By Chris Arsenault
Date: March 18th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As recession bites and land disputes hit Brazil's agricultural heartland, indigenous people face land grabs and assaults by violent gangs, said Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the U.N.'s
By: Pisey Sem and Heng Sun
Date: August 16th 2016
Source: Radio Free Asia
A pair of prominent land-rights activists are still being held by Cambodian authorities for their part in a “Black Monday” protest in Boeung Kak village that included headless dummies symbolizing the “brainlessness” of the
Just after nine o’clock on a Tuesday morning in June, an environmental activist named Bill Kayong was shot and killed while sitting in his pickup truck, waiting for a traffic light to change in the Malaysian city of Miri, on the island of Borneo. Kayong had been working with a group of villagers
By: Andrea Reyes Blanco and Tim Shenk
Date: April 5th 2016
Source: TeleSUR
OPINION & ANALYSIS
Berta Caceres' killing was a symptom, not an isolated incident.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 5th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of protesters have occupied a government office in Brazil's capital demanding farmland for 120,000 landless families and other reforms, one of the country's
By: Lisa Nikolau
Date: December 21st 2016
Source: Humanosphere
An indigenous group in northeast Ecuador said it has detained 11 government soldiers who were traveling through its territory in a canoe amid an ongoing dispute with the government over land rights.
Video of the WFAL 2016 closing ceremony, Valencia (Spain)
By: Phnom Penh newsroom
Date: September 19th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Four women land rights activists were sentenced to six months in prison by a court in Cambodia on Monday for insulting and obstructing public officials during a 2011 violent land rights protest.
Seizure of land
By: Rubeena Mahato
Date: February 5th 2016
Source: Nepali Times
Gains of Nepal’s land rights movement has come not from bloodshed and war, but from a non-violent social movement.
In the larger scheme of things, the petty games that politicians play to keep themselves relevant should not matter
Date: May 17th 2016
Source: Forest Peoples Programme
Indigenous activists under threat
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: October 4th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
"If this is how the state is handling evidence in the case, then how can we trust their final outcome?"
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.