By: Chris Arsenault
Date: March 1st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous people formally own just one-tenth of the world's land, according to research released on Wednesday as part of a campaign that aims to expand legal rights to land globally.
By: Joe Torres and Mark Saludes
Date: February 29th 2016
Source: UCA News
A fact-finding mission launched by church and environmental groups in late February discovered "police brutality and land grabbing" were committed in a mining town north of Manila.
By: Editor
Date: March 1st 2016
Source: Thai Visa News
BANGKOK: — The government plans to allocate about 195,000 rai of state land in 47 provinces for landless poor so they will have a land plot to build a living quarter and to make a living.
By: Ben Ezeamalu
Date: February 29th 2016
Source: Citiscope.org
By: Lay Samean and Jack Davies
Date: March 1st 2016
Source: Phnom Penh Post
On March 2nd, more than 300 organizations and communities from around the world will launch the Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights.
By: Ilona Amos
Date: February 28th 2016
Source: The Scotsman
FARMERS must change the way land is used in order to safeguard human health, food supplies and the environment, Scottish scientists have warned.
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.
By: José Aylwin
Date: February 28th 2016
Source: IC Magazine / Intercontinentalcry.org
By: Siddharth Ranjan Das
Date: February 27th 2016
Source: NDTV
SARGUJA: Deep inside Chhattisgarh's Hasdeo Arand forest, the silence of the woods is broken by the mechanical sounds of coal mine workers cutting trees near the Ghatbarra village of Sarguja district.
But around 300 tribal families in the village allege what is also being wrecked is the law that assured them first rights to the forest.