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Carbon market mechanisms enable the sale of carbon credits, which represent quantified emission reduction or removals in a form that can be bought and sold. These credits are purchased by governments, companies and individuals to offset their own emissions. In the Philippines, such nature-based projects are often located within, or overlap with, territories traditionally owned by Indigenous peoples. Notwithstanding this, Indigenous peoples frequently face a range of legal, so

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has delivered its latest ruling regarding Indigenous Peoples’ rights, in a crucial step towards securing justice for the Maasai people of Kedong, Kenya and representing an important addition to the growing body of African Indigenous rights jurisprudence [...]

“There’s no place like our home,” sang members of the Mau and Elgon Ogiek, Sengwer, Endorois, El Molo and Yaaku communities, who had gathered for a legal empowerment training at a time when Indigenous communities across East Africa are increasingly being approached by carbon developers seeking to develop offset projects on their ancestral lands [...]

In May 2026, International Lawyers Project (ILP), in collaboration with Akar Global Inisiatif and with support from the Indonesian Ministry of Law, convened a three-day training titled “School for Public Legal Aid (Sekolah Pendamping Hukum Rakyat)” for members of the local community [...]

In March 2026, ILP joined other members of the pro bono community at PILnet’s European Convening in Frankfurt, Germany. The event was an opportunity to engage in a series of in-depth conversations [...]

As governments around the world pour tens of billions of pounds into AI-based systems every year, civil society needs to prepare for a new challenge: how to monitor their procurement and deployment of AI tools at a time of diminishing civic space and shrinking donor funding [...]

Corruption acts as one of the most important enabling factors behind wildlife crime, facilitating the movement of illicit wildlife shipments along all stages of the supply chain from source to market, and obstructing criminal justice [...]

The fourth session of negotiations on the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (Framework Convention) took place in New York from 2 to 13 February 2026. The programme of work covered [...]