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
Date: March 3rd 2016
Source: TeleSUR
Several unknown assailants broke into Caceres' home early Thursday and killed her. She was a prominent Indigenous and social movement leader.
Berta Caceres, the coordinator and co-founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras or COPIHN, was killed
Source: South China Morning Post
Author: Raissa Robles
Activists claim current laws governing mining and the rights of indigenous people contain gaping loopholes that firms exploit.
When 18-year-old Michelle Campos last saw her father, Dionel, they had little time to chat. He was busy with an
By: Jean d'Amour Mbonyinshuti
Date: October 12th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The New Times
Rwandan rural women, together with their counterparts from various countries on the continent, will today convene at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in an effort to advocate for unrestricted
By: Kann Vicheika
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: VOA Khmer
The protesters from six villages in Koh Kong’s Sre Ambel and Botum Sakor districts claim that Koh Kong Sugar and Koh Kong Plantation encroached on their farmland.