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Campaign Update– Mexico: Injunction filed to halt illegal exploration drilling in Wirikuta
Against a backdrop of heightened tensions in the region and other worrisome developments, Wixarika leaders have filed an injunction to stop the illegal drilling in exploration for gold and silver in their ancestral sacred lands of Wirikuta.
Cambodia: Evictees, Sugar Company Reach Deal at Last
By: Sek Odom
Date: August 12th 2016
Source: Cambodia Daily
Representatives of evicted families and a sugarcane plantation owned by a prominent CPP senator announced an agreement on Thursday that provides compensation ranging from $500 to $5,000 to eligible villagers after a five-year battle over land.
The deal was meant to put an end to claims of land-grabbing against Senator Ly Yong Phat’s Phnom Penh Sugar Company.
Brazil's most isolated indigenous tribes face "annihilation" - campaigners
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: April 19th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO, April 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous tribes in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, who have had little or no contact with the outside world, are facing "annihilation" from illegal loggers, ranchers and miners who want their land, a campaign group said on Tuesday.
The Farmer Calling for Equal Land Rights for Women in Malawi
Date: August 26, 2016
Source: Action Aid press release
In Malawi, women’s land rights are often governed by customary laws, which are unwritten and lead to the marginalisation of women. Incredibly, women own just 1% of Africa’s land. In the village of Chikojo in Malawi, Maureen Adson is taking a stand.
Find out how you can support women like Maureen here!
Land reform failures: Only 5% of India’s farmers control 32% farmland
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.
Habitat III agenda must address human rights and the needs of rural people
By: Shivani Chaudhry
Date: September 6th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
In order to ensure that ‘no one is left behind,’ the Habitat III outcome document must be grounded in a human rights approach.
Ethiopia: Land, Water Grabs Devastate Communities
OP-ED: Cambodia must drop phony charges against women land rights activists
By:Mu Sochua
Date:20 September 2016
Source: Borderless
Monday’ sentencing of four women land rights activists by a Phnom Penh Court does not bode well for the Cambodian government, which is already being closely eyed by the international community for its ongoing politically motivated crackdowns against critics and political opponents.
Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas
Source:
JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE
EUROPEAN SOIL DATA CENTRE (ESDAC)
Nairobi on 25 May 2016
New atlas illustrates global soil biodiversity and threats to soil organisms