Civil society groups want 2014 bill passed before August recess, claiming land grabs have ‘turned citizens into refugees in their own country’ Liberia could be…
Civil society groups want 2014 bill passed before August recess, claiming land grabs have ‘turned citizens into refugees in their own country’ Liberia could be…
Held captive for two years in a legislature now in crisis over accusations of corruption, Land Rights Act to secure local peoples’ rights to their…
Add your voice by signing the petition below. From the Civil Society Organizations Working Group on Land Rights in Liberia: We, the Civil Society Organizations (CSO)…
Los investigadores del Centro para la Investigación Forestal Internacional (CIFOR), Peter Cronkleton y Anne Larson, han recibido el máximo galardón de la editorial científica Society…
Public auctions will be held in Lima, Peru, over the next few weeks as the Melka group decides to sell land in Ucayali. A public…
A decade after REDD appeared on the international scene, mechanisms to reduce emissions by protecting forests–activities referred to as REDD+–are finally moving from the readiness…
En Colombia, miles de campesinos, indígenas y afro-descendientes agremiados en la Asociación Nacional de Zonas de Reserva Campesina (ANZOR), la Organización Nacional Indígena Colombiana (ONIC)…
Since 2009, the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), a civil society organization based in Monrovia, Liberia, has collaborated with RRI to support local communities in securing…
The release of a new series of reports in March by the Indonesian National Commission On Human Rights (Komnas HAM), the government’s human rights agency,…
NGOs call on governments to act to save people and planet Indigenous Peoples and local communities protect half the world’s land, but formally own just…
Global Network, MegaFlorestais, brings together forest agency leaders to better adapt to increasing pressure on forest land and climate change mitigation challenges WASHINGTON, DC (25…
LONDON: On the 25th April the complaints panel of the RSPO (Round table on Sustainable Palm Oil) issued a preliminary ‘Stop work order’ to Plantaciones…