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 deforestation, its makers said.
By: Alisa Tang
Date: May 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Villagers from northeast Thailand traveled to Bangkok on Tuesday to demand that police and human rights groups investigate the disappearance of a prominent land rights activist who went missing last month.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: May 4th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brazil should speed up its program to grant small farmers formal land ownership to slow down the rate of logging and deforestation, a leading scientist said.
By: Sumit Chaturvedi
Date: May 4th 2016
Source: F. India / Indiaspend.org
Almost three decades ago in 1990, Radheshyam, 49, was given half an acre of farm land free, taken away from a landlord as part of what was then a 40-year-old state law that allows distribution of such land to the poor.
By: Edward Loure and Fred Nelson
Date: April 27th 2016
Source: The Guardian
By: Rebecca Myles
Date: April 22nd 2016
Source: RT
Representatives from 155 countries are in New York to sign a climate-change agreement to limit the rise in global temperatures. Forest-dwelling indigenous peoples claim the pact ignores them and that they face assaults when trying to protect their land.
By: Matthew Ponsford
Date: April 24th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A year after the deadly earthquake in Nepal, thousands of people, especially women, are being deprived of funds to rebuild because they do not own land or cannot prove they owned the land where they lived, Oxfam said on Friday.
By: Emmanuel Ntirenganya
Date: April 19th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The New Times
Women activists have called for policy changes to allow people jointly owning a piece of land that is less than an hectare in size to use it as they please.
By: Swati Ramanathan
Date: April 8th 2016
Source: Live Mint
OPINION
By: Nicolás Ríos
Date: March 30th 2016
Source: Vice News
Sonia Navarrete, the owner of a small forestry business in Chile, was on her way home one day in June 2015 when she and her husband were ambushed by a group of five hooded men. The attackers tied them up and held them captive for an hour, after which they burned the couple's house to the ground.
By: Fidelis E. Satriastanti
Date: March 24th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
JAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indonesia's government is under pressure to boost protection for indigenous peoples' rights, after a state-led inquiry identified 40 cases in which they were violated, prompting calls for the president to set up a task force to deal with the problem.
