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October, 2022
Sierra Leone, Colombia, Global
Esta é a versão PDF de uma história de dados online sobre os impactos do VGGT, publicada pelo Land Portal em 4 de outubro de 2022.
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Reports & ResearchOctober, 2022Sierra Leone, Colombia, GlobalThis is the PDF version of an online data story about the impacts of the VGGT, published by Land Portal on 4 October 2022.
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Reports & ResearchOctober, 2022Sierra Leone, Colombia, GlobalCeci est la version PDF d'une histoire de données en ligne sur les impacts du VGGT, publiée par Land Portal le 4 octobre 2022.
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Reports & ResearchMarch, 2021Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Indonesia, GlobalThe webinar Rolling back social and environmental safeguards in the name of COVID-19, organized by Forest Peoples Programme, the Tenure Facility, Middlesex University, the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and the Land Portal Foundation, took place on Thursday, February 18, 2021.
Global leaders increasingly recognize that land rights for indigenous and local communities are a prerequisite for achieving national and international goals for forest governance, food security, climate mitigation, economic development and human rights.
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Conference Papers & ReportsJanuary, 2020GuatemalaIn 2018, Global Witness found that Guatemala had experienced the highest increase in the number of murders of land and environmental defenders of any country in the world. Last year alone, the president of the village chapter of the Comité de Desarrollo Campesino (CODECA), a national organization of social movements led by indigenous people who work for the recognition of land rights, was murdered, as well as four of his colleagues. Many of these murders occurred in the municipality of Izabal.
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Conference Papers & ReportsJanuary, 2020GuatemalaEn 2018, Global Witness encontró que Guatemala experimentó el aumento más alto en el número de asesinatos de defensores de la tierra y el medio ambiente. Sólo el año pasado, el presidente del capítulo de la aldea del Comité de Desarrollo Campesino (CODECA), una organización nacional de movimientos sociales liderada por los indígenas que trabaja por los derechos a la
tierra, fue asesinado, así como cuatro de sus colegas de CODECA. Muchos de estos asesinatos ocurrieron en el
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Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2020Ethiopia, Uganda, Peru, IndonesiaEvidence shows that women can benefit from having individualised land rights formalized in their names. However, similar evidence is not available for formalization of land rights that are based on collective tenure. Studies have estimated that as much as 65 percent of the world’s land is held under customary, collective-tenure systems. Improving tenure security for land held collectively has been shown to improve resource management and to support self-determination of indigenous groups.
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Reports & ResearchSeptember, 2019Africa, Kenya, Latin America and the Caribbean, United States of America, Asia, GlobalThe climate crisis demands urgent action, yet we live in a politically polarized and paralyzed world. As governments and other actors struggle over climate change, our environment is irreversibly changing. A United Nations report on the Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services revealed that three-quarters of the earth’s land-based environment has been significantly altered by human actions.
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Reports & ResearchAugust, 2019Tanzania, Jamaica, Globallack of transparency in the land and property sector prevents individuals, communities and governments from unlocking the value of the property as an asset, and undermines policies and legal frameworks that aim to provide land tenure security, potentially leading to a misallocation of rights. In fact, land governance is ranked among the sectors in which people are most likely to pay bribes for access to services, according to Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer.
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Reports & ResearchDecember, 2018Liberia, Senegal, Honduras, GlobalThe webinar An introduction to Prindex took place on 28 November, 2018. This webinar presented a basic understanding of how Prindex works. The Prindex team presented results of data collected from 15 countries. It focused on pathways for using Prindex to propel policy conversations and movement-building for policy reform with the help of panellists from some of the countries where data was collected.
Panelists were asked to address the following questions:
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