Rights and Resources

Securing Indigenous Peoples', Afro-descendant Peoples', and local communities' land and resource rights—including the rights of the women and youth within these groups—is vital to both staving off the climate crisis and achieving sustainable development. It's also a human rights imperative. The Rights and Resources Initiative is a global coalition of more than 200 rightsholder organizations and their allies dedicated to advancing the land and resource rights of local peoples—informed and driven by communities themselves.