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Repost From @globallandscapesforum: "🦸 How can #rights contribute to a more just and sustainable future? At the upcoming #GLFBonn2019 summit, #Indigenous leaders will come together as the centerpiece of more than 1,000 participants to represent some of the world’s most vulnerable and marginalized communities in answering this question. . Here are some of the #women whose voices will be heard. 🦸 . The sheer urgency of a melting Arctic caused by #climatechange is captured in the poetry of Inuk activist Niviâna – one of six #indigenous female activists you can hear this weekend at #glfbonn2019 #thinklandscape. . Filmmaker Emmanuela Shinta tells stories of discrimination against Borneo’s Dayak people while empowering young Dayaks to document their island’s destruction and stand up for their rights. . Sônia Guajajara knew she wouldn’t win Brazil’s presidential election but her real campaign was promoting Indigenous rights in Brazil – a cause she’s pioneered as leader of Brazil’s Indigenous People Articulation. . Graphic designer Jolene Yazzie draws inspiration from comics, material arts and Navajo history for illustrations portraying Indigenous women as warriors. . Hear from all these inspiring women at #glfbonn2019 on 22 – 23 June. Link in bio! @globallandscapesforum 💚 . #landrightsnow #landrights @unenvironment @wrieurope @cifor_forests @nasaclimatechange @conservationorg @ecoagriculture @ecosia @fsc_international @rare_org @global_environment_facility @leonardodicaprio @leonardodicapriofdn" #JCDFoundation https://www.instagram.com/p/By2Kd7EJ-oR/?igshid=1rky9v20xdl74

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Ayyyyyyy #CATALPA @CANOPYTHREadS #REFORESTATION #LandRightsNow #HereInEarth (at Arch Street Meeting House)

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The Indigenous Mbororo Community in Cameroon joined the global campaign for the protection of land rights during the International Earth day celebration

''Securing our land means securing our lives which implies a secure future''

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#Repost @minasetra (@get_repost) ・・・ The beautiful dense forest of Long Melaham, in Mahulu District, East Kalimantan. I feel its calling. Imagine one day, wake up and having morning coffee with this view right in front of you. I miss being with the community again. #forest #forestforthefuture #indigenouspeoples #saveforest #landrightsnow #guardianoftheforests #eastkalimantan Photo : @aman.kaltim

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#Repost @opensocietyfoundations with @get_repost ・・・ Sara Seki-Mountain, 21, is Ojibwe and a member of Red Lake Nation in northern Minnesota. Seki-Mountain works with the Food Initiative, a program whose goal is to bring food sovereignty to the Red Lake Indian Reservation. ⠀ ⠀ For centuries, the Ojibwe people have lived in Red Lake, Minnesota. It is with an eye to this long history that tribal peoples living on the Red Lake Indian Reservation have decided to reclaim their food sovereignty—and preserve their cultural identity—by feeding themselves entirely with wild game, and cultivated and wild crops from within the reservation. In this series, Sarah Stacke (@sarah_stacke) shares dispatches from this indigenous land rights and food sovereignty project.⠀ ⠀ #opensociety #redlakereservation #ojibwe #landrightsnow #indigenous #foodsovereignty #foodsecurity #foodsystems https://www.instagram.com/p/BnkhnT6HKfG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xv4id5retji2

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Rural World; The #Land is for the dead, the present and the future generations. Their will be no #FoodSecurity without #LandRights and #LandGovernance. @LandRightsNow @CELEP_FP @ILCAfrique @RECONCILE1999 @CEMIRIDE_KE @ILC_Rangelands @IFAD @FAO @IGADLGP @GlobalLF @KLandalliance pic.twitter.com/F8Wqyyp3aY

— World Pastoralist Forum (WPF) (@WorldPastoral) January 17, 2020

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An important analysis on the proposed dangerous amendments to India Forest Act The Indian Forest Act’s proposed amendment is dangerous and fancifulhttps://t.co/0QBIP8uijN @nit_set @samar11 @LandRightsNow @LRI_India @INCIndia @BJP4India @HemantSorenJMM @jigneshmevani80

— Forest Rights (@ForestRightsAct) May 3, 2019

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🌅Equality is nurtured by #AUTHENTICINTERACTION #RENTISTHEFT #LANDRIGHTSNOW

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The lost village of Gansé

Blog by Gwendolyn Parami

What do you see in this picture? It looks like a peaceful lake surrounded by lush greenery, doesn’t it?

I took this picture last year when I was visiting the place my grandparents used to live. It is actually the Brokopondo water reservoir in the jungle of Suriname. About 60 years ago, around 5000 people used to live in this area. One of those villages was called Gansé, and according to the stories of my grandmother, it was beautiful. However, the villages including Gansé, disappeared under water with the construction of a dam and the creation of the water reservoir. The communities did not have secured land rights and with promises of a better life somewhere else, they were forced to abandon their homes.

Unfortunately the promises were not realized. The only visible proof of the communities living there, many years ago, are thousands of dead tree tops rising above the water’s surface. In an effort to save money, the trees were not cut down before flooding the area.  The reservoir is now one of the largest reservoirs in the world and the dam provides electricity to industries involved in the processing of bauxite into alumina.

Not only in Suriname, but also in the rest of the world, indigenous and local communities are vulnerable to pressures from more powerful actors as they don’t have formally recognized land rights. Land is an essential part of their cultural identity and a way to survive and develop. That is why I am supporting the Land Rights Now Campaign at Oxfam Novib. This is a Global Call to Action and we aim to engage and mobilize communities, organizations, governments, and individuals worldwide to promote and secure Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ land rights.

