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Trans-Pacific Partnership Threatens Indigenous Land Rights Says the UN
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: TeleSUR
The trade agreement signed earlier in February will have a devastating effect on Indigenous people, the last guardians of our natural world.
Philippines: Gov’t plans ‘modified’ land conversion moratorium
By: Chino S. Leyco
Date: November 8th 2016
Source: Manila Bulletin
Davao City – President Rodrigo R. Duterte will come up with a “modified” executive order governing the moratorium on land conversion, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) announced yesterday.
Australia: Mitchell backs land use reform
By: Brad Thompson
Date: February 29th 2016
Source: The West Australian
Advertising guru Harold Mitchell has hailed changes to WA’s land use laws as a key to unlocking the value and productivity in pastoral leases covering 87 million hectares of the State.
If you want to tackle carbon emissions let indigenous people control their land
Global leaders must acknowledge that land and forests owned and managed by local communities are more likely to prevent deforestation and deliver greater carbon storage
In my native Colombia, the cloud forests of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta have been described as holding the most important concentration of threatened wildlife on Earth. These forests are also the ancestral home of the Koguis, an indigenous group now numbering around 10,000 individuals.
Thailand: 800,000 landless awaiting land allotment
By: Online reporter
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Bangkok Post
About 800,000 landless people are awaiting promised land allotments from government agencies, according to figures compiled by the Agricultural Land Reform Office (Alro) of the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry.
"The New Urban Agenda will pay for itself"
By: Joan Clos
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: Citiscope
It’s time to emphasize implementation, the head of the Habitat III conference says.
Women farmers in northern India battle tradition, self-doubt to own land
By: Rina Chandran
Date: 29 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Anjali has worked on the land nearly all her life, first with her tenant-farmer parents, and then alongside her husband in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
But she has never owned land - a right she has been denied by inconsistent inheritance laws and her community's rigid custom that led her to believe only a man should own land.