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Bangladesh: Separate land commission for plain land indigenous people demanded
Date: March 10th 2016
Source: Dhaka Tribune
Speakers at a token hunger strike yesterday demanded a separate land commission for indigenous people living in plain lands.
The hunger strike was organised by Bangladesh Adivasi Forum, Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Citizens’ Committee and CHT Headman Network at the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital.
Honduras activists need protection after land rights leader's killing: campaigners
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: March 3rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Honduras must do more to protect land rights activists, campaign groups said, after the killing of an award-winning indigenous environmentalist on Thursday.
Honduras Indigenous Leader Berta Caceres Assassinated in Home
Date: March 3rd 2016
Source: TeleSUR
Several unknown assailants broke into Caceres' home early Thursday and killed her. She was a prominent Indigenous and social movement leader.
Berta Caceres, the coordinator and co-founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras or COPIHN, was killed by unknown assailants early Thursday morning.
Amnesty International raises concerns over Canada's anti-terrorism law, land rights
By: Karolyn Coorsh
Date: February 24th 2016
Source: CTV News
An annual report by human rights watchdog Amnesty International has put the spotlight on the rights of Canada’s indigenous people, highlighting the Liberal government’s vow to develop a public inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women.
Video series aims to help indigenous groups defend against land grabbing
By: Sean Mowbray
Date: February 23rd 2016
Source: Mongabay
A ten-part video series, called Territories of Life, tells the stories of indigenous groups who have challenged development on their land. It covers a range of issues, from the tactics developers use to acquire land to case studies of successful resistance.
Trans-Pacific Partnership Threatens Indigenous Land Rights Says the UN
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: TeleSUR
The trade agreement signed earlier in February will have a devastating effect on Indigenous people, the last guardians of our natural world.
Pakistan: No Lake for Fishermen
By: Jan Khaskheli
Date: February 15th 2016
Source: International News Magazine
Indigenous people and local fishermen in one of the poorest parts of the country in recent years have seen various mafia groups on political patronage scrambled to grab lands they have inhabited for generations.
Sweden's indigenous Sami people win rights battle against state
By: David Courch
Date: February 3rd 2016
Source: The Guardian
Court grants Arctic village rights over hunting and fishing after lawyers for state were accused of ‘rhetoric of race biology’
Death Threats and Detention in Paraguay
By: Fionuala Cregan
Date: January 20th 2016
Source: IC Magazine
NEW REPORT DOCUMENTS CHALLENGES OF DEFENDING INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS IN THE PARAGUAYAN CHACO
"We don't care if our struggle involves going to prison or even dying. Our struggle is about justice because the land is ours and our children's." –Alejandro Servín