Killings, land grabs threaten Filipino indigenous peoples
By: Artemio A. Dumlao
Date: August 9th 2016
Source: Philstar.com
By: Artemio A. Dumlao
Date: August 9th 2016
Source: Philstar.com
By: Sylivester Domasa
Date: August 9th 2016
Source: Daily News Tanzania
By: Jeremiah Bako Gyang
Date: August 7th 2016
Source: Today Nigeria
The Minister of Power Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has linked the rising spate of urbanisation currently experienced in the country to traffic congestion, over-crowding ,substandard housing and slum development adding that the challenges are compounded by climate change, insecurity and poverty.
By: Anastasia Moloney
Date: August 9th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Colombia is expanding its land restitution program into former no-go areas in the country's war-torn south aiming to return land stolen from farmers by illegal armed groups, the government has said as peace talks advance.
By: Kate Ravilious
Date: August 8th 2016
Source: Environmental Research Web
By: Loh Foon Fong
Date: August 7th 2016
Source: The Star Online
SHAH ALAM: NGOs representing indigenous people are urging the federal and state governments to recognise the maps indigenous communities have drawn up to demarcate their land.
By: Kann Vicheika
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: VOA Khmer
The protesters from six villages in Koh Kong’s Sre Ambel and Botum Sakor districts claim that Koh Kong Sugar and Koh Kong Plantation encroached on their farmland.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous people living in Brazil's rainforest have welcomed a decision by the national environment agency to cancel a proposed mega-dam in the Amazon which they say would have displaced communities while opening the sensitive region to logging.
By: Girmachew Gashaw
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Ethiopian Herald
OPINION
Farmers summit towards solving landlessness
By: Socorro Leite, National Director, Habitat Brazil
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
This year, Brazil is hosting the world’s biggest sports event – the Summer Olympic Games. While athletes arrive in Rio to compete for medals and global audiences prepare to watch the games, two questions are on the mind of Rio de Janeiro's residents: