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6 May 2019
Por Vijay Prashad*
É um hábito das elites refugiar-se num campo militar e pedir aos generais que se movimentem em prol de seus interesses. Foi o que Juan Guaidó, autoproclamado presidente da Venezuela, e o oposicionista Leopoldo López fizeram na manhã de terça-feira, último dia de abril. López…
20 April 2019
EFE - Mathura (India)
Hambrientos, explotados y endeudados, los campesinos son la principal fuerza de trabajo de la India y su descontento puede resultar clave en las elecciones generales en curso, en las que aspira a la reelección un muy criticado primer ministro, Narendra Modi…
9 April 2019
‘Slum clearance’ or ‘city beautification’ drives accounted for nearly half of the evictions.
New Delhi: Over two lakh people were forcefully evicted from their homes in the year 2018, a new study by the Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) has found. The HLRN documented the demolition of 41,730…
7 April 2019
Tribals insist that their land is most important and they will vote for those who will ensure that nobody takes their land
In the heart of Maoist stronghold of Bastar in Chhattisgarh, nationalism is not a vote catcher.
Tribals like Bheema Mandavi (35), claim that their right over land is the main…
How India handles land use change will decide whether it can improve lives without warming the world ()
28 March 2019
Another election is upon us, and we are preoccupied with some matters that are grave and many that are not. But noticeable by its absence in any of the manifestos and declarations by political parties is a debate about the future of human civilisation.
In October 2018, UN’s Intergovernmental Panel…
21 March 2019
NEW DELHI - A push to formalise land claims, map settlements and digitise records is not always in the best interests of vulnerable communities, and may even lead to greater rights abuses, analysts warned on Friday.
From Peru to the Philippines, governments are curtailing the rights of indigenous…
19 March 2019
Odisha's record in addressing forest rights is poorer than the national average, despite the Union Tribal Minister hailing from the state
As Odisha goes to poll in April, the concerns of 95,91,000 tribals in the state will be a prominent electoral issue. The Schedule Tribes (ST) account for nearly…
8 March 2019
Such has been their determination to reclaim their rights, particularly land rights, that even the government of Karnataka has acknowledged the force of these women
Her hair is white, her face wrinkled. But her spirits are high as she belies her age to play the drum hanging around her neck. As she…
6 March 2019
Date: 1er mars 2019
Source: Foncier et Développement
Land Conflict Watch – un outil créé pour documenter les conflits fonciers en Inde et mesurer leur impact – joue un rôle essentiel dans la lutte des communautés pour leurs droits sur les terres et les forêts. Grâce à un système de vérification…
2 March 2019
The claims are by tribal or pastoral communities seeking community rights over forest land they have inhabited for generations. Out of 4.224 million claims received, only 1.894 million titles have been distributed, 1.939 million have been rejected and a little less than 400,000 are still being…
25 February 2019
About 8 million indigenous people in India are in danger of being evicted from forests that their ancestors have lived in for millennia. This grave injustice follows a shocking supreme court ruling that rides roughshod over the rights of India’s indigenous people, known as Adivasi, or tribals.…
21 February 2019
The Supreme Court has directed 17 states to evict the Scheduled Tribe members and traditional forest-dwellers, whose claims to Forest Rights Act had been rejected, before July 27.
Nearly 1 million tribal people across the country are currently at the risk of eviction from various forestlands as…