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Securing communal land rights for Tanzania's Indigenous Peoples

By: Sophie Morlin-Yron

Date: April 25th 2016

Source: The Ecologist


Commuting between land rights negotiations in the city and herding goats on the plains, Edward Loure is at once a traditional Maasai and a modern urbanite, writes Sophie Morlin-Yron. That ability to straddle the two very different worlds he inhabits has been key to his success at having 200,000 acres of land registered into village and community ownership - and his own 2016 Goldman Prize.


One year of Nepal quake: Thousands yet to get funds to rebuild

By: Shubham Ghosh

Date: April 25th 2016

Source: One India


Kathmandu, April 25: A year has lapsed since a devastating earthquake left Nepal in the ruins but still several people, particularly the women, are yet to get funds to rebuild their lost property for they do not own land and neither can prove the ownership of the land where they lived, international anti-poverty organisation Oxfam informed last week.

Salupongan International: Fighting for the rights of indigenous people

By: Malou Liwanag-Bledsoe

Date: April 21st 2016

Source: Asian Journal


ALTHOUGH the conflict between the Philippine government and the communist rebels in Mindanao has been a long problem that has affected thousands of indigenous people in the area, not many are aware that another issue that is facing them is the violation of their human rights, specifically the displacement and environmental degradation that is facing their ancestral land.


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