Date: 10 January 2017
Source: Namati
Namati’s Community Land Protection Facilitators Guide is a step-by-step, practical “how to” manual for grassroots advocates working to help communities protect their customary claims and rights to land and natural resources.
The FAO announces a new e-learning course on the Responsible Governance of Tenure.
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NGO Acción Ecológica responds to the government’s attempt to close the organization down
Members of one of Latin America’s most well-known environmental organisations, Acción Ecológica, are fighting for their survival against a controversial attempt by Ecuador’s government to shut them down.
By: Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
Date: 7 January 2017
Source: Hindustantimes
Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is having sleepless nights, and the reason is a young woman advocate bent on ensuring justice for farmers “wronged” by the state government.
By: Patrick Barkham
Date: 5 January 2017
Source: The Guardian
In unprecedented move, OECD will look into allegations that world’s largest conservation organisation facilitated abuse of Baka people of Cameroon
By: Rina Chandran
Date: 9 January 2017
Source: Reuters
A commercial painter by trade, K. Raja dreamed of setting up his own business in Surya Nagar slum, in the southern Indian city of Chennai, where he had lived all his life.
But his dream faded last February, when he and about 1,000 other families were evicted with a day's notice and relocated 20 km (12.4 miles) away, their homes demolished.
By: Sophie Tremblay & Willy Lowry
Date: 4 January 2017
Source: Pacific Standard
Yaeda Valley in Tanzania is home to the Hadzabe, one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer tribes in the world, and they are using carbon trading to save their forests.
By: Sulok Tawie
Date: 7 January 2017
Source: Malaymail Online
A Dayak native customary rights (NCR) land forum today called on the state government to constitute a native court system which runs parallel with the civil court.
By: Luisa Torre, Patrik Camporez Macao
Date: 5 January 2017
Source: Aljazeera News
"They stole our forests and our water. We took our medicine from the forest. Now, they put police and dogs at our door."
