As seen on Mongabay Indonesia’s indigenous population has suffered a long history of human rights violations says a report to be released by the country’s…
As seen on Inter Press Service BALI, Indonesia, Mar 16 2015 (IPS) – Over the past three decades, 50 percent of the 544,150 square kilometres that…
Indonesian peatland communities call for recognition of their rights and traditional knowledge in managing peatlands “We, the representatives of peatland communities in Indonesia are making…
As seen on Al Jazeera By Saif Khalid It took eight days of walking for 80-year-old Dhanmatya Mumat to reach New Delhi. Like thousands of other…
Download a PDF of this statement here. Washington, DC (March 4, 2015) — The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) Coalition joins local and international NGOs…
Las inversiones y préstamos chinos siguen creciendo en forma acelerada fuera de China, y especialmente en América Latina. Al mismo tiempo, la gobernanza ambiental en…
As seen on South China Morning Post China will spend about 26 billion yuan (HK$33 billion) to help identify and register the contractual rights over the…
As seen on Thomson Reuters Foundation At People’s Rights Conference, Nepali communities affirm their rights to resources in a recently declared conservation zone The hall…
As seen on Down to Earth. Land devoted to non-agricultural use has increased three-fold since Independence. It is set to increase further and faster, according…
(Bangkok, 12 February 2015) The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), together with its member the People’s Empowerment Foundation (PEF) from Thailand, has…
As seen on RTCC By Ed King A planned new global climate change deal must recognise land and resource rights in order to protect vulnerable forest…
As seen on Mongabay. Local and indigenous communities play an important role managing and protecting forests. Research published in 2014 by World Resources Institute and…
As seen on Web Newswire “India needs to learn from these countries. Our forest laws are still colonial, with the state keeping a tight control…
As seen on the Times of India NEW DELHI: At the time when government is looking at various options to change green laws to make…
As seen on SciDev.net Women hold up half the sky, so goes the Chinese saying. Yet in the developing countries of Asia, they do not get…
As seen on Rainforest Action Network San Francisco, CA – A field-based survey to investigate Asia Pulp and Paper’s (APP) performance, provide input into an…
As seen on Down to Earth. Globally, forest governance is undergoing reforms to benefit from community forestry MEXICO AND India are worlds apart, both in…
As seen on The Hindu When the National Democratic Alliance government amended the land acquisition Act through an ordinance last week, it promised to set…
As seen on Business Standard More than 250 conflicts have arisen over land acquisitioncases between 2013 and 2014 in 165 of India’s 664 districts. This is…
Prominent politicians join in demanding dissolution of Presidential Terai Conservation Committee. A series of demonstrations by thousands of residents kicked off this month in Chure…
As seen on The Phnom Penh Post Nearly 100 per cent of Cambodia’s land concessions involve property already in use, inhabited by locals who are in…
BOGOR, Indonesia—From the Amazon forests of Peru and Brazil, to the Congo Basin and Tanzania, to Vietnam and Indonesian Borneo, more than 300 initiatives have…
Download the Press Release here. Download the Conference Statement here. A gathering of participants from seven countries in Southeast Asia debated paths to ensure that…
As seen on Yahoo! News India Kolkata, Nov 27 (IANS) At least 25 percent of India’s districts are affected by some form of land conflict…