24 March 2017
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Only 30% of the world’s population has a legally registered title to their land.
As discussed at the Land and Poverty Conference 2017, secure land rights are important for reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity at the country, community, and family levels.
The World
31 January 2017
The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) is seeking an Executive Director to take up appointment as soon as possible, and invites applications from suitably qualified candidates.
By: Kapaeeng Foundation
Date: February 8th 2016
Source: Asian Indigenous Peoples Pact
By: Shondiin Silversmith
Date: August 3rd 2016
Source: PRI.org
For the first time in history, Taiwan’s government has apologized to the indigenous people of the island for generations of abuse.
The country’s President Tsai Ing-wen gave an official apology this week outside her office building
Success is rare among indigenous peoples' struggles for land rights in Guatemala. But the nearly 300 Poqomchi' Maya families that make up the Primavera communities in the department of Alta Verapaz have just won a significant victory.
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
By: Callistasia Anggun Wijaya
Date: January 27th 2016
Source: Jakarta Post
The criminalization and discrimination of indigenous people by the government and other parties has worsened, especially because no regulation protects their rights, says the Alliance of Indigenous People (AMAN).
Source: The Guardian
Author: Helen Davidson
The Land Rights Act is “fast asleep”, and it continues to be easy for non-Indigenous people and groups to claim a share of Aboriginal land, the Gumatj leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu has said.
Global leaders must acknowledge that land and forests owned and managed by local communities are more likely to prevent deforestation and deliver greater carbon storage
In my native Colombia, the cloud forests of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta have been described as holding the most important
An indigenous rights issue has put Costa Rica’s much-vaunted human rights record to the test as the country struggles to protect members of the Bribrí and Teribe indigenous communities from non-indigenous people who have forcibly, and at times violently, removed them from indigenous ancestral lands
Several indigenous leaders from Canada are in Paris for the COP21 talks as part of the official delegation, bringing Native concerns directly to world leaders.
Among them are Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde, AFN Northwest Territories Regional Chief Bill Erasmus and
On March 2nd, more than 300 organizations and communities from around the world will launch the Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights.