Land news

Brazil court rules govt must protect tribes from COVID-19
Distribution of parks in U.S. reveals racial disparities
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Growing calls to scrap 'racist' names for Australian landmarks
In Depth
Flight to the future:One land's quest to defuse climate 'timebomb'
With a heavy hand, India rides out Kashmir's year of disquiet
Brazil's Amazon rainforest surge in July, worst in recent days
Bangkok court admits Cambodia farmers' lawsuit against sugar firm
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Honduran minority fears for survival after leaders abducted
Lower-caste Indian villagers given cremation ground after funeral
Zimbabwe agrees $3.5 bln compensation for white farmers
Deadly land conflicts seen rising as threat from industry grows
Anger in India after lower-caste woman taken off funeral pyre
Kashmir domicile law raises fears of losing land and culture
India's tribal farmers tap solar irrigation to cut migration
Brazil tribes get day in court after devastating dam burst
Supreme Court may hold key to fair housing for LGBT+ Americans
Kenya's forest communities face eviction from ancestral lands
Brazil's Black rights movement grapples with hostile official
Land rights battle inches Kenyan farmers closer to title deeds
Ecuador's Amazon tribes turn to tech to track COVID-19 cases
Brazil asked to protect indigenous peoples from COVID-19
Kenya fishermen squeezed by Ethiopian mega-dam
Russians to be offered free plots of land amid Arctic push
Communities get bigger role running Pakistan's national parks
Pandemic upheaval creates 'perfect storm' for land rights abuses
Outrage in India after police beat Dalit farmers and destroy crops
Sudan says Ethiopia denies filling the Renaissance dam reservoir
Trump revamps key environmental law to fast track pipelines, roads
Indonesia's push to cut red tape sparks forest fire concerns
Ethiopia starts filling Grand Renaissance dam, minister says
Nearly one billion people scared of losing homes or land
Privatisation 'wave' hurts poor as pandemic heightens risks
Climate change, COVID-19 stoke wildfire's economic risk, Fed says
Myanmar jade mine disaster fed by COVID-era desperation
U.S. judge rejects Dakota Access effort to avoid pipeline shutdown
Brazil bans fires in Amazon rainforest to meet investor demands
U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma Native American reserve
analysis
No excuse for failure to protect forests as fog clears on benefits
COVID-19 will push middle-income countries into hunger, Oxfam says
insight
Sacred sites blast exposes Australia's laws skewed to mining
Ghanaian activists sue government to save forest from mine
Brazil's Bolsonaro vetoes COVID-19 support for indigenous people
Investing in nature-rich countries is 'insurance policy for all'
U.S. setbacks bodes ill for big oil, gas pipeline projects
Spain to lease public land royalty-free for social housing
Court orders Dakota pipeline shut in latest blow to fossil fuels
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Opinion

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Latin America’s Indigenous and Black women face a triple pandemic

Many Latin American countries recognize the property rights of indigenous and Afro-descendant people, but those laws do little to protect women’s access to land
Catherine-Lune Grayson ICRC

Facing the double burden of climate change and conflict

From Mali to Iraq, people in conflict zones are proving especially vulnerable to climate extremes
Karol Boudreaux Landesa

Why investing in women’s land rights helps overall gender equality

Supporting women’s ability to own, manage and control land will help accelerate gender equality globally
Amy Coughenour Betancourt Cadasta Foundation

Reimagining resilient food systems for food security post-COVID

Women's land rights are at the heart of a reimagined food system to withstand the ravages of disasters and pandemic

In Depth

Indigenous leaders fear Amazon soy port could be conduit for COVID-19
Under the cover of lockdown, illegal logging surges in Tunisia
Warming climate and Arctic gas push threaten Russia's reindeer herders
Lack of clean water leaves Brazil indigenous reserve exposed to coronavirus

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