The lands of indigenous peoples have oftentimes been plundered from the ancestral remains and sacred objects of indigenous peoples to be displayed in museums and incorporated into private collections. This question monitors whether States provide effective redress or restitution with respect to cultural, intellectual, religious and spiritual property taken without free, prior and informed consent and repatriation of human remains and ceremonial objects, as provided for in Art. 11(1) of UNDRIP.
The establishment of adequate mechanisms to this end represents a commitment agreed upon in the outcome document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (para. 27) too.
Data sources: Ministries of culture and other public institutions.
If the answer is yes, please provide specific information on these mechanisms in the text box.

Please indicate whether any part of your cultural heritage, traditional knowledge (e.g. regarding medicine) or traditional cultural expressions (e.g. dance, songs or designs) has been taken or used in the past by states, companies or individuals without permission. If the answer is yes, please provide additional information as possible.

The question monitors whether indigenous peoples’ right to maintain, control, protect and develop their intellectual property over cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expression has been violated.
Art. 31(1) of UNDRIP specifies that this right applies to the manifestations of their sciences, technologies and cultures, including human and genetic resources, seeds, medicines, knowledge of the properties of fauna and flora, oral traditions, literatures, designs, sports and traditional games and visual and performing arts too.
Data sources: Indigenous organizations, reporting from credible organizations
Please answer ‘yes’, ‘No’, or ‘no information available’ – and use the comment box for additional information if relevant.

Can you access your religious and cultural sites when you wish to, or do you experience barriers?
You are given five response options here, and will have to assess which option best reflect the situation of you people/community:
• Not at all = Your community or people is able to access all religious and cultural sites without any restrictions.
• To a limited extent = Your community or people has experienced few cases where access to religious or cultural sites was denied or limited, but generally access is granted.
• To some extent= Your community or people experiences that access to religious or cultural sites is denied or limited on a regular basis.
• To a considerable extent= Your community or people is only granted access to religious or cultural sites on rare occasions, and/or access within the sites is severely limited.
• Fully = Access to religious and cultural sites is fully denied to your people or community.

Name the three most important cultural, spiritual and religious traditions, customs or ceremonies of your people or community. Such traditions, customs or ceremonies will be different from one people to another and can take a number of very different forms, such as celebrations to mark the passage of a child to adulthood; traditional wedding ceremonies; annual gatherings of traditional authorities or rituals to mark harvests or thank the spirits.

You are given six options to indicate the status of each of the traditions, customs and ceremonies identified in question 33. Chose the option that most closely describe the situation concerning each of these traditions, customs and ceremonies:
§  Safe = The custom, tradition or ceremony is conducted regularly by all generations
§  Vulnerable = the custom, tradition or ceremony is conducted regularly but with limited participation of the younger generation.
§  Definitely endangered = the custom, tradition or ceremony is conducted sporadically and/or with little participation of the younger generation
§  Severely endangered = the custom, tradition or ceremony is conducted sporadically and/or with no participation of the younger generation
§  Critically endangered = the custom, tradition or ceremony is only conducted by a few individuals from the grandparents generation
§  Extinct = the custom, tradition or ceremony is no longer practiced

This is a simple yes or no question to assess whether your people/community experiences conflicts related to lands and natural resources. Such conflicts are situations where state institutions, settlers, neighbouring communities, private companies or other external actors claim the land or natural resources that belong to your community/people.

This question monitors whether indigenous peoples have effective control over their lands, territories and resources, as provided for in Art. 26(2) of UNDRIP. The state duty to consult with indigenous peoples in good faith, in order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent prior to approving any project that affects their lands, territories and resources, is enshrined in article 32(2) of UNDRIP.
Data sources: Reporting on land grabbing in indigenous territories from the media, indigenous organizations, NGOs, international organizations, etc..
Please mark the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer option, and use the comment box to provide additional information as relevant.

If you answer yes to the previous question, you are asked to specify the reasons for these conflicts. Note that you can tick as many boxes as relevant, including the box “others”. If you tick that box, please provide more information about the other reasons for conflicts experienced by your people/community.

This is a simple yes/no question to assess if any lands or resources have actually been taken from your people/community or used by outsiders without your free, prior and informed consent (FPIC). If you answer yes to this question, please provide additional information about any such events.

This question seeks to generate data on the characteristics of your community/people's own land tenure systems. These will vary from people to people, and you should chose the option/s that most closely describe the system as follows:
§  Lands and resources are not considered property and cannot be held by people or communities = land is e.g. considered the mother of all living beings and human beings must obtain permission by the mother-land or related spirits to obtain permission to use the land and resources
§  Lands and resources are held and managed collectively by the community = the entire community collectively own and manage the land and related resources
§  Land and resources are held and managed by families, clans or other groups within the community= within the overall territory, families, clans or other groups within the community own and manage specific parts of the land and related resources
§  Land and resources are held and managed individually = land and related resources are divided into individual property.
§  Other=if none of the above options reflect the land tenure system of your people/community then tick this box and specify the characteristics of the system in the box below.

This question seeks overall information about the government's official recognition of your right to land.
You are given five response options, and will have to assess which option best reflects the government's official recognition of your land rights:
• Not at all = The collective land and resource rights of your community or people are not officially recognized in any laws or other official regulations.
• To a limited extent = There are few provisions in the legislation or other official regulations that recognise a few aspects of the collective land and resource rights of your community or people (e.g. the recognition is limited to land directly cultivated or used for housing, or to certain resources, or covers only a few villages)
• To some extent= There are some provisions in the legislation or other official regulations that recognise some aspects of the collective land and resource rights of your community or people (e.g. the recognition covers some of the key areas or resources occupied and used by the community, and extends to most of the villages/communities)
• To a considerable extent= There are ample provisions in the legislation or other official regulations that recognise most aspects of the collective land and resource rights of your community or people (e.g. only a few resources or marginal areas of your land are not recognised)
• Fully = The collective rights of your community or people to all lands, territories and resources that it has traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired is fully recognised in national legislation.
Please note that this question does not attempt to assess whether these rights are respected in practice (this is addressed in other questions).

Indigenous peoples’ collective right to the lands, territories and resources they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired are key provisions of the UNDRIP, and intrinsically linked to their collective right to self-determination, non-discrimination, cultural and spiritual integrity, and development as distinct peoples.
This question monitors States’ structural recognition and protection of indigenous peoples’ collective land rights.
Data sources: National legislation.
If collective land rights are recognized, please provide details on the relevant laws in the box, and add other relevant information too as you see fit.

This question monitors States’ implementation of a fair, independent, impartial, open and transparent process, with participation of indigenous peoples, to recognize and adjudicate their rights to lands, territories and resources in accordance with their customs and procedures.
The International Land Coalition summarizes the guidance provided by the UNDRIP and ILO Convention No. 169 on adequate procedures for States’ official recognition or registration of indigenous peoples’ land ownership:
Specific procedures to identify and demarcate indigenous peoples' land rights should be decided upon in consultation with indigenous and tribal peoples. At a minimum, they should contain the following components: (a) identification of the area and rights that correspond to the indigenous or tribal community, or group of communities, under consideration; (b) resolution of conflicts over competing uses and claims; (c) delimitation and demarcation; and (d) issuance of title deed or other appropriate document that clearly describes the nature of the right or rights in lands and resources.
Data sources: Ministries and government agencies mandated to oversee land administration (land reform / agriculture / forestry, etc.)
Please use the text box to provide references to additional information, as relevant.