Report: Indigenous Communities Are Fighting for Land Rights More Than Ever – But Governments and Corporations Are Fighting Back
Image: Rights and Resources A new report from the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) has some good news and bad news. The good: recognition of land and resource rights for indigenous populations has been on the rise in recent years, but the bad: that increase stagnated last year, despite new governmental commitments, at least on paper, to support such rights. That means land grabs are up. “On one hand the necessity of secure rights is now widely promo… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Report: Indigenous Communities Are Fighting for Land Rights More Than Ever – But Governments and Corporations Are Fighting Back
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