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Beyond Land Titles, Towards Resilience: An experience from India through the implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006

27/11/2020

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21 pages long

Languages: English

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Tenurial rights are critical for the Indigenous and forest-dwelling communities, and especially tribal groups of India. The discourse around the ownership, governance and management of forests in India underwent a significant change with the enactment of the Forest Rights Act, 2006. The livelihoods of people living close to and within forests are inextricably linked to […]

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Research report

Women’s Land Rights Scorecard: The failure of land policy and legal reforms in securing women’s land rights in Africa

24/11/2020

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10 pages long

Languages: English

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The realization of women’s land rights often tends to get no further than the level of action plans and policies that are rarely implemented, due to a lack of real political commitment and the patriarchal values that still predominate in Africa. To realize full gender equality (Goal 17), the implementation plan of the African Union […]

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Case study

Protecting the People and the Forest: Bolsa Verde, Brazil

13/11/2020

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20 pages long

Languages: English

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Bolsa Verde – or the Green Grant – is one of the few government social protection schemes that simultaneously improved the lives of many thousands of rural people living in poverty and reduced deforestation. The programme encouraged the preservation and sustainable use of forest resources by providing extremely low-income Brazilians living in the Amazon Forest […]

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Case study

Regreening the Sahel: A quiet agroecological evolution

05/11/2020

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20 pages long

Languages: English

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Across large areas of the Sahel region of West Africa, one of the poorest and most environmentally precarious areas of Africa, a decades-long revolution in agroecology has produced remarkable results in improving food security and reversing environmental degradation. It has been lauded for having been led and spread by numerous local farmers, although the story […]

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Research report

Empty Promises Down the Line? A Human Rights Impact Assessment of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

10/09/2020

2 documents

109 pages long

Languages: English

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This community based human rights impact assessment highlights the social, environmental, cultural, and human rights risks of the East African Crude Oil pipeline for communities located along the proposed pipeline corridor in Uganda and Tanzania. Co-researched and produced by Global Rights Alert (“GRA”), Civic Response on Environment and Development (“CRED”), Northern Coalition for Extractives and […]

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Discussion paper

Removing Carbon Now: How can companies and individuals fund negative emissions technologies in a safe and effective way to help solve the climate crisis?

19/08/2020

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Carbon removals are an important part of the solution of the climate crisis, hundreds of gigatons of CO2 will likely need to be removed from the atmosphere this century with the help of a wide range of negative emission technologies. This paper sets out to answer which negative emissions techniques are available on the market […]

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Briefing paper

Evitar el Etnocidio: Pueblos indígenas y derechos territoriales en crisis frente a la COVID-19 en América Latina

21/07/2020

2 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Mientras el mundo entero trata de ponerse a salvo de la pandemia, los pueblos indígenas de América Latina agonizan y algunos podrían llegar a desaparecer. El abandono estatal y la ausencia de servicios adecuados de salud integral y agua segura los hace extremadamente vulnerables al virus que se extiende a toda velocidad por el continente. […]

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Briefing paper

Falling Through the Net: A Survey of Basic Labour Rights Among Migrants Working in Thailand’s Fishing Sector

20/07/2020

2 documents

78 pages long

Languages: English

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The purpose of this report is to document the rights situation of workers in Thailand’s fishing sector, particularly in the context of recent reduced international pressure. In January 2019, the European Union lifted its ‘yellow card’ from Thailand, following important strides of the Government of Thailand in addressing violations of Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) […]

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Media briefing

The Hunger Virus: How COVID-19 is fuelling hunger in a hungry world

09/07/2020

3 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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COVID-19 is deepening the hunger crisis in the world’s hunger hotspots and creating new epicentres of hunger across the globe. By the end of the year 12,000 people per day could die from hunger linked to COVID-19, potentially more than will die from the disease itself. The pandemic is the final straw for millions of […]

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Research report

Behind the Barcodes Supermarket Scorecard 2020 Data

30/06/2020

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Languages: English

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This is the 2020 update to the supermarket scorecard, part of the Behind the Barcodes campaign that Oxfam launched in 2018 to expose the economic exploitation faced by millions of small-scale farmers and workers in food supply chains, and mobilize the power of people around the world to help end it. The campaign is underpinned by extensive […]

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