Confident Gender and Land Champions - New WOLTS Paper Published
23 May 2023
Latest paper from the WOLTS team offers new evidence of a sustainable approach to securing land rights for women and communities
There are 2, 841 content items of different types and languages related to indigenous peoples' land rights on the Land Portal.
Indigenous Communities Urge Action on Collective Land Titles
13 March 2023
Just 38 indigenous communities out of 455 have received communal land titles since the government first made them available in 2009, with indigenous activists and rights groups bemoaning the notoriously slow process.
Indigenous Community Banned From Farming Over Unclear Zoning in Areng Valley
17 February 2023
A hazy Cambodian government land zoning and titling initiative known as Sub-Decree 30 has made life problemativ for indigenous community
How Illegal Mining Caused a Humanitarian Crisis in the Amazon
07 February 2023
The onslaught of illegal miners into Indigenous territory in the Brazilian Amazon has destroyed forest, polluted rivers, and brought disease and malnutrition to the Yanomami people. Now, the new Brazilian government is confronting a health crisis and moving to evict the miners.
Cop27: ‘It’s humiliating’ – Indigenous voices say they are being ignored at climate summit – as it happened
16 November 2022
A Kulkalgal activist from the Torres Strait Islands has said the way the world often treats Indigenous people is an insult and that he is here at the Cop27 conference in Egypt “fighting for our home”.
The Moi struggle for land rights
15 November 2022
On the ground and in the courts, members of the Moi indigenous group are resisting oil palm expansion in West Papua, Indonesia
Indigenous Indonesians want EU support on land rights
09 November 2022
Indigenous groups in Indonesia ask EU for help enshrining rights as part of free-trade agreement
Society Watch: Indigenous peoples fear being overshadowed after COP26 moment in the sun
08 November 2022
At COP26 the voice of indigenous people was heard at the top table for the first time. Community leaders from the Arctic to the Amazon spoke of the crucial role that indigenous peoples could play in tackling the climate emergency and protecting biodiversity, but how they were being killed for protecting land that was rightfully theirs, and traditions – along with whole landscapes – were being bulldozed.
Corte Interamericana admite demanda del pueblo Bri Brí sobre derecho territorial ancestral
06 October 2022
Los siete pueblos originarios y los 12 Congresos y Consejos territoriales, miembros de la COONAPIP manifiestan que se encuentran en pie de alerta sobre la situación del pueblo Bri Brí.
South Africa has a new traditional courts bill. But it doesn’t protect indigenous practices
22 September 2022
The Bill seeks to regulate the structure and functioning of traditional courts in a uniform way. It also sets out to transform the traditional justice system to conform with constitutional values.