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I invite you to read this briefing paper prepared - by Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) - on challanges faced by indigenous women in Southeast Asia in accessing justice. The briefing includes...
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” The government arrested more than twice as many land rights ac­tiv­ists and handed out dozens more economic land concessions (ELCs) in 2012 compared to the year before, new figures released...
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From December 8th to December 17th, more than 42,000 Cambodians across the country celebrated “International Human Rights Day”. Events were held to highlight land, labor, and human...
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(…)”Article 58 in the draft defines: “Organizations and individuals are assigned or leased land by the state or are recognized of their land use rights in the long term or in...
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Arbitrary Detention Hubei Activists Sent to Prison for Defending Land Rights   Two activists in Hubei Province have been sentenced to prison for “gathering a crowd to disrupt social order” in...
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[via FrontLine Defenders] Indigenous human rights defender Ms Erita Capion Dialang has been under threat since the killing of her sister-in-law on 18 October 2012, during an attack by a battalion of...
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[via the Office of the President of the Philippines] October 15, 2012- “Report to us immediately if any of you still hold titles that don’t give equal co-ownership of the lands you till. Inform us...
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[via WITNESS]  GENEVA, October 2, 2012– Buddhist monk Venerable Luon Sovath has been presented the prestigious Martin Ennals Award (MEA) for human rights by 10 internationally-recognized human...
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Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights...
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