News & Resources: ‘Land Rights’
India’s Dayamani Barla wins the first Ellen L. Lutz Indigenous Rights Award
May 16, 2013
Pioneering Indian journalist and indigenous activist Dayamani Barla will receive Cultural Survival’s first-ever Ellen L. Lutz Indigenous Rights Award on May 23 in recognition of her outstanding human rights work and dedication to indigenous people’s rights.
Read moreWhy indigenous activists fight
May 13, 2013
Indigenous activists around the world are fighting for their identities and their very survival. Ivan Torafing, an advisor to Global Greengrants Fund’s Next Generation Climate Board and an indigenous youth leader with Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network, shares why they keep going in the face of worsening criminalization.
Read moreGrassroots activism’s unsung role in saving Indonesia’s rainforest
Feb 20, 2013
In a major step forward for global climate and human rights, paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper has promised to stop bulldozing Indonesia’s rainforests. But in attributing APP’s new policy solely to market pressure, U.S. media have glaringly omitted the role grassroots activists have and will continue to play in holding APP accountable for its environmental and human rights record.
Read moreFiring up Canada’s indigenous rights movement
Jan 29, 2013
We talk about Canada’s indigenous rights and environmental justice movement with Corvin Russell, an indigenous rights activist in Toronto and an original organizer for Defenders of the Land, a Global Greengrants Fund grantee.
Read moreA 250-mile Paddling Trek for the Wild Farm River Watershed
Aug 23, 2012
From August 24 to September 7, a team of paddlers from the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) Indigenous Nation will venture 250 mi from their remote fly-in community to Hudson’s Bay. The message: “Respect our protection before this sacred landscape is poisoned by the diamond, gold, and metals mining companies who have set their sights on it.”
Read moreTragic Week in Paraguay
Jun 27, 2012
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has just been removed from office by Congress. It started with the massacre of landless peasants in Curuguaty on June 15th. This is a first-hand account explaining the chain of events that have shaken the country from the Curuguaty deaths to Lugo’s overthrow.
Read moreGrantee’s Film Featured in International Online Film Festival
Jun 27, 2011
The film Blue Gold changed the course of a proposed mining project in British Columbia. Now you can celebrate this production by watching and voting for it in the Green Unplugged online film festival.
Read moreUndermining Access to Land by Mining and Oil Extraction
Apr 25, 2011
In Western Africa, most people are in rural areas, where they live completely from their land. The global hunger for oil, minerals, and other of Africa’s resources is pushing millions off their land.
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