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Displaying 1 - 10 of 3363Public Debate on the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (TGs[1]) in Europe and Central Asia
Today, different farmers’ organizations of the European Coordination of La Via Campesina (ECVC) from the EU and Central Asia[2] took part in a public debate on access to land at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels[3].
Promised land and homes, Sri Lankan refugees to return from India
Nearly 4,000 of more than 62,000 refugees living in camps in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu have registered to return
BANGKOK, Oct 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of Sri Lankan refugees living in India are ready to return to their homeland decades after fleeing civil war, according to a rights group that said returnees will receive a plot of land and other assistance.
Climate change in Somaliland — ‘you can touch it’
Self-declared state wants to shift much of its population to the coast as grazing land fails
It is often said that climate change will hurt the world’s poorest people first. Nowhere is that potentially truer than in Somaliland, an unrecognised state in the Horn of Africa sandwiched between an expanding desert and the Red Sea.
A prolonged drought has killed 70 per cent of the area’s livestock in the past three years, devastating the region’s pastoralist economy and forcing tens of thousands of families to flee their grazing land for urban camps, according to authorities.
South African indigenous community win environmental rights case over mining company
A court has ruled that companies must first seek permission from local communities if they plan to mine on their ancestral land. This represents a new achievement in land and mining rights for South Africa.