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Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Estimates of the amount of land held in terms of customary and Indigenous systems of land rights vary widely across contexts. According to the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), communities and Indigenous Peoples are estimated to hold as much as 65% of the world’s land area under customary systems.
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The document titled "Land Rights Policy," approved by the Land Commission of the Republic of Liberia on May 21, 2013, provides a comprehensive outline of the principles and definitions of four distinct categories of land rights: Public Land, Government Land, Customary Land, and Private Land. It offers a detailed explanation of the nature of these rights, the procedures for transfers, government acquisition, and the consequences of failing to pay the required land taxes.
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13 December 2024
As part of its efforts to promote secure land tenure in Africa, three Programmes of German Development Cooperation joined hands and brought together 120 land experts from 17 countries to discuss Responsible Land Governance Systems in Somone, Senegal on 7-11 October 2024. These were: the “Global…
6 November 2024
We are looking for a Data Management Consultant to join our open data team and support the work on data aggregation, curation, ingestion, and analysis from various sources.
31 October 2024
Between June and September 2024, a 57% increase in forest cover loss has been recorded in Saamaka territory, compared to rates observed in the previous 6 years
77% of deforestation inside Saamaka territory has occurred after the 2007 Inter-American…
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09 December 2024
Under the umbrella of the Land Dialogues series, the last webinar of this year’s series “Navigating Loss and Damage : A Path to Justice for Indigenous Peoples” took place on December 5th, 2024. The webinar drew in a little over 250 participants. The series is organized by a consortium of…
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5 December 2024
5 December 2024, 15:00-16:00 CET The Loss and Damage Fund, established at COP28, represents a crucial step toward addressing the impacts of climate change, especially for Indigenous Peoples. This webinar will explore the operationalization of the fund and examine its practical and conceptual…