The Yaoundé conference on forest tenure” governance and enterprise has enjoyed considerable attention from many international media outlets. Statistics from the central document released for…
Peter Kareiva” chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy” admits to “conservation heresy” in his blog post from 19 May” Should Protected Areas Be Reexamined? In…
The federal court of Malaysia upheld the concept of native customary rights (NCR) in a case initiated by a local resident Madehi Salleh” reported the…
In a stunning political shift” the government of Australia announced that it would sign the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In…
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UNCERD) recently released a UNCERD letter to Indonesian UN ambassador Forest Peoples Programme Press Release
Historic settlement of Raposa Serra do Sol land case sets firm precedent for future indigenous land rights claims. On Thursday” March 19th the Brazilian Supreme…
With the passing of the one year anniversary of the Australian government’s official ‘apology’ to the nation’s aboriginal peoples” new developments in government land policy…
In an event that has highlighted the often precarious position of indigenous peoples” the recent killing of indigenous community members in Colombia has elicited fierce…
As the government of Thailand considers resurrecting a controversial land reform plan” the overarching issue of individual land rights is gaining greater attention.
The Brazilian Supreme Court is set to punctuate a long” contentious history of indigenous affairs in Brazil with the finalizing of this historic land transfer. …
The struggle over human rights and environmental legislation continues this month in Peru” as AIDESEP” a national level indigenous organization” decried the most recent amendment…
As reported by the Associated Press in the International Herald Tribune in November 2008″ about 20″000 families from the Orang Asli (meaning ‘Original People’ in…
As reported by the United Nations News Centre” a decade-long struggle for indigenous lands has been crowned with the transfer of land title to the…
As reported from Poznan” Poland” in REDD-Monitor and by the International Indigenous Poeples Forum on Climate Change: After years of lobbying” there is the chance…
In the next few weeks” the Ministry of Environment of Brazil is set to send to the President an historic new policy on Family and…
RECOFTC (an RRI Partner) reports that the Cambodian Ministry for Agriculture” Forests and Fisheries (MAFF) recently designated 127″000 ha of forests for community management. The prakas”…
In what’s being increasingly referred to as the next global land grab” industrialized nations are scrambling to acquire arable lands in many of the world’s…
The Guardian” FoE climate and energy coordinator Joseph Zacune said the report” “re-focuses us on the question” who do forests belong to? In the absence…
As reported by Annie Kelly in the Guardian” United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change stated” “Indigenous peoples’ organisations are entitled to attend official proceedings”…
The forests of Nepal are under threat. Due to illegal encroachment and timber extraction” the livelihoods of community forest users are being challenged. In a…
The Papua New Guinea Eco-Forestry Forum reported today that the PNG Supreme Court has overturned the Malaysian conglomerate Rimbunana Hijau’s rights to log in the vast Kamula…
On September 28, 2008, the people of the Republic of Ecuador passed a new Constitution, seen as a historic document which recognizes both indigenous peoples’ land rights and livelihoods and the rights of nature.
UPDATE: October 19″ 2008; Chinese government officials make formal announcement on farmers' land rights. Read about announcement at Xinhua News Online. 12 October 2008: The…
An article by Ben Block of WorldWatch discusses how indigenous peoples and traditional groups are expressing concern over further disempowerment that may result from the…