As seen on Inter Press Service INTERLAKEN, Switzerland, Sep 23 2013 (IPS) - The lack of land rights is a crisis not just for local people but for all of humanity, warned organisers at an international conference here. Evidence shows that…
As seen on Thomson Reuters Foundations LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A group of international organisations working on rights linked to natural resources has called for the amount of land recognised as owned or managed by indigenous peoples and…
Interlaken, Switzerland (20 September, 2013)—At an international conference on community land and resource rights, organizers called for doubling the amount of land recognized as owned or controlled by Indigenous Peoples and local communities by 2018. Determining the current amount of…
The closing plenary took place on Friday, and was chaired by Arvind Khare, RRI. Chris Anderson, Rio Tinto, noted how the private sector could assist in providing focused actions on global land rights, such as getting behind Oxfam’s “Behind the…
Reporting back to plenary on Friday, Mark Freudenberger, Tetra Tech, for the “mapping and documentation” group, stressed that maps have many uses which can help protect community rights, enable community empowerment, and lead to legal reform. He outlined a variety…
The following opinion piece was authored by John Hudson, chairman of the board of the Rights and Resources Initiative and published in Bloomberg News As seen on Bloomberg News By John Hudson Sep 19, 2013 6:30 PM ET Indonesia’s forest…
The Thursday afternoon plenary session began with reports from each of the five strategy sessions that are taking place simultaneously on both days. Joji Cariño, Executive Director of the Forest Peoples Programme, on behalf of the “legal recognition and empowerment”…
The following is an opinion piece by James Anaya, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This piece was published in Al-Jazeera English on the eve of the Conference. The "resource curse" is alive and well in…
The International Conference on Scaling-Up Strategies to Secure Community Land and Resource Rights began on Thursday, September 19, with over 150 participants from across the world in attendance. Willi Graf, Deputy Head of Regional Cooperation, Swiss Agency for Development and…
The Rights and Resources Initiative is pleased to announce the release of a new report highlighting the substantial financial risks faced by investors when key players in large scale land acquisitions ignore the rights of local communities and Indigenous Peoples.…
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