Continental Contribution to the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples

Network for Research on Urban Indigenous Peoples

The document is the Continental Contribution to the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the Impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous Peoples for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). It was prepared by the Network for Research on Urban Indigenous Peoples (RISIU), which brings together a collective of some fifty institutions, research centers, organizations, and foundations, and involves 87 researchers from North, Central, and South America. The document compiles contributions from nineteen countries across the continent. Working with teams of informants from Indigenous networks, social organizations, universities, and research centers, these organizations produced documents that illustrate the complex problems and extreme vulnerability of urban and rural Indigenous populations in our countries.

The collective emerged from a CLACSO Working Group and has contributed to publications available on the CLACSO Library website. Given the critical importance of continuing to raise awareness about the displacement of Indigenous peoples and communities from their territories across the continent (more than 60% of Indigenous people in the USA and Canada live in cities, and in Latin America the figure is around 50%), this document will undoubtedly be of great importance for understanding the spread of COVID-19 from cities to Indigenous communities in their ancestral rural territories.

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