Indigenous and customary land owners are facing massive pressures including from illegal logging and palm oil expansion. Their lands, livelihoods and cultures are under threat and many have been attacked and killed for defending their ancestral territories. Forest Peoples Programme is a dynamic human rights organisation that supports people who live in tropical forests and depend on them for their livelihoods. Since 1990 we have been supporting forest peoples to secure their rights, control their lands and decide their own futures. We do this by working side by side with indigenous and local groups and by bringing international expertise including legal expertise to support their cause - from mapping traditional lands to litigating governments, from engaging powerful global companies to

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