The Sustainable Development Goals are grounded in a vision that aims to transform our world. They aspire to build a world free of poverty, hunger and disease, in which every woman and every girl enjoys full gender equality, where the environment is protected and where all people have access to quality education and decent work.

The right to food entitles every person to an economic, political, and social environment that will allow them to achieve food security in dignity through their own means.The right to food is an important tool for indigenous peoples to bring about real change in their lives and to negotiate power structures.

This brief discussed the importance of Indigenous peoples’ perspective and their full and effective participation in policy and decision-making to be seen as instrumental in breaking the cycle of discrimination and exclusion.

This briefing paper highlights the specific conditions of indigenous women, who comprise a major segment of indigenous communities where development projects are being implemented in India, Indonesia and Cambodia.

This brief focuses on IP protection of traditional medical knowledge and does not deal specifically with associated genetic resources.

Work on the relationship between IP, traditional knowledge (TK) and genetic resources (GRs) is more recent, and stems from concerns regarding the role that IP protection should play in achieving global policy objectives as varied as the conservation of biodiversity (as enshrined in the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1992), food security, free and fair trade, climate change and sustainable development.

An investigation was carried out among the Khasi tribe residing nearby the Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary, Meghalaya to document the plants and their traditional uses in the area.

The present work is an attempt to assemble information related to various plants and practices being used as traditional medicine for treating animal bites by the tribes of India. The review was undertaken by categorizing research articles focusing on tribes residing in different geographical zones of India (seven zones for the current purpose) and their treatment pattern involving usage of plants for various types of animal bites.

Meghalaya has a rich cultural influence of natives of Jaintia, Garo and Khasi regions and is set between China and India (INDIAN CULTURE, 2017). As such, Meghalaya is one of the least studied areas and is often overlooked while discussing the Indian culture as a whole. Regardless, the cultural heritage of Meghalaya is undeniable due to the convergence of tribal traditions and multicultural linguistics that are reflected in its folklore and storytelling.

This study was carried out to undertake literature review of malaria in Meghalaya, with the goal of summarizing what is known about malaria epidemiology, vectors, and prevention methods in the state; and second, to undertake an analysis of statewide malaria epidemiology data from 2015-2017 to evaluate the effect of the introduction of LLINs.