Full Coverage: Land

29.07.2005 The issue of agrarian reform was at the centre of debates during the 22-23 July commemoration of the 18th anniversary of the masacre of 139 peasants in Jean Rabel (north-west).

26.07.2005 Last December's tsunami was merciless to farming communities, poisoning thousands of acres with salt and sand. But the tiny Indian village of Piryakootai--where villagers scrape off up to three feet of the salted top soil--is determined to reclaim their land and their lives.

19.07.2005 It is a scene usually reserved for Nigeria: thousands are rallying in support of impoverished villagers who refuse to let the oil multinational Shell onto their land to construct what they believe to be a dangerous pipeline. Now Shell has had the villagers jailed, but the protests in northwest Ireland are only intensifying.

19.07.2005 After evicting nearly 10,000 people from the Mau Forest complex, Kenyan officials said the evictions were simply part of the process of rectifying past misdeeds, when land titles were given away by corrupt officials as political favors. A spokesman for the Maa Civil Society Forum, however, charges that the government is targeting poor farmers, while ignoring rich landowners.

15.07.2005 A major mining scandal in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan, in which Dalits, the so-called untouchables, have been cheated out of mining land given to them by the government, has been exposed over the last few months. Now there is another problem - the upper caste people are threatening the Dalits if they report to the police.

15.07.2005 Federal laws recognizing the land rights of indigenous people in Siberia have recently been abolished, leaving people no protection against the oil, gas, and mining companies who want to develop their land. Survival International is calling for your help to protect indigenous rights by writing Russian authorities.

13.07.2005 New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) invites applications for the Fifth CSE Media Fellowships on Mining, Environment and People's Protests. The one-month scholarship begins from September 15 and the last date for applications is August 20, 2005.

05.07.2005 Kalahari Bushmen will demonstrate outside the celebrity opening of the 'Diamonds' exhibition at London's Natural History Museum on Wednesday evening, claiming that they were evicted from their land to make way for future diamond mining by the De Beers corporation.