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INFOGRAPHIC: Experience the Unequal Ways Communities and Companies Get Land Rights

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

As Indigenous Groups Wait Decades for Land Titles, Companies Are Acquiring Their Territories

  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • natural resources
  • commodities
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Shipibo-Konibo
  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • natural resources
  • commodities
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

5 Ways Indigenous Groups Are Fighting Back Against Land Seizures

  • Forests
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Indigenous people in Ecuador
  • Forests
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Insights

For Indigenous Peoples, Losing Land Can Mean Losing Lives

  • human rights
  • land rights
  • poverty
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance
Children in Siem Reap, Cambodia
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • poverty
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • Equity & Governance

Women Get Shortchanged in Commercial Land Deals—Despite National Commitments to Gender Equality

  • Equity & Governance
  • Sustainable Development Goal 5
  • Gender
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Woman in Tanzania.
  • Equity & Governance
  • Sustainable Development Goal 5
  • Gender
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

4 Environmental Activists Are Murdered Every Week. A New Agreement Could Help in Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Equity & Governance
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • environmental democracy
  • human rights
  • environmental justice
  • public participation
Rally in a Colombian town
  • Equity & Governance
  • Sustainable Development Goal 16
  • environmental democracy
  • human rights
  • environmental justice
  • public participation

RELEASE: New LandMark Data Measure Impacts of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Forests and Climate

  • Forests
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • land rights
  • Forests
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • land rights

5 Maps Show How Important Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Are to the Environment

  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • mapping
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
indigenous people
  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • mapping
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

At COP23, Prioritizing Adaptation and Addressing Loss and Damage

  • Climate Resilience
  • COP23
  • climate change
Hurricane Maria's devastating effect on Puerto Rico won't escape notice at COP.
  • Climate Resilience
  • COP23
  • climate change
News

RELEASE: WRI Honors Darren Walker and Feike Sijbesma at “Courage to Lead” Celebration

  • carbon pricing
  • land use
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
  • carbon pricing
  • land use
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate change
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

Land Ruling Threatens Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples and Climate Commitments

  • Forests
  • National Climate Action
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
view of Chapada Diamantina in Brazil
  • Forests
  • National Climate Action
  • land rights
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Sailors transport evacuees during Hurricane Irma relief
  • Climate Resilience
  • hurricanes

Meet the Experts: Q&A with Frances Seymour

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