On 13 February 2019, the Supreme Court of India ordered the eviction of millions of forest dwellers from their lands. Shortly thereafter, Oxfam India issued a statement urging state governments to recognise the rights of these communities to “life, dignity and livelihood”. The story received international coverage, including by the… Read more
On Monday 4 February, Lawyers Against Poverty hosted a discussion at Simmons & Simmons on the theme of “Making Indigenous Land Rights a Reality”. We were honoured to have Professor Alexandra Xanthaki, Research Director at Brunel Law School, and Joss Saunders, General Counsel of Oxfam GB, to lead the… Read more
Land sustains life and is an essential economic resource. As soon as rights to land are threatened, so are the livelihoods and lives of the women, men and communities depending on it. Across the world today, 2.5 billion women and men depend on indigenous and community lands covering more than… Read more
In 2011, 769 indigenous families were accused of occupying land belonging to Chabil Utzaj (a sugar mill) and evicted by force from Polochic Valley in Guatemala. Years went by and nothing came of the commitment made by Otto Perez Molina, President of Guatemala at that time, to restore the land… Read more
Oxfam has written a report exposing the exploitation of banana farmers in the Philippines: “Land But No Freedom: Debt, Poverty and Human Suffering in the Philippine Banana Trade”. Bananas can be harvested at all times and are consequently of very significant economic value. In fact, they are among the most… Read more
On 9th December 2017 Lawyers Against Poverty held our first ever student Hackathon! This 12 hour event, held at Oxford Brookes University, focused on developing land rights and women’s rights content for a new access to justice website Oxfam is developing together with a number of other organisations. The Lawyers… Read more
