Kenya's Growing Carbon Market Is a Setback for Indigenous Land Rights - Earth Island Institute To reach the forest, Meikobi had to cross Olokirkirai river, which was raging due to the heavy rains. A bridge across the river consisted of three poles laid across it. Meikobi managed to cross to the other side and filled...

Kenya's Growing Carbon Market Is a Setback for Indigenous Land Rights - Earth Island Institute
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Deforestation Threatens Public Health. Securing Indigenous Land Rights Can Help, Researchers Find Indigenous territories are a crucial bulwark against the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. A new peer-reviewed study shows they also safeguard the health of millions living there. The study, published Thursday in the journal Communications Earth and Environment, examined the...

Deforestation Threatens Public Health. Securing Indigenous Land Rights Can Help, Researchers Find
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Aboriginal leaders proud of push for prosperity, 50 years since land rights event ...

Aboriginal leaders proud of push for prosperity, 50 years since land rights event
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The Wave Hill Walk Off: How it sparked a land rights movement On 23 August 1966, Gurindji Elder Vincent Lingiari led more than 200 Indigenous workers and their families in a walk-off from Wave Hill cattle station, sparking one of the most powerful land rights movements in Australian history. It was a...

The Wave Hill Walk Off: How it sparked a land rights movement
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Brazil: Protect Small-Scale Farmers' Land Rights in the Amazon Click to expand Image Trucks carrying illegally harvested logs exit the Terra Nossa settlement, September 30, 2019. © 2019 Fernando Martinho/Repórter Brasil (São Paulo) – Brazil’s agrarian federal agency should reject a proposal to downsize a sustainable settlement in a...

Brazil: Protect Small-Scale Farmers' Land Rights in the Amazon
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Through a Colonial Lens: How Sarawak Uses 1950s Aerial Photos to Deny Land Rights An aerial photograph taken during the British colonial period near Ba Main, Sarawak. (Australian War Memorial) Much has changed in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo since 1958. The state has celebrated nearly 70 years of independence from colonial rule, its population has...

Through a Colonial Lens: How Sarawak Uses 1950s Aerial Photos to Deny Land Rights
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Land rights can ensure the overall rights of indigenous peoples The aim of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, observed annually on August 9, is to raise awareness and promote the rights, cultures, and unique contributions of indigenous populations worldwide. The day also serves to acknowledge the challenges...

Land rights can ensure the overall rights of indigenous peoples
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Wiradjuri man Paul Coe, a 'legend of the land rights movement', dies age 76 Aboriginal lawyer and activist Paul Coe, who helped create the first Aboriginal Legal Service and championed the fight for land rights, has died aged 76. The beloved community figure has been remembered as a giant of the land rights movement...

Wiradjuri man Paul Coe, a 'legend of the land rights movement', dies age 76
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Want To Fight Climate Change? Give Afro-Descendant Communities Land Rights, New Report Says Territories owned and managed by Afro-descendant communities in Amazonian countries are under threat from miners, loggers and oil companies eager to exploit natural resources. Yet those territories are among some of the region’s healthiest, according to a new peer-reviewed study...

Want To Fight Climate Change? Give Afro-Descendant Communities Land Rights, New Report Says
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Moravian Church legal battle at heart of indigenous land rights The Moravian Church has congregations around the world, with more than a million members. South Africa, with 103 000 members, has one of the largest congregations. (Photos: Jonathan Hendricks) The rural town of Goedverwacht, 145km west of Cape Town and...

Moravian Church legal battle at heart of indigenous land rights
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Indigenous Self-Determination in Practice: How BIDO and the Batwa Are Reclaiming Land, Rights, and Voice in Uganda “When you are no longer allowed to talk to your ancestors, to pray in your forest, to feed yourself, then you are no longer fully alive.” —Alex Ahimbisibwe, Batwa Indigenous leader, educator, and founder of BIDO In Batwa cosmology, land...

Indigenous Self-Determination in Practice: How BIDO and the Batwa Are Reclaiming Land, Rights, and Voice in Uganda
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Whose land, whose power? South Africa’s renewable energy conundrum - Oxpeckers Wind farms feed power into the national grid, but the stories behind the land deals are rarely told. Tunicia Phillips investigates a case study in the Eastern Cape Photos and multimedia: Dianah…

#TBT: "Whose land, whose power?" examined SA's Wesley-Ciskei Wind Farm. Highlighting land rights complexities & community desires for direct energy benefits ➡️ bit.ly/3Glq7PG
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UN decries erosion of Indigenous land rights in Brazil A UN expert Wednesday reprimanded Brazil’s adoption of a controversial legal doctrine to limit the Indigenous People’s land rights. UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples Albert Kwokwo Barume reported that Brazil’s Senate has approved legislative decree No...

UN decries erosion of Indigenous land rights in Brazil
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Recognising women's land rights in Togo: a glimmer of hope In Togo, as in many African countries, women's access to land remains a major issue, even though the country’s Land Code and international law require equal access to land for women and men. Inheritance, often the main means of accessing...

Recognising women's land rights in Togo: a glimmer of hope
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Why Indigenous Land Rights Are Key to Protecting the Amazon Scattered across the nine countries that share the Amazon Basin — from Brazil to Colombia to Peru — live more than 400 distinct Indigenous nations, speaking over 300 languages. Each group has its own customs, traditions, and deep ancestral ties...

