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The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation announced that its distinguished panel of independent international jurors has selected Landesa, a Seattle-based land rights organization, as the recipient of the largest humanitarian prize in the world – the Hilton Humanitarian Prize. As the 2015 Hilton Humanitarian…
The farmer and the cowman, the musical Oklahoma tells us, should be friends. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, a remarkable young African woman who campaigns for land rights for her pastoralist Mbororo people, would agree.
She believes grazing and cultivating communities can benefit each other, in a…
We reported recently on how the land rights group Landesa won the Hilton Humanitarian Prize, which is given annually to a “a nonprofit organization doing extraordinary work to reduce human suffering.” Landesa received the latest award of $2 million in unrestricted funding.
Why did land rights…
The Indira Gandhi award for national integration has been awarded to Gandhian Rajagopal P V., founder and President of Ekta Parishad, a federation of 11,000 community based organizations and thousands of individual membersworking for the land and livelihood rights of India’s most marginalized…
29 October by Tiago Stichelmans
Instead of taking suggestions on board from CSOs or its own monitoring bodies, the World Bank continues to push its agenda at the expense of small-scale farmers. In essence, this makes it easier for foreign investors, at the potential cost of local farmers.
This week…
The CPLP has initiated the creation of common draft guidelines to support Family Farming. These guidelines will identify priority issues and will support the Member States` effort to develop a sustainable agriculture to combat hunger and poverty efficiently. The Zero Draft is already available…
A broad partnership of indigenous coalitions and land rights and research organizations has launched LandMark, the first online, interactive global platform to map lands collectively held and used by Indigenous Peoples and communities. The platform was created to fill a critical gap in indigenous…
As competition for valuable natural resources intensifies, the battle over land, forests and water is becoming ever more deadly. Global Witness research has revealed that every week at least two people are killed defending their land from environmental destruction. These people are dying defending…
Organizational profile
The Land Portal foundation is a non-profit organization headquartered in Groningen, the Netherlands.
Launched in March 2011 as a global hub for access land information the Land Portal allows for the collection, sourcing, and searching of otherwise fragmented and inaccessible…
Press Release FIDH, 30 November 2015
COP21 will take place in Paris from 30 November to 11 December. The 147 heads of state and of government have the future of our planet in their hands. They must come up with a binding agreement that limits global warming and its dramatic impacts on human rights…
Press Release FIDH, 30 November 2015
COP21 will take place in Paris from 30 November to 11 December. The 147 heads of state and of government have the future of our planet in their hands. They must come up with a binding agreement that limits global warming and its dramatic impacts on human rights…
Press Release FIDH, 30 November 2015
COP21 will take place in Paris from 30 November to 11 December. The 147 heads of state and of government have the future of our planet in their hands. They must come up with a binding agreement that limits global warming and its dramatic impacts on human rights…