Unmanned aerial vehicles have the potential to empower indigenous communities to become equal partners in the efforts to safeguard their ter...

Saramaccan communities in Suriname seek government’s recognition of their traditional knowledge On 23 February 2016, 18 Saramaccan commun...

An encounter with an innovative technique known as participatory three-dimensional modelling was to prove a turning point in the life of a...

The Ogiek peoples live on the slopes of Mount Elgon in Kenya. This documentary shows the Ogiek's relationship to their homeland and...

This film interview of Dr. Nigel Crawhall, Director of Secretariat at the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC), is ...

Gregor Maclennan from Digital Democracy talks about the use of UAVs used in the context of indigenous land rights in Guyana....

This CD “ Mapping for Change: Practice, technologies and communication ” includes a selection of papers presented at the “Mapping for Chan...

In a recent decision  the  African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights has ruled that the Government of Kenya should " preserve th...

The Baka indigenous people in the forests of the Congo Basin have been using PDAs (personal digital assistants) with built-in global pos...

SAMOSIR, NORTH SUMATRA (30 August 2013) - With governments, loggers, miners and palm oil producers poaching their lands with impunity, indi...

Jakarta, 14 November 2012 – The Indigenous Peoples' Alliance of the Archipelago ( AMAN ) and Network for Participatory Mapping ( JKPP ...

In the Solomon Islands, a place of rich cultural heritage, there are many threats to historical cultural sites including logging, climate...

The struggle to save Palawan (known as the Philippines’ Last Frontier) is not only about saving trees and rare species. It is also about...

Set in the Altai Republic of Russia in southern Siberia, Mapping is Power follows cultural specialist Maya Erlenbaeva and shaman Maria ...

Dave De Vera, executive director of PAFID  is an advocate in rights based approaches and expert in participatory mapping (in particular...

El Pueblo Indígena Chorotega del norte de Nicaragua, reclama sus derechos a las tierras ancestrales y reivindican su cultura

Landscape, Process and Power   ( now available in paperback edition ) “…presents an excellent overview of the study of traditional envi...

In 2009 a group of Batwa representatives from Uganda travelled to Ogiek communities in Kenya to learn about their situation and the differe...

In 2006 a little known ethnic group – called the Ogiek - created a three-dimensional map of their ancestral land in Kenya. In the past m...

Mapping for Rights aims to provide easy access to accurate geographical information about the presence, land use and rights of indigeno...