As seen on AlertNet A worker collects palm fruits at a plantation at Langkat in Indonesia's North Sumatra province” Jan. 12″ 2013. REUTERS/Roni Bintang *…
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As seen on The Times of India By Jayashree Nandi NEW DELHI: Land conflicts are no more limited to forest areas, neither are…
Extent of MIFEE estate. PT Bio Inti Agrindo is a subsidiary of Daewoo International Corp. of South Korea. Jayapura—“The Lord Allah has given new land…
Himani Chandel/TNS New Delhi” December 17 Increasing protests against land grabs is one of India’s most pressing development challenges” said experts from international organisations working…
As seen on Times of Oman By Agencies December 18″ 2012 New Delhi: Violent clashes in forest and tribal areas in India have been increasing…
Click here for the interview audio. Presenter: Liam Cochrane Speaker: Arvind Khare” Executive director of Rights and Resources Initiative
Experts Call India a Leader among Land-Grabbing Emerging Nations; Flouting Rights at Home” Indian Firms Risk Same Mistakes Abroad NEW DELHI—(17 December 2012)—New research released…
As seen on India Vision New Delhi – A new research has blamed Indian government agencies and investors for a growing spate of violent…
As seen on NewKerala A new research by a global coalition of forest rights groups released Monday here on the eve of an international conference…
Experts cite role of India as leader among land-grabbing emerging economies; ignoring rights at home, Indian multi-nationals risk same mistakes abroad NEW DELHI—(17 December…
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ForestAction Quarterly Update December 2012 The December 2012 issue of ForestAction's Quarterly Update contains the following: World Wide Views (WWviews) on Biodiversity Designing REDD+ payments:…
From Forest Peoples Programme Cameroon’s 1994 Forest Code is being reformed and civil society has serious and urgent concerns about the process by which the…
As seen on the Deccan Chronicle Kochi: The state government intends to introduce an Infrastructure Act which will give legal protection to rights (in land…
The African Women's Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF) in close collaboration with RRI” the Ford Foundation” and The Forest Peoples' Programme” recently organized…