“According to the stakeholders’ submission, the violations include systematic land alienations, forced evictions, intimidations, marginalization from social services and lack of legal recognition.

“Since 2006, the government of Tanzania has been engineering forceful evictions of pastoralists and hunter-gatherers”, the submission of stakeholders reads in part.

“Indigenous leaders demanded land commission for restoration of their dispossessed land recognising their traditional rights over land and forest. They said that a huge number of indigenous peoples in greater Mymensigh area have been uprooted from their ancestral land through conducting communal riots since partition of sub-continent in 1947.

“O termo “usurpação” refere-se à acção de apoderar-se astuciosa ou violentamente de uma coisa de que alguém legitimamente usufruiu ou que lhe pertence; alcançar sem direito; adquirir por fraude; estar a possuir ilegitimamente.

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“In June 2009 Melanesian activists (from Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands) met in Madang (Papua New Guinea) to discuss the defence of indigenous land. At this meeting they created the Melanesian Indigenous Land Defence Alliance. In this short documentary they explain why customary land is so important and why MILDA was formed to defend it.”