Land rights

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• The indigenous land rights ruling that could transform Canada

  21 Oct 2014: Martin Lukacs: Indigenous rights offer a path to a radically more just and sustainable country – which is why the Canadian government is bent on eliminating them

• Who owns the moon?

  17 Oct 2014:

  Saskia Vermeylen: As states are not allowed to claim sovereign rights in outer space, land ownership on the moon and planets will in all likelihood be outlawed

• Mozambique heads to polls amid claims of Chinese landgrabs – in pictures

  15 Oct 2014: Mozambique is holding elections on Wednesday, with the ruling Frelimo party having to defend itself against accusations of landgrabs

• Women in Tanzania set for equal land rights – let’s make sure it happens

  15 Oct 2014: Jennifer Duncan and Scholastica Haule: The country’s new constitution is a great milestone, but it still has to be implemented – a challenge that also remains elsewhere in the world

• Indigenous groups give cautious welcome to deal struck at UN

  23 Sep 2014: Governments pledge to consult native groups over projects on indigenous lands and improve access to education and services

• Indigenous people and the crisis over land and resources

  23 Sep 2014: Martin Mowforth: Do indigenous groups need saving from poverty? And why do they come into conflict with conservationists seeking to protect their land?

• Righting a wrong: huge land handover to traditional Cape York owners

  23 Sep 2014: In the past decade, the Queensland government has spent more than $50m on pastoral land to return it to Indigenous owners

• Indigenous title claim settlement ‘one of the most complex’ in SA history

  2 Sep 2014: State’s acting attorney general says the Kokatha case has created certainty around tenure and land access issues

• Community control of forests could help combat climate change

  25 Jul 2014: Deforestation rates significantly lower in areas formally managed by local communities, data shows

• Land rights in Latin America: where are the voices of indigenous women?

  Guardian Professional, 23 Jul 2014:

  The lives of indigenous women in Latin America are intertwined with the forests, they are best people to involve in climate change talks

• Ethiopian farmer takes UK to court over 'brutal' resettlement policy

  15 Jul 2014: Legal battle launched after man claims he was evicted from his farm and beaten under villagisation scheme funded by UK aid

• Ethiopia's bid to uproot poverty

  9 Jul 2014: Letters: Ethiopia is one of few developing countries that will achieve most, if not all, of the millennium development goals. The resettlement programme has played its part

• Mali land grabs: 'You can take everything from a farmer but not his land' – video

  Video (4min 23sec), 7 Jul 2014:

  The development of land in Mali and other African states poses unique opportunities for business, but can often spell catastrophe for the families who have lived and farmed in these areas for generations

• 'Britain is supporting a dictatorship in Ethiopia'

  6 Jul 2014:

  David Smith: It's 30 years since Ethiopia's famine came to attention in the UK. Now, a farmer plans to sue Britain for human rights abuses, claiming its aid has funded a government programme of torture and beatings as villagers have been removed from their homes

• World Bank and UN carbon offset scheme 'complicit' in genocidal land grabs - NGOs

  3 Jul 2014:

  Nafeez Ahmed: Plight of Kenya's indigenous Sengwer shows carbon offsets are empowering corporate recolonisation of the South

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