• Contact: ​JOSE FERNANDO PITO ZAMORA
  • Address: ​​Calle 1 # 4-50 – Popayán – Cauca – Colombia ​Calle 12f # 2-74 – Bogotá D.C – Cundinamarca - Colombia​
  • Phone: ​​8246215​
  • Email: cric@cric-colombia.org
  • Web: www.cric-colombia.org
  • Members:
    ​​CRIC NACIONAL​

​​CRIC NACIONAL​

Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca – CRIC Nacional

Member since: 2024

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

Ensure equitable land distribution and public investment that supports small-scale farming systems, including through redistributive agrarian reforms that counter excessive land concentration, provide for secure and equitable use and control of land, and allocate appropriate land to landless rural producers and urban residents, whilst supporting smallholders as investors and producers, such as through cooperative and partnership business models.
2

Strong Small-Scale Farming Systems

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".
5

Secure territorial rights for Indigenous Peoples

Enable the role of local land users in territorial and ecosystem management, recognizing that sustainable development and the stewardship of ecosystems are best achieved through participatory decision-making and management at the territorial-level, empowering local land users and their communities with the authority, means and incentives to carry out this responsibility.
6

Locally-managed ecosystems

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.
7

Inclusive decision-making

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
8

Transparent and accessible information

Prevent and remedy land grabbing, respecting traditional land use rights and local livelihoods, and ensuring that all large-scale initiatives that involve the use of land, water and other natural resources comply with human rights and environmental obligations and are based on: the free, prior and informed consent of existing land users; a thorough assessment of economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts with respect to both women and men; democratic planning and independent oversight; and transparent contracts that respect labour rights, comply with social and fiscal obligations and are specific and binding on the sharing of responsibilities and benefits. Where adverse impacts on human rights and legitimate tenure rights have occurred, concerned actors should provide for, and cooperate in, impartial and competent mechanisms to provide remedy, including through land restitution and compensation.
9

Effective actions against land grabbing

Respect and protect the civil and political rights of human rights defenders working on land issues, combat the stigmatization and criminalisation of peaceful protest and land rights activism, and end impunity for human rights violations, including harassment, threats, violence and political imprisonment
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Protected land rights defenders

Mission

​​Nosotros podemos afirmar que la Misión hoy se refleja en nuestra Plataforma de Lucha

​Recuperar las Tierras de los Resguardos

​Ampliar los Resguardos

​Fortalecer los Cabildos Indígenas

​No pagar Terraje

​Hacer conocer las leyes sobre Indígenas y exigir su justa aplicación

​Defender la Historia, la Lengua y las costumbres Indígenas

​Formar profesores Indígenas…”

​Fortalecer las Empresas Económicas y Comunitarias

​Defender los Recursos Naturales y Ambientales de los Territorios Indígenas

​Defensa de la Familia, (Jóvenes y Mujeres)​

Objectives

​​Desde nuestro nacimiento, nos definimos como un Proyecto de Vida de los Pueblos Indígenas para la defensa de nuestros Territorios, nuestras Autoridades, nuestras Lenguas y nuestras Culturas.

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​El objetivo del Plan de Vida: “Reconstruir el pasado para reafirmar el presente y darle vida al futuro”​

Constituencies

​​CRIC lleva 53 años trabajando el proceso político organizativo para la reivindicación de los derechos de los pueblos indígenas que desde el tejer, ha venido construyendo y abriendo caminos desde la Ley de Origen, Derecho Mayor, Derecho Propio y la Palabra de Origen de los pueblos Ancestrales, este camino se hace desde las estructuras de Gobierno Propio, bajo los principios de Unidad, Tierra, Cultura y Autonomía, mediante la defensa de la vida y el territorio.​

  • Contact: ​JOSE FERNANDO PITO ZAMORA
  • Address: ​​Calle 1 # 4-50 – Popayán – Cauca – Colombia ​Calle 12f # 2-74 – Bogotá D.C – Cundinamarca - Colombia​
  • Phone: ​​8246215​
  • Email: cric@cric-colombia.org
  • Web: www.cric-colombia.org
  • Members:
    ​​CRIC NACIONAL​
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