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Nepal’s Tsumba people celebrate 100 years of local Shagya tradition, and new law that recognizes its practice

In Nepal, the local government of Gorkha District’s Tsum Nubri Rural Municipality recently adopted a new law to formally recognize and preserve the local community’s Shagya tradition of nonviolence.

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Paving the way forward: The Women in Global South Alliance holds its first strategic meeting

Members of the new network agree to create more documentation on land rights and governance processes for Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local community women; call for strengthening advocacy capacity.

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Indigenous community in Nepal wins recognition for customary practice to protect nature and biodiversity

Nepal's Indigenous Tsum Nubri community achieves a key legislative victory in maintaining traditional methods of forest governance.

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In Nepal, Indigenous women generate green jobs through lime cultivation

In Nawalpur district, 197 km southwest of Kathmandu, women from the Tharu and Kumal tribes in Madyavindu Municipality worked together throughout the 2021 monsoon season finding ways to adapt and support their communities while adhering to pandemic safety guidelines, demonstrating their inspiring resilience and socio-economic prowess.

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Several forest regulations recently introduced by Nepal’s Ministry of Forest and Environment are raising serious human rights concerns among the country’s local forest communities. These provisions, currently under cabinet review, are geared to become part of Nepal’s Forest Act. But local forest communities say they are in direct contrast to the Act’s spirit and violate their rights.

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The international community must come together for Nepal

RRI Partners and Collaborators launch initiative to help Nepal cope with devastating COVID-19 crisis.

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As Nepal wrote a new constitution and laid out guidelines for three tiers of elections, community forest users worried that the new government would leave little room for the voices of traditionally marginalized groups, like rural women and Dalits, a historically persecuted community in Nepal and India. The power to sit at the bargaining table and make important policy decisions, they agreed, had to come from adequate representation, particularly at the local government level.

That’s why women leaders and activists at a civil society organization called FECOFUN decided to run for office.

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Deutsche Welle: Nepal’s community forests fight poverty and destruction
Deutsche Welle: Nepal’s community forests fight poverty and destruction

As seen on Deutsche Welle Climate change, deforestation and land grabbing don’t only threaten Nepal’s rich biodiversity, but the economic wellbeing of millions of its citizens….

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Thomson Reuters Foundation: An Opportunity to Get Conservation Right
Thomson Reuters Foundation: An Opportunity to Get Conservation Right

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…

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Does Conservation “Need People”?
Does Conservation “Need People”?

Nature is Speaking, a new campaign from Conservation International, uses celebrity voices to personify natural forces — Penelope Cruz is water, Kevin Spacey is the…

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Campaign Carves Way Forward for Nepal’s Indigenous Communities’ Forest Rights

58 percent of Nepal’s land is currently held by the government in the name of conservation, often displacing and leaving the country’s diverse and widespread…

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NEPAL, April 16:  A three-day workshop resulted in a position paper based on forest-related strategies, in the ongoing process of developing Nepal’s Forestry Sector Strategy, the National REDD…

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FECOFUN: 5th General Assembly of FECOFUN
FECOFUN: 5th General Assembly of FECOFUN

We are very pleased to inform you all that the Fifth General Assembly of Federation of Community Forest Users Group (FECOFUN), an umbrella organization of…

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Quarterly Update 2013.4
Quarterly Update 2013.4

2013 saw a lot of serious progress in forest tenure reform: legal judgments that upheld the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities; successful local…

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New book reveals that their ability to preserve forests is under threat from land grabs by governments and developers   WARSAW, Poland—Through the conservation and…

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RRI Quarterly Update (July – September 2013)
RRI Quarterly Update (July – September 2013)

The crisis of insecure land rights–most immediately felt by the millions of Indigenous Peoples and other local communities who risk losing their lands and livelihoods–profoundly…

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RECOFTC: Proposed Forest Act amendment could derail community forestry in Nepal
RECOFTC: Proposed Forest Act amendment could derail community forestry in Nepal

As seen on RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests Ganga R. Dahal provides a viewpoint on a proposed amendment to Nepal’s Forest Act of…

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Press release against the National Budget of FY 2070/71 FECOFUN draws its attention on the budget of the fiscal year 2070/71. In the budget plan…

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As seen on eKantipur Community forest user groups and experts working in the sector have slammed the government’s budget for the fiscal year 2013/14 stating that…

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FECOFUN: Doti Declaration Paper
FECOFUN: Doti Declaration Paper

Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal Eight National Executive Committee Meeting  May 16th and 17th, Silgadi Doti The Doti Declaration Paper The Eighth National Executive…

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Voice of America:  Growing Pressure for Land Reform in Cameroon
Voice of America: Growing Pressure for Land Reform in Cameroon

Originally seen on Voice of America By Divine Ntaryike April 16, 2013 DOUALA, CAMEROON — The village of Adjap is on the fringes of the…

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As seen on redd-monitor By Chris Lang This week the 10th Skoll World Forum takes place at the Saïd Business School in Oxford. One of…

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IRIN: Balancing conservation and people's access to land
IRIN: Balancing conservation and people's access to land

As seen on IRIN Maasai could take advantage of Kenya’s new constitution to secure rights to land. Photo: EC/ECHO/Malini Morzaria LONDON, 4 April 2013 (IRIN) –…

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As seen on PRESSTV The international NGO Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) has released two reports, examining land transactions in West and Central Africa, which…