Two weeks ago the Peruvian president vetoed a bill which would have codified parts of the UN convention on indigenous peoples” saying its passage would…
The Accra Caucus on Forests and Climate Change published a report this month which details an alternative vision for slowing deforestation through addressing the drivers…
On 25 June 2010″ the Brookings Institution published a report on transnational land grabbing in Africa and its effects on local indigenous populations entitled “African…
Late last month a Ugandan working group on national land policy and the central government agreed that customary land tenure rights are a distinct and…
On 8 July 2009″ the Lao National Assembly passed the Investment Promotion Law” which gives foreign buyers who invest a minimum of 2.5 billion Lao…
On 28 May 2010″ the parliament of Papua New Guinea amended key sections of the nation's Environment and Conservation Act of 2002. Opponents of the…
The Central African Republic (CAR) has become the first African Member State of the International Labor Organization to ratify ILO Convention No. 169. The International…
The provincial legislature of British Columbia has recently introduced a new First Nations’ woodland license. The Forests and Range (First Nations Woodland License) Statutes Act…
The End of the Hinterland: Forests” Conflict and Climate Change” RRI's first annual report on the global state of forests and tenure” continues to garner…
On 20 April 2010″ New Zealand's Minster of Maori Affairs” Dr. Pita Sharples” formally delivered a statement on his government's recognition and support of the…
Papua New Guinea has been at the centre of the global push for tropical forests to be included in a Copenhagen climate change deal. PNG…
As reported by Fiona Harvey and Jonathan Wheatley for the Financial Times” the legal ownership of forests and the carbon stored in them is a…
“Economic instruments are needed to modify collective choices” but let it not be thought that their magic will enable us to avoid questioning our…
Protected Area Effectiveness in Reducing Tropical Deforestation: A Global Analysis of the Impact of Protection Status Andrew Nelson and Kenneth M. Chomitz As countries around…
At a gathering of over 300 participants representing different tribal groups” traditional leaders” other traditional forest dwellers” civil society organizations” networks” intellectuals” academics” government representatives…
In response to pressure from a global coalition of NGOs” plantation smallholders” and indigenous rights organizations” the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has suspended all funding…
Standing up to bulldozers and making headlines” the Penan tribe” who live in the Malaysian part of the island of Borneo” have been staging a…
Climate change and indigenous rights are converging in the media more frequently these days” as the globally observed effects of climate change are considered among…
A recent article on allegations of corporate-led deforestation in Brazil appeared on
As reported in the Daily Nationby Ibrahim Mwathane” the cabinet of the Kenyan government has recentlyapproved sweeping changes to the country’s land resource policy. Thishopeful…
The 13th summit of the African Union has recently finished in Sirte” Libya. This year’s theme for the annual meeting of governments was “Investing in…
A resolution linking climate change to national and international security was approved by the UN General Assembly on Wednesday” June third. As reported by Claudia…
In recent provincial elections” British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell of the BC Liberal party was reelected to the province’s highest governing post. A central component…