INDIGENOUS PEOPLE MODULE

Amazonian peoples
Territories
Ethnicities,
Traditional Knowledge
and Languages

Photo: OTCA archive/Sergio Amaral

The Indigenous Peoples module of ORA gathers information and news about Amazonian indigenous communities and is intended to help member countries of ACTO (Amazonian Cooperation Treaty Organization) to monitor the situation in the Forest and the conditions of their original peoples. The initial content is based on studies on indigenous health carried out in 2022 in six border regions, mainly to verify how the villages, in different territories, faced the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as to identify the epidemiological profile of the communities, today exposed to threats, pressures and challenges derived from predatory and illegal actions such as mining, fishing and logging.

A special focus of these studies was the identification of isolated indigenous peoples or in initial contact, the health situation and vulnerabilities, the economic relations, as well as the structure of the health services dedicated to the indigenous people.

Photo: OTCA archive/Sergio Amaral

Institutions
Legislation,
History and knowledge
Weather
Environment

SHORTLY. The second phase of organizing the contents of the Indigenous Peoples Module will be the provision of lists of institutions recognized by ACTO members, legal references on indigenous peoples and data from specialists in the subject, from each of the countries. Information is also being prepared on the relationship between indigenous peoples and the climate and forest environment, as well as special content on the history, knowledge and relationship of communities in their territories.

News

Follow the news about the Amazonian Indigenous Peoples published by the main communication vehicles of the member countries.

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