Position Title: Chief of Advocacy and Communications
Status: Regular, Full Time
Location: Washington, DC
Classification: Exempt (Not Eligible for Overtime Pay)
Date: July 2016
By: Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Date: August 17th 2016
Source: Human Rights Watch
Enact Proposed Law to Protect Rural Communities
The 17th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty took place from 14 to 18 March 2016 in Washington DC. Over 1,400 government officials, practitioners, academics and civil society representatives gathered at World Bank headquarters, as well as some representatives of the private sector.
The mainland’s 900 million farmers will be on the lookout for rural land use reforms after a signal from the finance minister that change could be in the wind.
But the complexity of the issue meant any changes would not be direct or fast in coming, analysts said.
In an article published in
Source: Climate News Network
Author: Jan Rocha
Ensuring forest people’s land rights in the Amazon region is a cheap and effective way of cutting both carbon emissions and deforestation, researchers say—but the obstacles are formidable.
Date: February 24th 2016
Source: Sri Lanka Guardian
Farmers, adivasis and landless rural workers to assemble at Jantar Mantar
By: Sebastien Malo
Date: May 12th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new map shows areas occupied by indigenous people in Central America, using previously untapped native knowledge, that could help claims by local tribes to ancestral land amid rapid
By: Ray Mwareya
Date: 5 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Although the law gives men and women equal property rights, the reality is very different in eastern Mozambique, one of the country's poorest regions.
In the Chikwidzire district of Manica province, which borders Zimbabwe
The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) is a global coalition that supports the developing world’s Indigenous Peoples and local communities to secure their rights to own, control and benefit from the natural resources they have depended on for generations.
By: Helen Tugendhat, Forest Peoples Programme
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: Brettonwoods Project
World Bank grants waiver of indigenous peoples policy for Tanzania project
US abstains from vote on project waiver
Indigenous peoples highlight lack of consent, question protection of
Goma, 23 November 2016 – UN-Habitat, in close collaboration with the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has launched a USD 12 million land programme that seeks to promote peace and stability.