Report: The impact of COVID-19 on indigenous communities – Insights from the Indigenous Navigator (10-13-20)

Report: The impact of COVID-19 on indigenous communities – Insights from the Indigenous Navigator

Forest Peoples Programme

10-13-20

A new report from the Forest Peoples Programme (FFP) and the Indigenous Navigator Initiative “The impact of COVID-19 on indigenous communities” identifies how pre-existing barriers in access to health, social security and education are fuelling disproportional impacts of the pandemic on indigenous peoples. The COVID-19 pandemic and its social and economic consequences are dramatically changing the trajectory towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including for the more than 476 million indigenous and forest peoples throughout the world.

Read more: https://www.forestpeoples.org/en/lands-forests-territories/report/2020/report-impact-covid-19-indigenous-communities-insights