20 January 2017
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil has announced changes to the procedure for demarcating indigenous lands in a move campaign groups fear will weaken the land rights of communities facing mounting pressure from illegal logging and big agricultural operations.
Under the decree, demarcation of
By: Johnston Keti
Date: March 28th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
Residents of Kirimon in Samburu Central Sub-County have demonstrated over what they say is illegal grabbing of 10,000 acres of public land meant to benefit their community.
The angry residents accused the Samburu County
By Sally Hayden
Date: August 24th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ethiopian silver medalist Feyisa Lilesa, who did not return home after staging a protest against his government at the Rio Olympics, said on Thursday he feared for his life if he went
By: Rina Chandran
Date: 12 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
The battle over land and resources turned bloodier in the past year with treble the number of land rights defenders killed, according to a human rights group that fears the violence will get even worse.
By: Ryan Dagur
Date: April 7th 2016
Source: UCA News
'We have the right to cultivate our own property,' protester says
Nearly 200 indigenous people in Indonesia's predominantly Catholic East Nusa Tenggara province are staging a sit-in protest to regain calling for the return of their ancestral
By: Holly Miller
Date: September 16th 2016
Source: Women's Agenda
Imagine being told you couldn’t own something because you’re a woman. Being kicked from your land and your home for not being a man.
By: Sebastien Malo
Date: December 30th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations criticized the government of Ecuador on Friday for ordering the closure of a land rights advocacy group that supports an indigenous community protesting mining
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: April 29th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Land rights campaigners and environmentalists are facing growing violence and intimidation in Brazil, with at least six activists killed so far this year, a human rights
Date: 27 September 2016
Source: National Indigenous Time
There were continuing and relentless attempts to undermine native title in WA’s Kimberley region, a new Oxfam global report pushing for the land rights of Indigenous peoples across the world has found.
The Custodians of our Land, Defenders of
By: APA
Date: February 12th 2016
Source: Star Africa.com
A coalition of civil society activists have condemned the verdict against a group of land rights activists jailed last week after confrontation with a French agri-business firm over land ownership.
The men, who are part of the Malen Land
Authors: Sutharee Wannasiri & Kingsley Abbott
Date: June 5th, 2016
Source: Bangkok Post
Late in the evening of May 15, 2014, more than 100 men, most of them armed and wearing black masks, stormed a small village in Loei province and assaulted more than a dozen men and women who opposed a
By: Special Correspondent
Date: October 10th 2016
Source: The Hindu
Swabhimani Samavesha seeks abolition of ‘pankti bheda’ in Udupi Mutts
Social activist and ‘Chalo Una’ organiser Jignesh Mevani on Sunday said that the ‘Swabhimani Sangharsha Samavesha’ should become the voice of the oppressed