Across the Amazon, organized crime is expanding rapidly, driving violence, environmental destruction, and the erosion of Indigenous rights.
Indigenous Peoples are not only on the front lines of this crisis, they are leading the most effective responses. Through territorial monitoring, community governance, and protection systems rooted in their own knowledge and traditions, they are defending the Amazon and sustaining their ways of life.
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To decision-makers in the U.N. Conference on Transnational Crime:
In response to the crisis of the rise of organized crime and illicit economies across the Amazon region, we urge you to:
- Support Indigenous territorial governance and autonomy
- Protect Indigenous leaders and environmental defenders
- Invest in sustainable, community-led economic alternatives, and
- Ensure Indigenous Peoples have a central role in decision-making processes.
A rights-based, Indigenous-led approach is essential to protecting the Amazon and addressing the root causes of organized crime.
Therefore Indigenous Peoples need to be consulted in decision making on security and anti-crime policies in the U.N. Conference on Transnational Crime this October in Vienna.
