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[26/03/2013] “We who live here own the land” - Customary Land Tenure in Grand Cape Mount, and Community Recommendations for Reform of Liberia’s Land Policy & Law
Communities of Grand Cape Mount, Liberia March 25th, 2013 Land reforms in Liberia must learn from and protect communities’ customary land and resource rights, urge Grand Cape Mount...
News
[22/03/2013] WHO IS DOING WHAT: Governor of Aceh: Save 1.2 Million Hectares of Aceh Rainforest
“According to a press release from conservationists in Aceh, an area of slightly less than one million hectares is proposed to be allocated as mining concessions. Logging concessions would...
News
[22/03/2013] WHO IS DOING WHAT/Urgent Action: Call for investigation and company departure in response to recurring violence in area of Canadian-owned silver project
“On Sunday, March 17, 2013, at around 8 pm, the President of the Xinca Indigenous Parliament and three other Xinca leaders were abducted by a group of heavily armed masked men while on their...
News
[21/03/2013] WHO IS DOING WHAT: Open letter to the UN and its Institutions and initiatives related to forest issuues (FAO, CBD, UNFCCC, UNCCD AND UNFF)
“On the occasion of March 21st, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly as International Day of the Forests (1), the World Rainforest Movement (WRM) and more than 300 signatories call on the...
News
[21/03/2013] WHO IS DOING WHAT: Cyber@ction : mobilisation des paysans polonais contre la vente des terres destinées à la culture d'OGM
“Les paysans polonais bloquent des villes dans le nord ouest de la Pologne pour mettre fin aux ventes de terres agricoles, destinées à des multinationales qui feraient pousser des OGM ...
News
[20/03/2013] VIDEO DOCUMENTARY: Red Forest Hotel
“Human rights violations in connection to Stora Enso’s eucalyptus plantations and planned cardboard factory in Guangxi have prompted a group of international and Finnish NGO’s to...
News
[20/03/2013] WHO IS DOING WHAT: World Bank Must End Support for Honduran Palm Oil Company Implicated in Dozens of Murders
“International NGOs have condemned a statement by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) [1] which defends the record of a Honduran palm oil company, Grupo Dinant, which is...
News
[16/03/2013] WHO IS DOING WHAT: Urgent Action/Mozambique
“In October, FIAN launched an Urgent Action to end violations of the rights of peasants in Niassa province in Mozambique, where industrial tree plantations on 13,000 hectares of land are...
Multimedia
[15/03/2013] WEBSITE: Let's talk land Tanzania
WEBSITE: “The Let’s Talk Land Tanzania website is a platform of information on issues related to land in Tanzania. The aim of the Let’s Talk Land Tanzania is to aggregate all information on land...
Events
[14/03/2013] Gold Mining and Peasants' Rights in Burkina Faso
“On the 22nd and 23rd of March FIAN is involved in the organization of two events as part of its speakers’ tour about the impacts of gold mining in Burkina Faso.” 22 March, 19...
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