How the rotten smell of the earth can save your life

Working on the campaign with an amazing team of passionate people has made me realize how fundamental land rights are for indigenous peoples and local communities, but also for all of us. Last week, I conducted an interview with an indigenous woman living in the mountains of Taiwan. She explained that many indigenous peoples in the country have suffered from the typhoons that are frequently occurring because of climate change.

Her community started a project that includes the creation of early disaster warning systems based on the documentation of traditional knowledge from the indigenous peoples living in the high risk areas.  She explained: “Just before a landslide, you can feel the ground changing, you can smell a distinct rotten smell and you can see the color of the river changing. You can hear the rocks running from the mountains and the different sizes of the rocks tell you what stage the landslide is”. This knowledge is now used to build an early disaster warning system in many areas of the country. Read more here.

Indigenous peoples are “living encyclopedias” with in-depth knowledge of every aspect of the environment. They are finding innovative and practical solutions for fighting climate change by drawing on their traditional knowledge. They protect the forests and biodiversity, manage lands, sequester carbon, and preserve our ecosystem. Recognizing the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities is therefore not only key to fighting climate change, but also to ensure that communities, such as the one in Gansé, are not forced to move from their ancestral lands.

Gwendolyn is interning at our land rights now campaign, writing down the stories of displaced people and fighting to make land rights a right! 

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#native #nativeamerican #indigenous #nativepride #firstnation #firstnations #firstpeoples #indigenouspeople #aboriginal #nativeamericans #indigenouspride #navajo #nativewomen #nativeamericanpride #nativeculture #indigenouswomen #tarsands #keystonexl #nopipeline #nokeystonexl #keystonepipeline #oilsands #stoptransmountain #notransmountain #waterislife #stopline3 #landrightsnow #waterrights #indigenouspeoplesday #wearestillhere — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/b6oOJkW

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In conclusion, signalboosting @zinneducationproject :⠀ ⠀ In the US, "Columbus Day" is a national holiday, celebrating a man who kidnapped, killed and enslaved Native Americans, wiping out entire regions of people and stealing their land. Join the #abolishcolumbusday movement to rename this national holiday to #indigenouspeoplesday. Tag friends and share to spread the word.⠀ ⠀ #indigenouspeoplesday #columbusday #decolonize #weareindigenous #idlenomore #abolishcolumbusday #landrightsnow #intersectionalfeminism #brownface #socialjustice #AmericanIndianMovement #nativeamerican #nohonorinracism

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Getting Our Priorities Straight: Why Indigenous and Community Land Rights Matter in the Light of Global Challenges

Many of us have been raised with the idea that you do not take what does not belong to you. This is, however, not always so obvious. Every single day, especially in the developing world, people are driven off their land for the sake of foreign investments. In the last decade alone foreign investments have led to the acquisition of more than 81 million acres of land worldwide –an area the size of Portugal-, with unspeakable consequences for many rural and forest dwellers across the world. This is caused by the widespread and enduring lack of clarity and recognition of indigenous and community land and resource rights. When land rights are weak or insecure Indigenous Peoples and local communities risk losing access to land and resources they heavily depend on. Unfortunately insecurity of land tenure is commonplace in the developing world. Today the ownership of roughly half of the rural forest and dryland areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America is contested, placing the lives and livelihoods of at least two billion people at risk.

Securing and protecting that ownership is not only of great importance for social and economic development, but also for progress on human rights, food security, environmental conservation and confronting and adapting to climate change. This is due to the fact that land rights contribute to a diverse range of benefits and social values. As shown in a compiled report by the International Land Coalition (ILC), access to land rights is linked to food security, productivity, well-being and dignity, empowerment, gender equality and environmental protection. That means that securing indigenous and community land and resource rights is key in the face of global challenges, such as eradicating hunger and poverty, promoting gender equality and ensuring environmental protection. Moreover, as stated by Jenny Springer in a guest blog from the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), ‘explicit inclusion of secure land rights for local communities and Indigenous Peoples is key to “leaving no one behind” in global sustainable development goals’.

Many organizations worldwide have come to acknowledge the need to join hands in securing indigenous and community land and resource rights. During the 2013 Interlaken Conference on Scaling-up Strategies to Secure Community Land and Resources Rights this has led to the development of The Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights. Guided by the ILC, RRI and Oxfam, the Global Call to Action has the goal ‘to double the area of land recognized as owned or controlled by indigenous peoples and local communities by 2020’. Building on the efforts of existing networks and organizations, this global network is set to facilitate greater collaboration and collective action around the world. Through these efforts change will happen by enabling and supporting the recognition, implementation, and upholding of indigenous and community land rights at the national level, which is where rights and tenure governance institutions are determined. Only then will we move forward, while leaving no one behind.

To draw attention to, and move towards the stated goal of, the Global Call to Action, Oxfam, ILC and RRI are organizing a Policy Roundtable on ‘Scaling up strategies to secure Indigenous and Community Land Rights’ at the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty. At this invited session experiences from local communities and civil society organizations around the world are brought together to serve as an opportunity to build and expand collaborations, commitments and investments for strengthening indigenous and community land rights from local to global scales. The speakers, including Samuel Nguiffo, Richard Smith, Peter Veit, Jennifer Corpuz and Rachael Knight, will highlight the current challenges that undermine tenure security for indigenous and community land right and will identify concrete examples of positive change that should be supported and up-scaled.

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