Adopting and embedding a human rights-based approach across all UK policy, legislation, official development aid and foreign policy engagement that could affect indigenous peoples is a prerequisite to achieving positive human rights and environmental outcomes beyond Britain’s borders. Such actions are urgently needed for the UK to demonstrate leadership in ensuring longer-term global prosperity and equity.

Key Recommendations

1. Publicly endorse the collective human rights of indigenous peoples ...
2. Ensure all UK policies, laws and funded programmes are premised on a human rights-based approach ...
3. Enact a ‘Business, Human Rights and Environment Act’ ...
4. Increase direct funding to indigenous organisations ...
5. Promote the individual and collective rights of indigenous women ...
6. Publicly recognise, apologise and make reparations for the historical wrongs ...
7. Proactively support indigenous, land and human rights defenders ...
8. Place human rights clauses and conditionalities in trade and investment agreements, official development assistance and official development finance ...