Protecting Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples Worldwide

Work with the Rights and Resources Initiative

There are millions of Indigenous People living in forests and drylands who hold customary rights to their land. But many times these customary rights are not recognized by a country’s legal system, and the land they and their families have lived off of for centuries is taken away. The Rights and Resources Initiative is a group working to secure the land rights of Indigenous Peoples all over the world.

Burness created a social media campaign on Facebook to count down to a key land rights conference in Interlaken, Switzerland. These ads raised awareness around the conference and its messages.

Burness also filmed several interviews with participants of the conference in Interlaken and edited a video mash-up of the themes that were discussed. The video has been viewed over 13,000 times.