11 May 2021
A new report from the Oakland Institute, a policy think tank, reveals that several well-known pension funds, trusts and endowments are invested in a group of oil palm plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo accused of environmental and human rights abuses.
Plantations et Huileries du
10 May 2021
(New York) – Thai authorities should immediately investigate the killing of Somsak Onchuenjit, a lawyer and land rights activist, in Trang province in southern Thailand, Human Rights Watch said today. Successive Thai governments have failed to prevent or adequately respond to attacks against human
6 May 2021
PESHAWAR: Terror incidents reduced significantly in erstwhile Fata after merger with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The credit for improvement goes to the security forces and other institutions.
However, increasing land disputes are now troubling the peaceful environment of merged districts and dozens of
4 May 2021
Last week’s violence was some of the worst the border has seen, with more than 40 killed.
Credit photo: Wikimedia Commons
21 April 2021
Fear of China fueled the activism, though frustrations had accumulated over stagnant living conditions in the provinces.
Main photo: Hands off (David Trilling)
Kazakhstan is on the cusp of imposing a permanent ban on the sale and lease of agricultural land to foreigners. It is a rare victory for
20 April 2021
Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) has unanimously accepted an appeal by the Guarani Kaiowá Indigenous people and agreed to review the process around a past case that cancelled the demarcation of their Indigenous territory.
The Guarani Kaiowá’s decades-long fight for land rights to their
15 April 2021
President Rodrigo Duterte has lifted a ban on issuing licenses for new mining operations in the Philippines, marking an about-face from a previous anti-mining stance that saw him ban open-pit mining in 2017 and close or suspend 26 mining operations for environmental violations.
The government says
26 March 2021
Kyrgyzstan has received swathes of land while granting Uzbeks control over irrigation resources.
(Photo: Kamchybek Tashiyev in Tashkent. Credit: Kyrgyz government)
Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have agreed on a treaty that should, its signatories hope, spell an end to the recurrent territorial
25 March 2021
The Sri Lankan army and forestry department has continued its ban on Tamil villagers of North Nedungeeni Vedivaithakal in Vavuniya from entering the village.
Although residents in the area have proof of their lands, the army has set up camp in the village and continues to prevent people from
25 February 2021
The border barrier will decrease the number of cross-border attacks, but more needs to be done to secure the region.
(main photo: A view of the border fence outside the Kitton outpost on the border with Afghanistan in North Waziristan, Pakistan October 18, 2017 [Caren Firouz/Reuters])
2 January 2021
Main photo: Koh Kong province, Cambodia. Prum Khoem, 45, says he used to have 10 hectares of land before it was taken. Photograph: Enric Català/The Guardian
Tate & Lyle has been accused of betraying 200 families in Cambodia who have fought for years to secure compensation for land they say was
29 December 2020
The people of the village of Aasikulam, Vavuniya stressed the hardships caused by the Sri Lankan Forest Department seizing their land earlier this month, with around 50 families stating they had been affected.
One of the villagers said, “We depend on the agriculture to maintain our livelihoods