Why Indigenous Land Rights Are Key to Protecting the Amazon
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Cassiterite Mining in Lemera: A Fight for Pygmy Land Rights The Lemera cluster in the Democratic Republic of Congo is rich in cassiterite, a valuable mineral used in the global electronics industry. However, the pursuit of this mineral has led to conflicts with the ancestral land rights of Indigenous Pygmy...

Cassiterite Mining in Lemera: A Fight for Pygmy Land Rights
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Munduruku Protest for Indigenous Land Rights Reaches Brazil's Supreme Court On April 15, representatives of the Munduruku resistance movement met with Supreme Court Justice Gilmar Mendes to demand the annulment of Federal Law 14.701/23 and the cessation of the Brazilian Supreme Court’s (STF) attempts to slash Indigenous constitutional rights. The...

Munduruku Protest for Indigenous Land Rights Reaches Brazil's Supreme Court
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Power, property, and people: Land rights in the age of renewables Renewable energy projects, particularly in rural areas, have become increasingly central to the national agenda. Vast solar and wind farms are appearing across South Africa’s countryside, standing as gleaming beacons manifesting progress towards the decarbonisation goals set out in the...

Power, property, and people: Land rights in the age of renewables
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Indigenous leaders demand land rights as Amazon prepares to host COP30 - ehn.org Thousands of Indigenous people marched in Brazil’s capital this week, calling for stronger land rights and greater representation ahead of the UN climate summit in the Amazon later this year. Fabiano Maisonnave reports for The Associated Press. In short: The...

Indigenous leaders demand land rights as Amazon prepares to host COP30 - ehn.org
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Indigenous leaders demand land rights as Amazon prepares to host COP30 “We cannot stand by and allow this to happen. We need to hold this administration accountable.”...

Indigenous leaders demand land rights as Amazon prepares to host COP30
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“The Basic Issue Is a Lack of Political Will”: Land Rights and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka - Interview with Academic Mahendran Thiruvarangan Sri Lanka’s civil war (1983-2009) between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist Tamil militant and political organization fighting for an independent Tamil state, claimed 80,000-100,000 lives by UN estimates, with its legacy of displacement...

“The Basic Issue Is a Lack of Political Will”: Land Rights and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka - Interview with Academic Mahendran Thiruvarangan
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Land Rights and Monitoring Revitalize Indigenous Connections to Ancestral Lands “We have lived here for years, but we did not truly know our territory,” explained Jackson García Barrera, one of over 200 community forest monitors that Rainforest Foundation US (RFUS) supports in the Peruvian Amazon. His community, Santa Rosa del...

Land Rights and Monitoring Revitalize Indigenous Connections to Ancestral Lands
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Indonesian court halts palm oil expansion but fails to uphold Indigenous land rights The Indonesian Supreme Court has upheld a government decision to curb the expansion of a multibillion-dollar oil palm plantation project in the country’s easternmost region of Papua. In its Dec. 2, 2024, ruling, the court rejected lawsuits filed by two...

Indonesian court halts palm oil expansion but fails to uphold Indigenous land rights
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Indigenous and local women struggle for land rights despite their role in conservation, says report Women from indigenous, Afro-descendent and local communities play an important role in protecting forests and biodiversity. They pass down traditional knowledge, manage natural resources and help prevent deforestation. But despite their contributions, governments worldwide are failing to recognise their rights...

Indigenous and local women struggle for land rights despite their role in conservation, says report
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Women's Land Rights: The Missing Key to Climate Action Land is not just a means of survival; it is one of our most powerful tools to combat climate change and nature loss. Healthy soil sequesters carbon, retains water, supports biodiversity, and—crucially—underpins food production. When land is degraded—through deforestation, overexploitation,...

Women's Land Rights: The Missing Key to Climate Action
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Happy International Women's Day!!!
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Join Us in Celebrating International Women's Day 2025: Strengthening Gender Equality and Secure Land Rights for Women and Girls GLTN’s institutional commitment to gender equality and secure land rights for women and girls has been at the core of its work since inception in 2006. Guided by the current Gender Strategy, GLTN acknowledges that addressing “gender” encompasses issues, needs...

Join Us in Celebrating International Women's Day 2025: Strengthening Gender Equality and Secure Land Rights for Women and Girls
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Land rights bill in Suriname sparks outrage in Indigenous communities Indigenous and Tribal communities are upset about legislation to establish their collective land rights, saying it still gives the government too much power. The law would remove communities’ ability to reject development projects on their land, including infrastructure, agribusiness and...

Land rights bill in Suriname sparks outrage in Indigenous communities
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Repeal Chile's Usurpation Law, which violates international Indigenous Rights law and sets a dangerous precedent for violating Indigenous land rights Sign on Letter to President Boric of Chile demanding the repeal of the Usurpation Law which violates international Indigenous Rights law and sets a dangerous international precedent for violating Indigenous land rights We further demand that Mapuche Sara Huincatripay be...

Repeal Chile's Usurpation Law, which violates international Indigenous Rights law and sets a dangerous precedent for violating Indigenous land rights
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Urgent Action! Org Sign On to Support Indigenous Land Rights in Chile Letter of Protest regarding the Chilean government’s prosecution of Sara Huincatripay under the Usurpation Law, which violates international law Date: 30 January 2025 President Gabriel Boric Palacio de La Moneda Santiago, Chile Cc: CONADI National Director, Álvaro Morales Marileo Dear...

Urgent Action! Org Sign On to Support Indigenous Land Rights in Chile
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