Israel has large scale development plans intended to attract new populations to the Negev desert and turn its southern peripheral region into a military and technology hub. Indigenous Bedouins in the area say the...
Thousands of people from across Honduras traveled to the western city of La Esperanza over the weekend to attend a wake and funeral services for Berta Cáceres. The internationally recognized indigenous and land rights...
Hundreds of indigenous Lumads have marched to Manila from Mindanao in southern Philippines to call attention to a spate of recent attacks and killings targeting members of their tribe. The month-long walk started on...
A clash of lifestyles is at the heart of a tense land dispute in Cameroon, pitting indigenous nomadic Mbororo cattle-herders against farmers settling in the Mbororo traditional grazing lands. The Mbororo are calling on...
The plights of farmers in India is drawing global attention after a recent spate of suicides. More than a quarter-of-a-million farmers have killed themselves in the past two decades, their deaths often linked to...
Indigenous people in Brazil’s Amazon region continue to suffer violence, intimidation and forced displacement from their lands — usually at the hands of interests tied to big business and development. To highlight the issue,...
Members of an indigenous community located in the path of a major development project in Chiapas, Mexico say hundreds of police and armed civilians attacked and burned down communal buildings at the heart of...
Lawmakers in India are considering changes to the law that governs land acquisition – or eminent domain. Today the lower house of India’s Parliament passed a bill to reverse restrictions placed on land acquisitions...
It’s been a year since the government of Zimbabwe forcibly relocated at least 20,000 villagers from their traditional homelands in Masvingo to make way for a dam project. At the time of the relocation,...
Native American communities along the length of the proposed path of the Keystone XL pipeline have opposed the project that would transport tar sands oil – or bitumen – from Alberta, Canada to Texas...
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