Peoples. The event identified initiatives to recognize and respect the rights of Mobile Peoples, including existing UN mechanisms and ILO instruments, and identified gaps…

03.05.24

Dana +20 Side Event at the 23rd United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)

The Twenty-Third United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) held in New York between 15 and 25 April was special. It was the first time that Mobile Peoples were clearly welcomed. A side event in the United Nations building had been approved and co-sponsored by the Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Issues (SRIP) for…

01.05.24

Cactuses and goats

In the dry tropical forest of the reserve of Tehuacán in the Oaxaca State, Mexico, amongst ancient cactuses that stretch to the sky and play with the clouds, two herders, a couple, herd their pastoreña goats, while fulfilling their love for nature, remoteness, and calmness. They migrate with the changing seasons…

19.06.23

Mobile Maritime Peoples & Sedentary Citizenship: the case of the Moken in Thailand

Captions: Moken people arrive on shore (credit: authors)‘We used to have lots of space. Each family to their own. We are not used to living in a house next to each other like this,’ a Moken man told us as we sat with him in his small hut on a…

18.04.23

Indigenous and Mobile Peoples Rights at the COP15

In December 2022, hundreds of representatives from Indigenous communities travelled to Tiohti:áke (Montreal) to make their voices heard in discussions about the future of conservation, and to tell policy-makers that their rights must be respected and their people actively involved in efforts to protect nature on their territories. As a…

07.02.23

The Dana +20 Manifesto: what were its roots?

What is Dana Declaration?The Dana +20 Manifesto is a celebration, a reaffirmation and, in some important ways, a re-direction of the 2002 Declaration on Mobile Peoples and Conservation. This was a momentous statement which had been drawn up and endorsed by natural and social scientists, conservationists, and policymakers in the…

30.12.22

Dana+20 Workshop

On Sep. 7, 2022, Her Royal Highness, Princess Basma Bint Talal of Jordan, opened a four day workshop conference at Wadi Dana Nature Reserve.

05.09.22

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