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BANGKOK, July 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A push to privatise land and other resources in countries from Ukraine to Papua New Guinea is hurting indigenous people and the rural poor, while increasing the risks linked to climate change, researchers at a U.S.-based think tank said on Tuesday.
MEXICO CITY — Nicaragua’s government has not only failed to enforce laws that protect its indigenous peoples and their communal lands, but is actively promoting illegal land grabs and granting concessions to mining and timber companies, according to a report released Wednesday.
by Sara Van Note
WHEN JUAN CARLOS OCAMPO, an Indigenous community leader in Nicaragua, was a child, deer regularly passed his home as they moved between dense riparian forests on the country’s northern Caribbean coast. Like others in his Miskito community, his family caught fish and crayfish from the rivers, hunted deer and large guinea...
Visuals of hundreds of Disappeared Tamils were screened outside the UN.
Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) organized several protests in different parts of the world to observe the International Day of Disappeared on August 30.
By John C. Cannon
A new report by the Oakland Institute, a policy think tank, outlines cases of land privatization around the world.
The report’s authors caution that privatizing land, especially when it has been traditionally managed communally, could sideline the interests of Indigenous...
By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune US National Correspondent
Washington, D.C. 22 July (Asiantribune.com): The compact between Sri Lanka and the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) could potentially shift millions of hectares of land into private control, says a specialized report done by California-based think tank Oakland...
Oakland Institute report is based on six case studies including SL on global push to ‘unlock the economic potential of land’
Says MCC project will extensively map and digitise land records of up to 67% of SL