24 November 2017
The blockchain technology was first developed for peer-to-peer currency transactions. Innovators are now seeking to use the technology to update and secure the land records in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Known as disruptive technology that no one can control and hegemonise, blockchain is a
14 November 2017
More than 100 families in Takeo province have been given back their land after a dispute with the Sun Hour company and an individual landholder.
The move follows protests and in front of the Ministry of Land Management as families asked the government to resolve their problems.
The 137 families
7 November 2017
Members of the Samburu community who were living on a disputed land previously owned by retired President Daniel Moi have been slapped with a Sh11.8 million invoice by a Nairobi-based law firm.
Kaplan and Stratton Advocates demanded the money after an eight-year court battle in a case in
7 November 2017
Brazilian president Michel Temer has twice survived National Congress votes to initiate impeachment against him on extensive corruption charges.
Temer did so by selling out the environment, particularly the Amazon, to the ruralists who largely control the assembly.
6 November 2017
A busload of indigenous leaders have been crossing Europe to highlight their cause before the start of UN climate talks in Bonn
Of the many thousands of participants at the Bonn climate conferencewhich begins on 6 November, there will arguably be none who come with as much hope, courage and anger
6 November 2017
A Myanmar land rights activist who challenged illegal land grabs in northern Shan State was beaten to death this week by a mob of some 20 people, a fellow unionist told RFA’s Myanmar Service on Thursday.
Htay Aung, a member of the National Farmer’s Union was attacked by a mob on Wednesday in
29 October 2017
The 50-year civil war is over but, in the Cauca Valley, indigenous communities are on frontline of fight against drug gangs, riot police and deforestation
A green-and-red flag flies over a cluster of bamboo and tarpaulin tents on the frontline of an increasingly deadly struggle for land and the
27 October 2017
Santiago Maldonado was last seen alive in public in Patagonia on August 1 at a protest for the land rights of the Mapuche, a group of indigenous peoples from Chile and Argentina. Various witnesses recount seeing him being detained by military police and loaded into a van during a raid by state
18 October 2017
The pioneers of the Aboriginal land rights movement in the Kimberley are working off a faded photograph to try to identify people who took part in the Noonkanbah land rights protests, which galvanised Indigenous resistance in the region almost 40 years ago.
The iconic image was taken in 1978 and
18 October 2017
The community council in the area has repeatedly denounced human rights violations against the Afro-Colombian, Mestizo and Indigenous peasants in the region.
A Colombian social leader, Jose Jair Cortes, was murdered in a rural area of Tumaco municipality located in the southwest department of
12 October 2017
Deaths of environmental activists locked in conflict with mining, logging and agricultural companies across three continents has passed 150
• Interactive: recording the deaths of environmental activists around the world
The number of people killed this year while defending their community’s land,
9 October 2017
At least six people have been killed and over 50 injured during clashes between farmers and security forces in the southwestern municipality of Tumaco.
Versions of the incident that occurred on the morning of October 5 vary considerably with civil society organisations accusing police of opening