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.
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.
Nepal's Indigenous Tsum Nubri community achieves a key legislative victory in maintaining traditional methods of forest governance.
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.
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.
RRI Partners and Collaborators launch initiative to help Nepal cope with devastating COVID-19 crisis.
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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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…
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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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…
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…
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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Originally seen on Voice of America By Divine Ntaryike April 16, 2013 DOUALA, CAMEROON — The village of Adjap is on the fringes of the…
Skoll World Forum debate: "How do we feed the world and still address the drivers of deforestation?"
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…
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) –…
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…