The final report for From Rhetoric to Action: Scaling-up Community and Indigenous Peoples' Land and Resource Rights is here! Download it as a PDF or read a quick summary below. The aim of this conference was to develop strategies and actions for scaling up Indigenous…
“First, you have to stop human rights violations against Indigenous Peoples.” - Rukka Sombolinggi, Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of the Archipelago, Indonesia A clear, urgent message emerged from Day 2 of this conference. Putting an end to shocking human rights violations – imprisonment,…
Interest in the power of community land and resource rights to achieve positive social and environmental change is escalating. In opening this conference, Melchior Lengsfeld, of Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation, noted that the conference was oversubscribed and that people had…
Presented at international conference in Bern, findings suggest weak tenure threatens food security, economic development, political stability and environment; failure to recognize rights may play role in fate of “Failed States” A new global study, released on the eve of…
In response to the release of "Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change," private sector representatives and government officials released the following statements: Peru's environment minister and COP20 president Manuel Pulgar Vidal: “The climate negotiations in Lima later this year offer a…
In this technical brief, the Open Working Group's Zero Draft is urged to include targets on secure rights to land and natural resources, particularly for women and men most in need, in recognition that they are fundamental to poverty eradication, food security, women’s empowerment,…
The United Nation's post-2015 development agenda’s transformative potential depends on the extent to which it can address the structural factors that entrench global inequalities ranging from poverty to food insecurity. Many organizations consider secure and equitable rights to land and…
As seen on the Times of India VADODARA: Amid their struggle to get forest land rights in Gujarat, tribals have found a friend in a gadget that gives convincing evidence about their claims over land under the Forest Rights Act.…
As seen on the National Geographic The lure of precious metals and other natural resources has long been a source of conflict in Latin America, from the Andes to the Amazon and most everywhere else. But new research has begun…
Washington, D.C. (17 April, 2014)—A new policy brief released by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), Oxfam, and the Secretariat of the International Land Coalition (ILC) calls for the inclusion of “community land rights” in the United Nations’ Post-2015 Development…
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