By Sam Eaton Even the monsoon rains don’t keep the women of Ghunduribadi, a tiny tribal village in India’s eastern state of Odisha, from patrolling…
The recent murder of Honduran human rights and environmental defender Berta Cáceres is a heartbreaking blow to all of us working to support and defend…
NEW YORK – Can land rights for women drive down child marriage and domestic violence? “Yes and more”, says an international group of land…
Around 2.5 billion people live, work, and depend on indigenous and community lands. They protect about half of the world’s land, but have full ownership rights to just one-fifth of that. Why this massive gap?
More than 100 people from 15 indigenous Wapichan communities gathered together last week in the village of Shulinab, Guyana, to celebrate joining The Global Call to…
GENEVA—The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, today strongly condemned the murder in Honduras of human rights defender Berta…
Monrovia – A group of rural and urban poor women under the banner of the ‘Natural Resource Women Platform’ has catalogued abuses and untold suffering…
Failure to recognize customary rights in tropical forests found to drive deforestation, climate change, and even armed conflict; new evidence released in London makes clear…
Como se ve en La Prensa Latina el 11 de enero de 2016 Santiago de Chile, 11 ene (EFE).- La presidenta de Chile, Michelle Bachelet, firmó…
A decade-long mining boom has left a string of complications–environmental liabilities, social polarization and loss of governmental legitimacy. Meanwhile it has not resolved a single…
YARINACOCHA, Peru—On the 5th of December 2015 we, the Federación de Comunidades Nativas del Ucayali – FECONAU (Federation of Native Communities of Ucayali) representing 35…
For most Peruvians it was a Sunday like any other; but in the Wampis community of Soledad, it was a historic day. On November 29,…
Armed with drones, GPS, cell phones and aps, Indigenous communities collecting information for claiming traditional lands, documenting crimes and complementing satellite and web-based data PARIS—As…
Who has legal ownership over the world’s forests? And how has that ownership changed over time? RRI’s new interactive Forest Tenure Tool lets you compare…
LIMA, Peru — The world’s top development banks pledged Friday to boost their funding to lessen climate change’s impact, aiming for the goal of $100…
Como se ve en SPDA Actualidad Ambiental el 23 de septiembre, 2015 Hoy, mediante Decreto Supremo 11-2015-MINAM, el Ejecutivo aprobó la Estrategia Nacional ante el Cambio Climático, un…
Every day you turn on at least one light. Have you ever stopped to think about where this energy comes from and how it gets…
Defending Afro-Indigenous Land: Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras Wins Food Sovereignty Prize
In 2015, the US Food Sovereignty Prize honors the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH by its Spanish acronym), Afro-indigenous farmers and fisherpeople who are defending their lands, waters,…
This week in Guatemala City, RRI Collaborator, The Maya Foundation (FUNDAMAYA in Spanish) is hosting the International Workshop: Opening paths to courts for the defense…
We asked women from across Africa what secure land rights mean for them, their communities, and their countries. Here’s what they had to say:
Como se ve en Servindi Servindi, 9 de setiembre, 2015.- El Reporte de Conflictos Sociales N° 138 de la Defensoría del Pueblo, correspondiente al mes…
Como se ve en EPP Por Yader Prado Reyes El Presidente de la República, Comandante Daniel Ortega Saavedra, aseguró que el Gobierno Sandinista brindará el…
We asked women from across Latin America what secure collective land rights mean for them, their communities, and their countries. Here’s what they had to…
With over 93% of natural resource development in emerging economies at risk for land conflict, the global land investment experience has key lessons for India…