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…
Tebtebba and CHIRAPAQ: Indigenous Peoples demand participation in national forest monitoring systems
Press release from Tebtebba and CHIRAPAQ Indigenous Peoples point out that the inhabitants of the forest are better qualified than anyone else to understand what…
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…
As seen on Huffington Post LIMA, Perú (AP) — Eso no ocurre en Perú porque la titulación casi se ha detenido. Los últimos 14 años…
As seen on El Financiero CARMELITA, UN EJEMPLO SUSTENTABLE Una antigua pista de aterrizaje, en el corazón de la Reserva de la Biósfera Maya, anuncia…
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…
During a discussion session at the 2014 Global Landscapes Forum in Lima, Peru, RRI, the World Resources Institute, and the Governance, Environment and Markets Initiative…
As seen on E&E ClimateWire Elizabeth Harball and Niina Heikkinen, E&E reporters Six Latin American nations, with support from nongovernmental organizations, yesterday formally pledged to…
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…
As seen on Inter Press Service LIMA, Dec 6 2014 (IPS) – The clamor of indigenous peoples for recognition of their ancestral lands resounded among…
The global forest crisis is worsening as infringements of the rights of indigenous peoples and forest-dependent communities are rising, according to a detailed assessment of…
As seen on Con Nuestro Perú El informe: El Ambiente Mortal de Perú elaborado por Global Witness cuestiona el nivel de compromiso del país a la…
As seen on The Guardian Peru is home to the second largest block of Amazon rainforest after Brazil and has promising forest protection schemes (including REDD+) in…
As seen on Farm Land Grab (To endorse this statement, please write to Luca Raineri: [email protected]) Rights to water and land, a common struggle Dakar…
New report by Forest Peoples Programme finds that the Peruvian government is failing to address the real causes of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon while…
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…
The government of Colombia issued a New Decree that establishes administrative measures to protect Indigenous Peoples’ ownership of their ancestral territories, until titling process is…
Asuncion. 28 November 2014 – The Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, provided her preliminary observations and recommendations at a press…
As seen on Thompson Reuters Foundation KUMBA, Cameroon (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As the world’s fifth-largest cocoa producer, Cameroon should be reaping the benefits of…