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Amy Dickens is Campaigns and Research Intern at Survival International. She has just completed her Masters in Human Rights at University College London. She writes in her personal capacity.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, September 28, 2015 Corporate Greenwashing Destroying Indignous, Tribal Peoples
As ever more companies and governments pledge to 'go green' and protect forests, the world's tribal peoples should be among the main beneficiaries, writes Amy Dickens. Yet the reverse is the case. All too often the promises are purest greenwash, used to conceal the human and environmental tragedy of land-grabbing for plantations, mines, logging and even 'conservation'.