This new video by LifeMosaic features communities explaining why their territory is important to them and why secure tenure and land rights are crucial. It’s another video in the series “Territories of Life“.
Tag: Indigenous Peoples
Open letter from Amnesty International to Brazil’s President about violations of the rights of the Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous People
At the end of September 2015, Brazil submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution to the UNFCCC. The introduction to the INDC states that Brazil is committed respecting human rights, including those of indigenous populations.
Land rights: “Our territory belongs to us and we belong to our territory”
LifeMosaic’s new video on “Land Rights” takes a look at three different types of land rights: community concessions on state land, individual land ownership and communal ownership of territory. It’s the fourth in LifeMosaic’s series “Territories of Life“.
Company tactics: How corporations take community lands
This new video from LifeMosaic describes the tactics that companies use to convince communities to accept and support their projects. It’s the third in LifeMosaic’s series “Territories of Life”.
Land grabs: LifeMosaic’s second video in the series Territories of Life
Grains, meat, sugar, palm oil, pulp and paper, coal, aluminium, copper, gold, oil. Just some of the commodities that corporations take from the lands of indigenous peoples to ship around the world in order to generate profits.