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Indigenous people fighting for land rights [1]

Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up more than half of all land globally, but they legally own just 10 percent.

Publication Date: 
10/08/2018
Thompson Reuters Foundation (TRUST) [2]
Tags:
Land [3], Tribals [4], Global [5], Land Encroachments [6], Land Ownership [7], Mining [8], Agriculture [9]
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