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Mas com isso a gente começou duas vezes no meio do mato : memórias dos desapropriados do Parque Nacional do Iguaçu (Oeste do Paraná, 1970-2009)

Reports & Research
Dezembro, 2010
Brasil
Argentina

Esta investigación analiza el proceso histórico de expropriación de los colonos agricultores que vivian dentro del Parque Nacional de Iguazú (PNI) en el Oeste de Paraná, que se produjo en la década de 1970. En este sentido, investiga las memórias y dinámicas socioculturales relacionados con la institución del parque como una zona de protección ambiental.

Indigenous people are losing their livelihood

Journal Articles & Books
Dezembro, 2009
Global

In many Asian, African, and South American nations, indigenous people are being driven from their homes: Government authorities are leasing hundreds of thousands of hectares of land belonging to indigenous people who only in the rarest of cases possess deeds to the land that are recognised by the authorities. Although in many cases their ancestors have lived on the land for centuries, these rights were never recorded in the land registries. The way of life and the livelihood of many indigenous peoples are severely threatened by their land being sold off.

Historia de un despojo y de un litigio agrario: el caso de San José de Gracia y la presa Calles

Journal Articles & Books
Dezembro, 2009
México

Lo presente artículo trata de la cuestión de la disputa de tierras por parte de los indios deSan José de Gracia, desde el embate con el propietario de la Hacienda de Paredes, biencomo, posteriormente, hasta el inundamento de las tierras en consecuencia de la construcciónde la presa Calles. El inundamento trajo como consecuencia la salida de los indiosde su comunidad por medio de la expropiación. Los indios jamás recibieron indemnizacióny fueron dejados a su propia suerte.

Dispute Resolution in China: Patterns, Causes, and Prognosis

Reports & Research
Novembro, 2009
China

Since the reform era began in 1978, there have been significant changes in the nature and incidence of disputes, conflicts, and social disturbances, as well as the mechanisms for addressing them. As with economic and governance reforms, the government has adopted a pragmatic, problem-solving approach as it has attempted to meet the broad and, at times, conflicting goals of justice and efficiency while maintaining sociopolitical stability and rapid economic growth.

IWGIA Urgent Alert concerning Gross Human Rights abuses towards Pastoralists in Loliondo, Ngorongoro district in Tanzania

Policy Papers & Briefs
Julho, 2009
Tanzania

This urgent alert is based on the forceful evictions of Maasai pastoralists from their homes and grazing lands in Loliondo Division, Ngorongoro District in Northern Tanzania and the gross human rights violations that are being committed. 


The eviction operation started on the 4th July 2009 and was conducted by the notorious riot police, the Field Force Unit, with assistance of private guards from the Otterlo Business Cooperation (OBC). They entered the villages by shooting in the air and using teargas before pouring petrol on the Maasai homes and setting them on fire.

IWGIA Urgent Alert

Policy Papers & Briefs
Janeiro, 2009
Tanzania

IWGIA has recently been informed by local partners in Tanzania that a government operation aimed at forcefully removing pastoralists from the Kilosa district in the Morogoro Region in southern Tanzania started on the 29.1.2009. The Tanzanian government wants to remove all pastoralists from Kilosa district and, according to some sources, the whole of Morogoro Region, and force them to other areas of Tanzania. Such areas have though, according to IWGIA local partners as yet not been specified, and the affected families do not know where to go to.

Bomba de Tiempo

Journal Articles & Books
Outubro, 2008
Colômbia
Equador

En medio de un clima de tensión social, la Minga de Resistencia Indígena inició el lunes una marcha hacia Cali. Se trata de un movimiento legítimo que busca respuesta a problemas cuya solución ha sido largamente aplazada. Todos coinciden en que el problema de la tierra y la violación de sus derechos humanos no es nueva, pero que ha sido agravada por el conflicto armado, que no solo ha contribuido al debilitamiento de las organizaciones, sino a la pérdida de tierras, cuya consecuencia es la reducción de sus territorios.

The role of coercive measures in forced migration/internal displacement in Burma/Myanmar

Reports & Research
Março, 2008
Myanmar

Conclusion: "Most relevant reports and surveys I have been able to access state essentially that people from all parts of Burma leave home either in obedience to a direct relocation order from the military or civil authorities or as a result of a process whereby coercive measures imposed by the authorities play a major role in forcing down household incomes to the point where the family cannot survive. At this point, leaving home may seem to be the only option.

Forced migration/internal displacement in Burma - with an emphasis on government-controlled areas

Reports & Research
Abril, 2007
Myanmar

This report is a preliminary exploration of forced migration/internal displacement in Burma/Myanmar in two main areas. The first is the status in terms of international standards, specifically those embodied in the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, of the people who leave home not because of conflict or relocation orders, but as a result of a range of coercive measures which drive down incomes to the point that the household economy collapses and people have no choice but to leave home.