Karuturi Global Ltd, an India-based agricultural company and the world’s largest rose grower, has stated that i
Lands, Resources, and Environments
 Date: April 10, 2013
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 Date: March 29, 2013
The Maasai people of Tanzania have been subjected to repeated instances of land grabbing by the Tanzanian government for many years. Most recently, the Maasai of Loliondo in the Ngorongoro District have resisted the appropriation of land from the Maasai village-controlled land for the establishment of a wildlife corridor. |
 Date: March 28, 2013
The mothers' weeping echoes through the Hup villages in the Upper Rio Negro region of Amazonas, Brazil. It is deafening. The fathers carry their children in their arms. The cemetery is opened once again; two more children are laid to rest. |
 Date: March 27, 2013
Nestled inside a narrow moat of rainforest somewhere between the famous Arenal volcano and the Nicaraguan border lies the Maleku Indigenous Reserve of Guatuso, Costa Rica. Within the three small neighborhoods inside the reserve – Palenque Tonjibe, Palenque Margarita, and Palenque El Sol – around six hundred Maleku spend their days farming the land, painting wooden masks and jícara, or gourd bowls, performing for tourists in their traditional palm clothing, or planting trees in an ongoing reforestation effort. |
 Date: March 14, 2013
Protests are ramping up again against the Keystone XL project after the US Department of State released a draft of a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) covering the pipeline route from |
 Date: February 20, 2013
Cultural Survival is accompanied by Greenpeace and dozens of other organizations in calling for Herakles Farms to own up to their abuses in Cameroon. |
 Date: February 19, 2013
In the early morning of November 20, 2012, Paraguayan national police entered the Avá-Guaraní community of Yva Poty in eastern Paraguay armed |
 Date: February 14, 2013
National Public Radio's All Things Considered is running a two-part series on the relationship between China’s need for raw materials and the exploitation of Cambodia’s resources, specifically destruction of its forests. The first part of the program is set in Prey Lang. |
 Date: February 14, 2013
Amid a flurry of recent protests, strikes, negative press, and shareholder divestment, British coal company GCM Resources’ executive Grahram Taggart resigned last week. |
 Date: February 14, 2013
Traditional Maya leaders reported that Texas-based US Capital Energy has made numerous attempts to buy support for their oil drilling project on Maya lands including those inside the Sarstoon-Temash N |
 Date: February 11, 2013
The Ethiopian government has committed egregious human rights abuses to make way for agricultural land investments, in direct violation of international law, said the Oakland Institute in a new briefing paper released in New Delhi today. The briefing paper, entitled "Unheard Voices: The Human Rights Impact of Land Investments on Indigenous Communities in Gambella,” calls on Ethiopia to put an end to the illegal forced evictions of indigenous peoples in areas targeted for land investment. |
 Date: February 11, 2013
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 Date: January 27, 2013
The 18th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place in Doha in December 2012. The COP was not expected to deliver any historical groundbreaking result, but rather lay out the roadmap for the negotiations towards the established deadline of 2015, when a global binding agreement on emissions reduction is expected to be finalized. |
 Date: January 20, 2013
The grassroots parliamentary campaign for Maasai land and human rights activist, Meitamei Olol Dapash, continues to thrive and grow throughout Maasailand, Kenya, but needs help to see victory in the polls on March 4th! |
 Date: January 14, 2013
Cambodian human rights activists showed once again that they are on cutting edge of pop culture by performing a choreographed dance to a land rights themed version of the viral video "Gangnam Style" in Phnom Penn. |
 Date: January 9, 2013
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 Date: January 8, 2013
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 Date: January 7, 2013
On December 20th, activists protesting an open-pit coal mine in Phulbari, Bangladesh dumped coal at the entrance to mining company GCM Resources in London. |
 Date: December 21, 2012
The federal task force operating in Mato Grosso will double this week to ensure the removal |
 Date: December 14, 2012
December 6, 2012 was the deadline for removal of illegal invaders in the Xavante Indigenous territory of Marãiwatsede in Mato Grosso state. The invaders remain and the situation continues to be very tense in the region. |
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