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UN Special Rapporteur to give input on rights of natives
PENAMPANG: The country’s first indigenous Chief Justice Tan Sri Richard Malanjum may get a “tweak on the ear” when the United Nation Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples makes her official visit to Malaysia.
Senator Adrian Lasimbang said on Monday that Malanjum’s appointment to the top post of the judiciary has been one of the highest recognition to the vulnerable and minority indigenous communities in Malaysia.
He believes the Sabahan’s top judge’s appointment has also been one of the many positives under the new government of the country.
The right to food in South Africa: We need a manifesto for food justice
If the main purpose of government is to provide for the common security of its citizens, surely ensuring the security of the food system must be among its paramount duties.
The United Nations identifies the food crisis as one of the primary and overarching challenges facing the international community today. It is inter-related in complex ways to the current global economic crisis and the longer-term environmental and climate crises that stand before us.
LLA Holds Workshop on Land Administration Reforms, Systems
Monrovia – A three-day Experience and Lessons sharing workshop on a range of land tenure topics, including Land Administration Reforms, Customary Land Rights, Land Administration Systems, and Spatial Planning is being convened at a local hotel in Monrovia.
Brazil’s New Forest Code puts vast areas of protected Amazon forest at risk
- A still controversial 2012 update to the Brazilian Forest Code that reduced the area required for legal reserves on rural private properties is endangering more than 15 million hectares (57,915 square miles) of Amazon forest, an area roughly the size of the U.S. state of Georgia, according to a recent study.
Women land defenders face 'extreme criminalisation', added risks
In El Estor, Guatemala, women lead fight for land rights despite added risk of sexual violence and stigma.
El Estor, Guatemala - Since her teen years, Maria Magdalena Cuc Choc, now 39, has defended the natural resources of El Estor, a predominantly Mayan Q'eqchi' community on the western edge of Lake Izabal. The calm, blue water surrounded by lush forest cover is home to hundreds of species of freshwater fish, lizards, crocodiles, manatees and more.
50% of forest land right claims end in rejections
The claims are by tribal or pastoral communities seeking community rights over forest land they have inhabited for generations.
Myanmar land ownership law could displace millions of farmers
Under a land reformation act, millions of farmers across Myanmar could be forced from land they have tilled for generations. Many are unaware of the danger they face. Peter Yeung and Carlotta Dotto report from Yangon.
It took less than a day for Daw Oo Naing's entire banana plantation to be destroyed. A group of 21 men carrying long knives arrived quietly in the morning and made quick work of hacking down her 600 trees, which were still young with tender trunks.
Empowering women means taking a stand for environmental rights
As the Samburu fight for control over natural resources, Samburu women are demanding to be heard
The Samburu, a pastoralist indigenous tribe from the vast semi-arid and arid rangelands of Northern Kenya, face many of the same challenges as other indigenous communities around the world. They have few opportunities to influence or manage activities that affect their environment, and insufficient information and understanding of their entitlements and rights when large development and infrastructure projects come to do business on their lands.
Ohio city votes to give Lake Erie personhood status over algae blooms
New law will allow people of Toledo to act as legal guardians for Lake Erie, and polluters could be sued to pay for cleanup costs
Caribbean parliamentarians take action on climate change and disaster risk reduction
In recent years, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has been mobilizing parliaments and calling for action on climate change and risk reduction. Since 2009, the Union has organized parliamentary meetings at Conferences of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to increase parliamentary contributions to global negotiations.