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Chile promises to investigate Mapuche killing
Chile's President Sebastián Piñera has promised a thorough investigation after a young indigenous man was fatally shot by police.
The incident on Wednesday sparked protests in an area in the country's south, which is marked by tensions over land ownership.
Police said Camilo Catrillanca, 24, was accidentally shot in the head during an operation against local car thieves.
Mr Catrillanca was a grandson of a Mapuche indigenous leader.
Land laws worthless without proof of ownership - experts
From South Africa to the Amazon, battles over land and who owns it are unleashing unprecedented conflict and labyrinthine legal cases
LONDON - Land laws mean nothing unless communities can prove their ownership, researchers said on Thursday, calling for better tools to map the land and stave off conflict over property.
Saving the Amazon has come at the cost of Cerrado deforestation: study
- In the early 21st century, Amazon biome deforestation decreased, as native vegetation loss began rising dramatically in the Cerrado savanna biome in Brazil. Now, scientists using a new research methodology known as telecoupling, have found that the Amazon deforestation decline and Cerrado increase are linked.
The rising global movement to demand housing as a human right
“Cape Town, like so many cities across the world, has found itself to be the piggy bank for global surplus capital looking to invest in property. We have seen wave after wave of exclusive developments catering to the super wealthy jack up prices and strip our homes of their basic function – to house families.
Hundreds of refugees and Roma homeless in Italian eviction drive
More than 600,000 migrants have arrived on Italy's shores from north Africa since 2014
ROME - Hundreds of migrants and Roma have been left homeless following two days of evictions in Italy, as its interior minister said on Wednesday that he was restoring order to the country.
Volunteers running the Baobab camp in Rome said that police forcibly evicted about 150 refugees and undocumented migrants on Tuesday and bulldozed their makeshift shelters, with the majority having nowhere else to sleep.
Louisiana landowners sue Bayou Bridge pipeline for trespassing and damage
Latest legal skirmish in a long battle between activists and the company building the pipeline, which is also behind Keystone XL
Dalits, adivasis to protest in Gandhinagar for land rights
The Gujarat government is planning to give 45 lakh hectare of cultivable wasteland to corporates for farming while ignoring the landless Dalits and tribals
Using Data to Restore Land
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 13 2018 (IPS) - A new landmark initiative aims to make quality data and tools available to the international community in order to combat an “existential crisis”: land degradation.
The Land Degradation Neutrality Initiative (LDN), launched by United Nations-backed partnership the Group of Earth Observations (GEO), aims to put data directly into the hands of local and national decision makers to help stop and reverse environmental degradation.
Top court’s ruling restores rights of landholders violated by mining giants
The Lesetlheng community’s victory against mining interests signals a start to the recognition of land rights of which SA’s oppressed people had been deprived for generations
The judgment recently handed down by the Constitutional Court in Maledu and Others vs Itereleng Bakgatla Mineral Resources comes after years of the constitutionally protected land rights of South Africans living in the former homelands being ignored by the department of mineral resources, traditional leaders and mining companies.
With forest rights, indigenous Indonesians stave off mining, palm oil
"All around us, we have seen forest land taken for mining and for palm oil plantations that are not good for the environment or for the people"
GAJAH BERTALUT, Indonesia, Nov 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a community hall, a group of men sit cross-legged on mats, poring over documents and maps marked with forests, farmland, a river and the village of Gajah Bertalut in Indonesia's Sumatra island.