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Meet the Experts: Q&A with Frances Seymour

  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
Frances Seymour
  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation

Indigenous Rights Must Be Protected During Brazil’s Political Crisis

  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
4,000 indigenous activists demonstrated for their rights in April.
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

By the Numbers: Indigenous and Community Land Rights

  • Climate Resilience
  • International Climate Action
  • deforestation
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Aerial view of Amazon rainforest near Manau
  • Climate Resilience
  • International Climate Action
  • deforestation
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Brazil’s Proposed Environmental Laws Would Weaken Indigenous Rights, Forfeit Billions in Economic Benefits

  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Yudja man in Amazon forest
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Insights

Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Are the World’s Secret Weapon in Curbing Climate Change

  • COP22
  • Paris Agreement
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • Forests
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Brazilian state of Acre
  • COP22
  • Paris Agreement
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • Forests
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Protecting Indigenous Land Rights Makes Good Economic Sense

  • deforestation
  • Economics
  • Climate
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
River in Colombia
  • deforestation
  • Economics
  • Climate
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Economics
  • climate finance
  • land rights
  • Economics
  • climate change
  • land rights

3 Reasons Property Rights Are Essential for Healthy Ecosystems

  • Freshwater
  • conservation
  • land rights
Filipino farmers plowing rice field with carabao
  • Freshwater
  • conservation
  • land rights

Indigenous Peoples and Communities Face Growing Barriers to Land Ownership

  • human rights
  • land rights
  • poverty
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Indigenous community in Peru
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • poverty
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Indigenous Land Rights: How Far Have We Come and How Far Do We Have to Go?

  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Indigenous People in Peru
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Why Are Women Left Out of Land Decisions, Despite Gender Equity Laws?

  • Equity & Governance
  • Gender
  • human rights
  • land rights
Indigenous women, Philippines
  • Equity & Governance
  • Gender
  • human rights
  • land rights

6 Ways to Bring Land Expropriation Laws Up to International Standards

  • human rights
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

4 Big Reasons Why Land Rights Matter

  • Paris Agreement
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
A farmer in Babati, Tanzania.
  • Paris Agreement
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Strengthening Indigenous Land Rights: 3 Challenges to “Free, Prior and Informed Consent”

  • human rights
  • land rights
  • mapping
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Pack horse
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • mapping
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

3 Reasons Why Community Land Rights Are Not Legally Secure in Many Countries

  • human rights
  • land rights
  • natural resources
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Isangi people on the Congo river
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • natural resources
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Death of Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres Underscores the Need for Environmental Democracy

  • environmental democracy
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • poverty
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Berta Cáceres works with the people of Rio Blanco to set up a road blockade in protest of a dam.
  • environmental democracy
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • poverty
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

A New Global Goal: Doubling Community and Indigenous Land by 2020

  • human rights
  • land rights
  • mapping
rice harvesting
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • mapping