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Forest Peoples Programme

NGO or non-profit · Human rights & humanitarian · HQ: United Kingdom · Transparency Register entry

As of 8 October 2026, Forest Peoples Programme appears in 4 declared MEP meetings (4 different MEPs), most often with Socialists & Democrats.

4
declared meetings
with current MEPs
4
MEPs met
–
lobbying spend
none reported in the Register
1.2
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“Mission Forest Peoples Programme supports the rights of peoples who live in forests and depend on them for their livelihoods. We work to create political space for forest peoples to secure their rights, control their lands and decide their own futures.”

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“Strategic Approaches •Supporting and advancing the exercise of self-determination by indigenous and forest peoples by strengthening community governance, mobilisation and representation, and the creation and use of political spaces where indigenous and forest peoples' voices can be heard. •Ensuring access to justice by developing and using accountability and redress mechanisms in both public and private institutions that are directly accessible to indigenous and forest peoples and their communities. •Partnered advocacy towards legal and policy reform and the development of best practice and standards consistent with indigenous and forest peoples' rights in international law.”

Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 4 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group. Every meeting was with a single group.

Socialists & Democrats4100%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2024–2024. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (4 in 2024). All meetings were in one calendar year.

2024
4

Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.

The MEPs they meet most

Robert Biedroń
1 meeting · S&D
César Luena
1 meeting · S&D
Nacho Sánchez Amor
1 meeting · S&D
Kathleen van Brempt
1 meeting · S&D

The 4 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
27 Nov 2024César LuenaViolations of Human Rights of Indigenous Communities
26 Nov 2024Kathleen van BremptHuman rights in trade policy
26 Nov 2024Nacho Sánchez AmorProtection of the rights of indigenous and forest peoples
26 Nov 2024Robert BiedrońImpact of deforestation on indigenous peoples

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