News - Land Rights

Film Chronicles the Movement to Save a Sacred Land and Culture

14th Oct 2014
A story about the Wixárika People, one of the last living Pre-Hispanic cultures in Latin America, and their struggle to preserve Wirikuta, their most sacred territory. (Tracy Barnett / IC Magazine)


Attorney and State Ministers will apologize to Sarayaku people

30th Sep 2014
The Sarayaku people is prepared to receive on October 1 the public apologies that the State must make according to the judgment issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), based in Costa Rica, in June 2012. (Ecuador Times)


UN-masking Climate Smart Agriculture

23rd Sep 2014
As women, men, peasants, indigenous, and youth of La Via Campesina, we denounce climate smart agriculture which is presented to us as a solution to climate change and as a mechanism for sustainable development. It's clear that underneath the pretense of addressing poverty and climate change, there is nothing new. (International Peasant Movement)


Land dispute parties, govt to sit together

9th Sep 2014
The National Commission on Human Rights will hold a mediation meeting where community representatives, companies and government institutions will sit together to hear testimonies about customary land disputes in Sumatra. (Apriadi Gunawan and Jon Afrizal / The Jakarta Post)


Africans’ land rights at risk as new agricultural trend sweeps continent

1st Sep 2014
Oxfam reveals, large-scale public-private partnerships present a moral hazard with serious downsides, especially for those living in areas pegged for investment. (Janah Ncube / IPS)


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