Call for nominations for the 2017 Land for Life Award
31 January 2017
UNCCD is now inviting qualified nominators to nominate candidates to be considered for 2017 Land for Life Award.
There are 2, 707 content items of different types and languages related to indigenous peoples' land rights on the Land Portal.
UN Recognizes Ecuador, Bolivia for Support of Indigenous Rights
27 January 2017
Date: 27 January 2017
Source: Telesur
10 years after the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Ecuador and Bolivia are unique in their efforts to enshrine the charter into law.
Brazilian Decree Seen as Damaging to Indigenous Land Rights
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 indigenous lands will be decided by the Ministry of Justice rather than the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI), a government body set up to carry out policies relating to Brazil's 900,000 indigenous people.
Opportunity: Director of the International Land Coalition (ILC)
The International Land Coalition (ILC) is a global alliance of 300+ civil society and intergovernmental organisations, working together to put people at the centre of land governance. It does so through shifting power to the women, men and communities who live on and from the land.
Tribes that inspired Oscar-nominated Colombian film fear destruction within a generation
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Author: Matthew Ponsford
Picture: Andres Cordoba; A photograph taken during the filming of Colombia's Best Foreign Language Film nominee "Embrace of the Serpent" shows Antonio Bolivar as the protagonist Karamakate, the last surviving member of an Colombian Amazonian tribe.
Editing by Paola Totaro.
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Tribes that inspired Oscar-nominated Colombian film fear destruction within a generation - director
Ecuador’s leading environmental group fights to stop forced closure
NGO Acción Ecológica responds to the government’s attempt to close the organization down
Members of one of Latin America’s most well-known environmental organisations, Acción Ecológica, are fighting for their survival against a controversial attempt by Ecuador’s government to shut them down.
Philippines: Bugkalot tribe receives land titles
By: Leander C. Domingo, TMT
Date: January 2nd 2017
Source: The Manila Times
NAGTIPUNAN, Quirino: For the Bugkalot tribe, it is a blessed New Year receiving their Certificates of Land Ownership (CLOA) as Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) from Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano.
Bold land rules, domicile and investment policies mark Das’s second year in office
Ranchi: The state's NDA government headed by chief minister Raghubar Das will complete its second year on Wednesday. This is the state's first majority government.
Indigenous group ‘kidnaps’ Ecuadorian soldiers amid ongoing land dispute
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.