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Without our land, we cease to be a people: defending indigenous territory and resources in Honduras.
Miriam Miranda is a leader of the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization (OFRANEH), which works with the 46 communities of the Afro-indigenous Garífuna of Honduras, to defend their territories, natural resources, identity, and rights. Miriam’s narrative below is from an interview with Beverly Bell in Washington, D.C.
Upcoming online discussion on women’s land rights in Peru
Colombia's war-weary farmers head home amid hopes and fears
By: Anastasia Moloney @anastasiabogota
Date: May 15th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
More than five decades of conflict have forced 6.7 million Colombians to flee their homes, many of them poor farmers, making the country home to the second biggest internally displaced population after Syria.
The government estimates that up to 15 percent of Colombian territory has been abandoned or illegally acquired through violence, extortion and fraud.
Imminent forced eviction by Kenya threatens indigenous communities' human rights and ancestral forests
The Kenyan government has sent police troops to Embobut forest area (in Elgeyo Marakwet County, Western Kenya) to forcefully evict thousands of the indigenous inhabitants of the Sengwer and Cherangany communities from their ancestral forestlands. The eviction is expected to commence as early as tomorrow.
Brazilian Indians protest plan to “undo” land rights progress
Date: June 2nd, 2016
Source: Survival International
Brazilian Indians are protesting against the country’s political elite’s threats to break up their lands and limit their rights.
As the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff moves forward, interim President Michel Temer and his newly appointed ministers are attempting to put a stop to the protection of indigenous lands.
'All we ask is for is our land back': Uganda's Bugala Island farmers
By: Evelyn Lirri
Date: June 19th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BUGALA ISLAND, Uganda (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mariam Nakakeeto listened quietly to the grievances of fellow farmers gathered outside the grounds of a local church on Bugala Island, by the shores of Lake Victoria.
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Land rights tampering ‘not an ANC issue’ - South Africa
Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti. Picture: TREVOR SAMSON
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Nkwinti has given the clearest indication yet that the government will not tamper with the constitutional provisions of fair and equitable compensation for properties earmarked for land reform.
In heated public debates over the past two years, critics of the government’s drive to speed up land and restitutional reform have frequently resorted to the bogeyman of expropriation without compensation to underscore their opposition to it.