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News - Land Rights

Malaysian tribe ends protest as mega-dam floods their homes

3rd Dec 2013
About 100 Malaysian tribespeople were forced to end a three-month blockade of a dam after rising waters threatened to flood their homes in Borneo, activists said Tuesday. (Malay Mail Online)

Mining as a threat to the Commons: the case of South America

1st Dec 2013
The increase in areas given over to mining concessions in South America has involved profound disruptions of ecosystems and the communities that have depended on them for centuries. Communities have lost access to their most valued properties that they customarily shared in a sustained manner. (César Padilla / The Wealth of the Commons)

Indonesia’s forest communities victims of ‘legal land grabs’

16th Nov 2013
Indonesia’s rainforests are facing “legal land grabs,” nongovernmental organizations have alleged. Its ancient communities are finding that ancestral lands are slipping into the hands of foreign companies for oil palm cultivation. (Jakarta Post)

Mining referendums in Colombia, Guatemala

17th Oct 2013
In Colombia and Guatemala three rural and indigenous communities vote on mining projects and demand the right to free, prior and informed consent. (LAMMP)

A move to blend culture with maps to save vanishing forests

13th Oct 2013
In Indonesia and around the world there's a movement afoot to blend map-making with cultural knowledge to help people without formal land title hang on to what's left of their homes. (Christian Science Monitor)

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