By: Manuel Mogato and Enrico dela Cruz
Date: April 1st 2016
Source: Reuters
MANILA, April 1 (Reuters) - Philippine police opened fire as a protest by thousands of rice farmers who lost their crops turned violent on Friday, killing one and wounding about a dozen, a leader of a farming group said.
By: Johnston Keti
Date: March 28th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
Residents of Kirimon in Samburu Central Sub-County have demonstrated over what they say is illegal grabbing of 10,000 acres of public land meant to benefit their community.
The angry residents accused the Samburu County government of taking too long to handover Kelele holding ground land to the Kirimon group ranch after approval by the defunct county council.
By: Pratch Rujivanarom & Prapasri Ostanon
Date: March 29th 2016
Source: The Nation
ACTIVISTS have warned that the proposed Mineral Bill would severely violate human rights by allowing mining firms to drive people off their lands and give the state absolute power to manage mineral resources.
By Chris Arsenault
Date: March 18th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As recession bites and land disputes hit Brazil's agricultural heartland, indigenous people face land grabs and assaults by violent gangs, said Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous people.
By: Nika Knight
Date: March 17th 2016
Source: EcoWatch
Another member of Berta Cáceres’ Indigenous rights group was brutally murdered by unidentified assailants on Tuesday, following a violent eviction of Indigenous people from their land.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Investors describe it as one of the last frontiers for major agricultural expansion - a vast area in Brazil's poor northeast that the government is eager to open up to investors hoping to set up big new soy farms and cattle ranches.
By: Philippa de Boissière and Sian Cowman
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
Date: March 12th 2016
Source: Rappler.com
MANILA, Philippines – There was an exchange of accusations between the Tanay Municipal Government and Masungi Georeserve over alleged land grabbing operations.
Both sides claimed there were attempts to occupy a contested section near the Masungi Georeserve.
Date: March 10th 2016
Source: Dhaka Tribune
Speakers at a token hunger strike yesterday demanded a separate land commission for indigenous people living in plain lands.
The hunger strike was organised by Bangladesh Adivasi Forum, Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Citizens’ Committee and CHT Headman Network at the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital.
By: Kieran Guilbert
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
DAKAR, March 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rural women across West Africa will march to demand equal land rights on Tuesday to mark International Women's Day, as activists urge African nations to invest in female farmers.
By: Damian Carrington
Date: March 4th 2016
Source: The Guardian
