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Malaysia-EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) still far from delivering

Press release announcing the launch of a report by the Network of Indigenous Peoples and Non-Governmental Organisations on Forest Issues (JOANGOHutan). It details that the on-going negotiations between Malaysia and the European Union (EU) to enter into a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) on the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) has virtually no respect for indigenous peoples’ rights, as defined in law and upheld by the Malaysian courts. 

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