A storm brews behind a dilapidated building in Manicaland. Zimbabwe.Photo: Robin Hammond/Panos Pictures

Where did the land go?

Despite Robert Mugabe’s redistribution programme, Zimbabweans are still desperately short of land, with cronyism and political corruption not helping matters as Cyril Zenda reports.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
Lithuanian border guards detain migrants at the roadside in Kalviai, close to the border with Belarus, July 2021.Photo: Janis Laizans/Reuters/Alamy

Pushed back and pushed on

The treatment meted out to asylum-seekers in Lithuania has hardened since Belarus opened up a migration channel into the country. Severia Bel speaks to people trapped in the political crossfire.

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NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022
The property of Mukuru Kwa Njenga residents is strewn across the ground after evictions to make way for the Nairobi Expressway, 17 November 2021.Photo: Donwilson Odhiamb/Sopa Images/Sipa USA/Alamy

Roads for the rich, tents for the poor

Kenyan social justice activist Anami Daudi Toure speaks to Amy Hall about how he and his neighbours in Nairobi’s Mukuru kwa Njenga settlement are picking up the pieces after violent mass evictions.

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NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022
TIAA member Nancy Romer takes part in a protest outside the company’s headquarters in 2017. ‘TIAA has become a leader in in greenwashing investments that are harmful to the climate and communities, their land deals have exacerbated human rights violations, contributed to environmental destruction and enabled unethical or illegal business practices,’ Doug Hertzler, a senior policy analyst for ActionAid USA, told New Internationalist. ‘We are building on this momentum to continue pushing TIAA to stop buying up farmland and repair the damage they have caused.’Photo: Brandon Wu/ActionAid

Nice little earner

What connects the retirement savings of US teachers with inflating land and food prices in Brazil? Maria Luisa Mendonça and Daniela Stefan explain.

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NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022
Around 700 families were evicted from the Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam, India in November 2017, following an order of the Guwahati High Court.Photo: Zuma Press/Alamy

For whose protection?

A target to turn 30 per cent of the world’s land into protected areas for nature by 2030 is set to be agreed by world leaders in December. But not everyone is happy about it, as Amy Hall reports.

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NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022
Image created by Julie Flett for We Sang You Home by Richard Van Camp, published by Orca Book Publishers.Illustration: Julie Flett

Land back

For generations, Indigenous-led actions have been pushing for the return of traditional lands across the US and Canada. Riley Yesno explores how that spirit has been turned into a movement – embodied in schemes to redistribute wealth from non-Indigenous hands.

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NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022
Jumma Buddhist student monks call for an end to violence in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) outside the United Nations building in Bangkok, Thailand on 5 March 2010. Their protest followed a deadly attack on Jumma villages in the CHT which resulted in several deaths.Photo: Chaiwat Subparsom/Reuters/Alamy

Unwanted attraction

For decades, Indigenous peoples in the Chittagong Hill Tracts have lived under the violence of military rule. Hana Shams Ahmed reports on how the Bangladesh government’s push for tourism in the region is further threatening their right to land.

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NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022
Land - The Facts

Land - The Facts

Whose farm?, land deals, trashing the place, city folk.

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NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022

Action & info

Initiatives, action, and further reading on land rights.

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NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022
A group of women tend to vegetables in Koyli Alpha, Senegal, in March 2019. They were taking part in the Great Green Wall project which has the ambition of restoring 100 million hectares of degraded land across the African continent by 2030.Photo: Simon Townsley/Panos Pictures

The land is ours

We depend on it for food, shelter and work, it’s a cultural marker and a source of identity – but also a site of violence and anguish. It’s time for a reckoning, writes Amy Hall.

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NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022
Who will protect the land?

Who will protect the land?

Hazel Sheffield explores how the history of failed land reform in Colombia threatens both people and planet. Illustrations by Léo Hamelin.

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NI 535 - Romani lives matter - January, 2022
Illustration: Emma Peer

Agony Uncle: Is my daughter harbouring antisemitic views?

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

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NI 531 - Vaccine equality - May, 2021
Photo: Nyani Quarmyne / Majority World

Southern Exposure: Nyani Quarmyne

Nyani Quarmyne’s bird’s-eye view of a community gathering in Ghana.

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NI 529 - The biodiversity emergency - January, 2021
Photo: Natalia Riley

The politics of grazing

Report from West Cameroon by Natalia Riley.

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NI 512 - Public ownership rises again - May, 2018
Photo: Roxana Olivera

'I will never give up my land'

Roxana Olivera talks to Goldman Environment Prize winner Máxima Acuña.

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NI 494 - Smiley-faced monopolists - July, 2016
Stop forced closures!

Stop forced closures!

Amy Hall reports on the threat to remote communities in Australia.

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NI 484 - Capitalism is spinning out of control - July, 2015
Three-year-old twin Palestinian girls pose in a doorway that's still standing after Israel's bombing campaign.EPA European Pressphoto Agency B.V. / Alamy

Cementing Gaza's suffering

Reconstruction is being hampered by Israel, which is stopping building supplies getting through, says Abedalqader Hammad.

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NI 483 - Fundamentalism - Power, politics and persuasion - June, 2015
Not on our land: Nicaraguan farmers protest against the proposed canal.Photo: Esteban Felix/AP/Press Association Images

Canal controversy in Nicaragua

Bryan Kay on a possibly calamitous plan.

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NI 482 - Global banking now - May, 2015

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Debt: which way out? May, 2024
Land rights November, 2022
Land rights November, 2022
Land rights November, 2022
Land rights November, 2022
Land rights November, 2022
Land rights November, 2022
Land rights November, 2022
Land rights November, 2022
Land rights November, 2022
Romani lives matter January, 2022
Vaccine equality May, 2021
The biodiversity emergency January, 2021
Public ownership rises again May, 2018
Smiley-faced monopolists July, 2016
Capitalism is spinning out of control July, 2015
Fundamentalism - Power, politics and persuasion June, 2015
Global banking now May, 2015
Organ trafficking May, 2014
Time to rethink disability November, 2013
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