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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 […] View resource Briefing paper Desterrados: Tierra, poder y desigualdad en America Latina 30/11/2016 5 documents 100 pages long Languages: English, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Extractives Indigenous people Inequality LAC Land rights Latin America and the Caribbean Natural resources Smallholder agriculture Overview 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 […] View resource 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 Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Indigenous people Land rights Overview 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 […] View resource 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 Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Indigenous people Land rights Overview 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, […] View resource 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 Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Indigenous people Land rights Overview 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 […] View resource Briefing paper Common Ground: Securing land rights and safeguarding the earth 02/03/2016 3 documents 56 pages long Languages: English, French, Spanish Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Community lands Global call to action Indigenous people Land grabs Land rights Livelihoods Pastoralism Overview 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 […] View resource Spotted an error? Let us know