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Introducing ILC's 2019-2021 Triennial Report: People, Land, Planet

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  • Contact: Ms Vanda Altarelli
  • Address: Via Vetulonia 38A 00183 , Rome
  • Phone: 39 067 04 900 63
  • Email: associazionesonia@gmail.com
  • Web: www.associazionesonia.org
  • Members:
    SONIA

SONIA

SOCIETY FOR NEW INITIATIVES AND ACTIVITIES FOR A JUST NEW WORLD

2013

Member since

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
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Secure Tenure Rights

Respect and protect the inherent land and territorial rights of indigenous peoples, as set out in ILO Convention 169 and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including by recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge and cultures contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment".
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Secure territorial rights for Indigenous Peoples

Ensure that processes of decision-making over land are inclusive, so that policies, laws, procedures and decisions concerning land adequately reflect the rights, needs and aspirations of individuals and communities who will be affected by them. This requires the empowerment of those who otherwise would face limitations in representing their interests, particularly through support to land users' and other civil society organizations that are best able to inform, mobilize and legitimately represent marginalized land users, and their participation in multi-stakeholder platforms for policy dialogue.
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Inclusive decision-making

Mission

In alliance with like-minded partners, SONIA seeks to assist in creating the conditions and providing the tools that foster self-determined and sustainable development for marginalized and vulnerable groups (women, indigenous peoples, children and youth). Acting as a catalyst,a broker and a facilitator, SONIA empowers these groups by offering them the opportunity and the instruments to recover and regain self-respect, dignity and to make their voices heard in decision making. 

SONIA envisions spreading a culture of peace and of respect for human rights. For SONIA, peace means social justice, reciprocal respect, sustainable and self-determined development, valuing different cultures, solidarity and sharing.

Objectives

SONIA's objectives are various and diverse. They include raising awareness; undertaking advocacy and providing capacity building on issues related to indigenous peoples and other marginalized groups ( women, youth and children); advocating for and fostering climate justice; the sustainable use of natural resources and of culturally sustained agro-biodiversity; and fostering self-determined, sustainable development and inter-generational transfer of knowledge at local level.

Constituencies

SONIA's constituencies include indigenous women, children and men; Dalit women; and marginalized children and youth.

  • Contact: Ms Vanda Altarelli
  • Address: Via Vetulonia 38A 00183 , Rome
  • Phone: 39 067 04 900 63
  • Email: associazionesonia@gmail.com
  • Web: www.associazionesonia.org
  • Members:
    SONIA