This essay identifies, summarizes, and analyzes leading international and national laws and judicial cases recognizing or otherwise supportive of native/aboriginal title.
Assessment of the 2009 Programof the Rights and Resources Initiative
Assessment of the 2008 Programof the Rights and Resources Initiative
Press release detailing The State of the Forests of Papua New Guinea report released in May 2008 by the University of Papua New Guinea Remote…
Case study excerpt from PUSHBACK: Local Power” Global Realignment
¿Podemos ser autónomos? Pueblos indígenasvs. Estado en Latinoamérica reúne dos documentos: el primero” “Dilemas y desafíos de la autonomía territorial indígena en Latinoamérica” de Pablo…
The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) “Listening” Learning and Sharing Launch” (LLSL) was designed as an “ear to the ground” for hearing the assessments and…
May 2009 briefing on the protests of AIDESEP and other organizations in the Peruvian Amazon.
According to the most recent census” the Térraba people number approximately 750 persons. In 1956″ they were granted title to part of their traditional territory….
Like all forest enterprises” community forestry enterprises (CFEs) have a mixed record” with numerous cases of successes as well as failures. As the experience in…
These are the opening remarks to participants at Conference on Forest Tenure and Regulatory Reforms: Experiences” Lessons and Future Steps in Asia. The remarks were…
This briefing note REDD+ 2010: Moving Forward for People and Forests overviews progress made on REDD+ at the December 2009 Copenhagen climate talks. Designed to…
This presentation offers an overview of the current status of REDD initiatives” stakeholder interests and expectations” and principles and criteria used to judge proposed REDD…
This is the audited financial statement for Rights and Resources Group in 2006.
A background paper for the conference "Towards a New Global Forest Agenda", held in Stockholm, Sweden in October 2007.
This paper examines the dispute resolution experiences in the US, UK and Ireland with respect to denial of applications for logging permits, and its possible…