By: Chris Arsenault

Date: March 3rd 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Honduras must do more to protect land rights activists, campaign groups said, after the killing of an award-winning indigenous environmentalist on Thursday.

Date: March 3rd 2016

Source: TeleSUR

Several unknown assailants broke into Caceres' home early Thursday and killed her. She was a prominent Indigenous and social movement leader.

Berta Caceres, the coordinator and co-founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras or COPIHN, was killed by unknown assailants early Thursday morning.

By: Staff reporter

Date: March 2nd 2016

Source: The Hindu

Campaigning for land rights for the marginalised sections of society, people from various parts of Tamil Nadu participated in a demonstration organised by Unorganised Workers Federation and National Alliance for People’s Movements, on Tuesday. This was the concluding event of their ‘Land Rights Yatra’.

On March 2nd, more than 300 organizations and communities from around the world will launch the Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights.

Date: February 24th 2016

Source: Sri Lanka Guardian

Farmers, adivasis and landless rural workers to assemble at Jantar Mantar

By: Aaron Maasho
Date: February 22nd 2016
Source: Mail Online / Reuters

ADDIS ABABA, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Ethiopia continues to crack down on demonstrators in its vast Oromiya region some four months after protests began over plans to develop an economic zone on what is now farmland around the capital, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.

By: APA
Date: February 12th 2016
Source: Star Africa.com

A coalition of civil society activists have condemned the verdict against a group of land rights activists jailed last week after confrontation with a French agri-business firm over land ownership.

The men, who are part of the Malen Land Owners Association (MALOA), were jailed for a maximum of five months after a protracted trial for destroying palm trees belonging toSocfin.

By: Umaru Fofana

Date: February 5th 2016

Source: Reuters Africa

BO, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - A Sierra Leone court has convicted six people opposed to a palm oil project in which French conglomerate Bollore owns a major stake of destroying trees and inciting the local population to protest over land rights.

By: Rubeena Mahato

Date: February 5th 2016

Source: Nepali Times

Gains of Nepal’s land rights movement has come not from bloodshed and war, but from a non-violent social movement.

In the larger scheme of things, the petty games that politicians play to keep themselves relevant should not matter much. They have done it year after year, decade after decade — it’s the same plot and even the characters are the same.

By ANASTASIA MOLONEY, Thomson Reuters Foundation

Published January 7, 2016

BOGOTA - Latin America is the deadliest region for human rights activists with scores killed defending land rights, the environment and the rights of LGBTI and indigenous people, a campaign group said on Wednesday.

Date: January 4th 2016

By: Tan Hui Yee

Four have been killed within five years; many say they were being watched or had threatening calls

"Do you sell any beer?" asked the motorcyclist who had pulled up with another man at the small shop run by Mr Chai Bunthonglek.

Before the land rights activist could reply, the stranger had pumped six bullets into his chest and head, killing him instantly.