El Foro Internacional de Mujeres Indígenas-FIMI y la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura- FAO, anuncian la apertura de la segunda edición del Programa de Derechos Humanos, Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutrición; a realizarse en El Salvador, Panamá y Paraguay. El programa consta de tres etapas, bajo la modalidad de dos encuentros presenciales de formación y un proceso de facilitación de aprendizajes en línea a través de una plataforma virtual. Comprendiendo una duración de 10 meses calendario, iniciando en junio de 2016 y concluyendo en marzo de 2017. El principal objetivo de este Programa es fortalecer las...

From February 14 to the 19th, 25 indigenous peoples' representatives and experts from Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Nicaragua and Honduras met in Panama City to learn and discuss on the practical uses of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) for indigenous peoples. This capacity-building initiative, which is being implemented in partnership with Centro para la Autonomía y Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (CADPI), has been build up to support indigenous peoples in improving their tenure issues, in particular by strengthening their capacity...

Indigenous women leaders from different regions of Peru met in the city of Lima to participate in the face-to-face seminar of the Leadership School of Indigenous Women, a joint initiative of the International Indigenous Women Forum (IIWF-FIMI) and FAO. 13 indigenous women representatives of organizations related to women empowerment, nutrition, agriculture and other fields came from diverse regions of the mountain and forest areas of the country to learn about food security, nutrition and human rights. This capacity building programme has also been devised to teach women advocacy tools that will enable them to promote actions in support of food security...

The 25 indigenous women leaders who participated in the Human Rights, Food Security and Nutrition capacity-building programme in Bolivia, developed jointly by FAO and the International Forum of Indigenous Women (FIMI), finalized the face-to-face phase of the trainings having made advocacy plans and well as enabled a space for socialization of ideas among the participants.    In this phase, the knowledge acquired during the virtual period was consolidated, as...

More than 350 indigenous women from at least 22 countries of the Americas joined together in Guatemala City from the 16th  to the 20th  of November to take part in the VII Continental Meeting of Indigenous Women from the Americas. Main objectives of the meeting were to discuss about the participation of indigenous peoples in the new agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030, and to debate about indigenous women empowerment, individual and collective rights, traditional knowledge and indigenous women, and climate change.  Among other personalities, the gathering counted the presence of Diego Recalde, FAO representative in Guatemala, Rosalina Tuyuc,...