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What I am seeing now feels different. Not in its scale — the sector has faced serious moments before — but in its texture. The pressure is coming from multiple directions at once and targeting something more fundamental than funding or political will. It is targeting the language itself.
The terms that the rights-based sector spent decades building into the shared vocabulary of accountability are being actively removed from the frameworks that gave them force.
There is a conversation that has been happening for decades in the world of climate, conservation, and Indigenous rights — and it has largely been happening in the wrong rooms.
NGOs and Indigenous-led organisations understand the terrain, the politics, and the long arc of what change actually requires. Businesses have resources and a growing recognition that how they operate is not sustainable. These two worlds rarely meet. And when they do, the conversation often breaks down