The Mapuche are the most populous indigenous people in Chile. They long resisted the Spanish colonial conquest and in 1641 secured a treaty with Spanish Crown recognising their rights to all their…
On Wednesday 20th of July 2016, a sub-section of the Executive Board of the World Bank met to approve a draft text called the ‘Environmental and Social Framework’. The text will now proceed to a full…
Held every four years, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) holds the World Conservation Congress (WCC) to shape future conservation and sustainable development initiatives.
In July 2014 the European Commission embarked on an evaluation of the EU FLEGT Action Plan. FLEGT stands for Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade and is the EU’s response to illegal logging…
In 2012, Singaporean-owned palm oil company Biopalm Energy Limited was granted a provisional concession to create an oil palm plantation. Affected local communities, which include both indigenous…
An historic development representing the first time that Guyana has agreed to enter into structured talks with indigenous peoples to resolve outstanding land issues.
AIDESEP, Peru’s national indigenous Amazonian peoples’ organisation, is urging the executive directors of the Inter-American Development Bank and its management to suspend the PTRT3 land titling…
The issue of land rights is both substantial and critical in Liberia, where I live and work as a programme manager and senior researcher at national NGO the Sustainable Development Institute.
