Locally, nationally, and around the world, we support people to make their communities more sustainable and fairer and to protect the environment. Globally, our expertise influences economic, social and environmental policy and practice, enabling us to create change within communities.


Here are some ways in which Middlesex advanced sustainability of communities and the environment this year:


Contributing to United Nations-commissioned research on the rights of indigenous peoples


Middlesex has contributed to United Nations’ (UN) recommendations to advance the rights of indigenous peoples around the world.


Indigenous cultures are under threat of extinction because of the way development is being imposed on them, destroying their land and way of life. Despite some significant progress, challenges to indigenous peoples’ rights to lands, territories and resources remain enormous, with many indigenous peoples still not recognised by national governments.


These were some of the key findings of our analysis, which we contributed to the UN’s ‘State of the World’s indigenous People: Rights to Lands, Territories and Resources’ report.


As well as looking at the progresses being made, the report details obstacles that continue to get in the way of realising indigenous peoples’ rights. This includes governments imposing development projects on their land, as much of the world’s remaining mineral and forest resources, rivers, fossil fuels and sources of renewable energy are found in or around indigenous peoples’ territories. Indigenous peoples are enduring ongoing land grabbing, dispossession and displacement.


Our work helped inform a series of recommendations for a way forward. These include: governments collecting more data on indigenous identity through census and household surveys; and including indigenous peoples’ land rights when reporting on the UN Sustainable Development Goals – the global goals designed to be a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all.


Dr Cathal Doyle, a Middlesex Senior Lecturer in Law who worked on the UN report, has published books, articles and reports on the rights of indigenous peoples. He’s a founding member of the European Network on Indigenous Peoples and is on the board of Forest Peoples Programme and the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs.


Top left: Photo: gryffyn m on Unsplash


Bottom left: Apu (community leader) Aurelio Chino observing what remained of sacred lake Shansho-cocha in the Peruvian Amazon after the oil company Pluspetrol, “remediated it” and the lake disappeared.


(Photo courtesy: Stefan Kisler and the Indigenous Federation of Quechua people of the Pastaza river basin, FEDIQUEP)


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Financial Statements 2020/21


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