Australia: How can we meaningfully recognise cities as Indigenous places?
By: Libby Porter
Date: October 5th 2016
Source: The Conversation
There are 2, 841 content items of different types and languages related to indigenous peoples' land rights on the Land Portal.
Guatemala: "We will not buy what is ours"
By: Manuela Picq
Date: September 29th 2016
Source: Intercontinental Cry Magazine
Challenging Terra Nullius in the courts of Guatemala
Copones is a large Maya Q’eqchi’ territory in Guatemala, in the northern province of Quiché along the Mexican border with Chiapas. Q’eqchi’ communities have lived in Copones for millennia, caring for rivers and the land generation after generation. Their territory extends over 20,000 hectares of clean rivers and fertile land.
US: Indigenous Women Leaders of Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance to Speak Out For Protection of Earth and Water
By: Jade Begay
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: CommonDreams
Cannon Ball, North Dakota - Women of the Standing Rock Sioux people and Indigenous women allies from across North America (Turtle Island) stand on the front-line of ongoing actions to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline and protect land, water, community, sacred sites and lifeways.
World Bank turns its back on pastoralist communities in Africa
By: Helen Tugendhat, Forest Peoples Programme
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: Brettonwoods Project
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World Bank grants waiver of indigenous peoples policy for Tanzania project
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US abstains from vote on project waiver
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Indigenous peoples highlight lack of consent, question protection of land rights
Report slams ‘undermining’ of native title rights in WA
Date: 27 September 2016
Source: National Indigenous Time
There were continuing and relentless attempts to undermine native title in WA’s Kimberley region, a new Oxfam global report pushing for the land rights of Indigenous peoples across the world has found.
The Custodians of our Land, Defenders of our Future report highlights a global land rush forcing millions of Indigenous people from their homelands.
Brazil's raging forest fires threaten indigenous land, uncontacted tribes
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 21st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Forest fires raging in northeast Brazil are forcing indigenous people out of their traditional territories and threatening uncontacted tribes, an indigenous leader said on Wednesday.
Justice for Berta: Honduran women activists launch land rights campaign
By: Vicki Gass
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: Oxfam America
Women are banding together in Honduras and around the world to demand #LandRightsNow.
New Global Approaches for Comprehensive Rural Development and Prosperity
By: Bryan Thomas
Date: 19 September 2016
Source: Diplomaticourier
An Emerging Philippine Case Study
Throughout human history, the contact between developed economies and indigenous people in undeveloped areas has created tension, and often tragedy. Today the challenge of creating a positive connection between developing and advanced orders remains a pressing, if elusive goal.
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Give indigenous people land rights or fail on deforestation pledges, governors told
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 1st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Countries will be unable to meet their climate change pledges unless they secure land rights for people living in the world's tropical forests, indigenous leaders told an international conference of regional governors meeting in Mexico.