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PH deadliest for land defenders? PNP says survey may have missed 'communist' factor

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 31 05:12 PM

The Philippine National Police on Wednesday said Britain-based human rights group Global Witness "may have missed [a] point in its survey" when it tagged the Philippines as the world's deadliest nation for land rights. Read more »

Philippines is world's deadliest nation for land rights: campaign group

Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Updated as of Jul 30 02:24 PM

More than 3 people were murdered each week last year while protecting their land from encroaching industries, a human rights group said on Tuesday, with a 4-fold increase in killings related to conflicts over water. Read more »

Philippine radio station tunes into indigenous land rights

Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Updated as of Dec 06 07:27 AM

A community radio station in the Philippines is drawing attention to the struggles of indigenous Lumad people, whose rights to ancestral land and resources are increasingly under threat from industrialization. Read more »

In battles over land rights, activists are branded as criminals, U.N. says

Karla Mendes, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Aug 28 04:08 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO - Governments and corporations are increasingly using legal persecution to portray indigenous activists as criminals and terrorists, putting them at heightened risk of violence, the United Nations said on Monday. Read more »

Campaigners call for more protection to stop killings over land

Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Mar 27 01:07 AM

BANGKOK - Governments in Asia are not doing enough to stop conflicts over land and resources getting increasingly bloody, according to activists who are calling for a regional pact to protect people from violence in land disputes. Read more »