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By: Silvia Ceriani
Date: March 9th 2016
Source: Slowfood.com
Just a few days after the murder of Berta Cáceres, the Honduran activist fighting for the rights of indigenous peoples, we came across the latest report from Survival International, succinctly entitled Progress Can Kill. It analyzes the…
By: Isis Almeida
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Bloomberg Business
Lower social status mean women get less food in many countries
Women are responsible for more than 50% of global food output
Women account for 70 percent of the world’s hungry even as they produce more than half of the…
By: Bethany Augliere
Date: March 11th 2016
Source: Stanford News
A computer simulation shows that carefully designing government interactions with rural indigenous people is critical for protecting the sustainability of people, wildlife and the land.
People have thrived deep within the Amazon…
By: Holly Young
Date: March 11th 2016
Source: The Guardian
Join an expert panel on Thursday 17 March, 1-3pm GMT to discuss how to recognise the rights of the world’s indigenous people
In the last fortnight two deaths have brought the challenges facing indigenous people across the world into…
Date: March 13th 2016
Source: DNA India
Can land rights for women drive down child marriage and domestic violence?
"Yes and more", says an international group of land and property rights specialists who are due in Washington this week to discuss how improved land management can reduce global…
By: Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
After years of struggle, the nations of the world finally adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of indigenous peoples in 2007, recognising the moral…
By: Joan Clos
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: Citiscope
It’s time to emphasize implementation, the head of the Habitat III conference says.
On the sidelines of last week’s Habitat III thematic meeting on financing the New Urban Agenda, Habitat III Secretary-General Joan Clos sat down with…
By: Philippa de Boissière and Sian Cowman
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
These mega-projects expropriate land, spoil environments, and pollute democracies. Berta Cáceres gave her life resisting them.
Early in the morning of March 3, Berta Cáceres was assassinated as she…
By: Paola Totaro
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
WASHINGTON, March 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Uganda's constitution of 1995 is known worldwide for pioneering and gender-sensitive provisions to protect women and their rights.
However the reality on the ground,…
By: Devex Editor
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: Devex.com
This week in Washington, D.C., the World Bank is hosting its Annual Conference on Land and Poverty, a professional meeting that has swelled considerably in the past five years. Attendee numbers have expanded to a downright packed 1,200…
By: Paola Totaro
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One in five people worldwide report having paid a bribe for land, with rates even higher in sub-Saharan Africa where women say they are forced to trade sex for property rights,…
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: March 17th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO, March 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women account for nearly half of the developing world's farmers, yet they own far less land than men despite growing evidence that increasing female land ownership can…