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A Quiet Revolution: Land justice for Miskito Indigenous peoples in Honduras

26/11/2020

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study tells the story of the Miskito Indigenous people’s struggle in Honduras to regain land taken from them during the colonial period which has benefitted around 90,000 people. The eventual restoration and legal protection of their rights to ancestral land and to self-governance has righted a historical injustice and provided them with more […]

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Briefing paper

Desterrados: Tierra, poder y desigualdad en America Latina

30/11/2016

5 documents

100 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Para combatir la desigualdad en America Latina es necesario abordar la extrema concentracion en el acceso y control de la tierra y en el reparto de los beneficios de su explotacion. Nuevos datos explican por que America Latina es la region del mundo mas desigual en el reparto de la tierra. La alta dependencia del […]

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Briefing note

Land is Life: The struggle of the Quechua people to gain their land rights

26/09/2016

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Since the early 1970s the government of Peru has given multinational oil companies permission to exploit significant areas of the Amazon – all of which are ancestral territories of indigenous peoples. The Quechua people of Nuevo Andoas have been particularly affected, suffering the health and environmental consequences of a poorly regulated extractives industry. This paper […]

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Briefing note

Making Rights a Reality: The ongoing struggle for land justice in the Kimberley Region, Australia

26/09/2016

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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The situation for Aboriginal people and land rights in the Kimberley is a case study on the contradictory nature of Indigenous policy in Australia. The most vulnerable Australians have to fight – sometimes for decades – to be formally recognized under law as traditional landowners; only to come up against a wall of red tape, […]

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Media briefing

Custodians of the Land, Defenders of our Future: A new era in the global land rush

26/09/2016

4 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Since 2009, Oxfam and others have been raising the alarm about a great global land rush. Millions of hectares of land have been acquired by investors to meet rising demand for food and biofuels, or for speculation. This often happens at the expense of those who need the land most and are best placed to […]

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Briefing paper

Common Ground: Securing land rights and safeguarding the earth

02/03/2016

3 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up over 50 percent of the land on the planet; they legally own just one-fifth. The remaining five billion hectares remain unprotected and vulnerable to land grabs from more powerful entities like governments and corporations. There is growing evidence of the vital […]

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A Quiet Revolution: Land justice for Miskito Indigenous peoples in Honduras

Desterrados: Tierra, poder y desigualdad en America Latina

Land is Life: The struggle of the Quechua people to gain their land rights

Making Rights a Reality: The ongoing struggle for land justice in the Kimberley Region, Australia

Custodians of the Land, Defenders of our Future: A new era in the global land rush

Common Ground: Securing land rights and safeguarding the earth