Access to land
Deadly attack on MST settlement in São Paulo: two killed, six injured amid land disputes

The armed attack left two dead and six injured. Lula’s government pledges support for the victims and a renewed focus on agrarian reform.

Indian farmers are back at the borders of New Delhi

Farmers have been protesting the failure of successive governments to compensate farmers for land lost to urbanization and development projects.

Indigenous people from across Brazil mobilize in Brasília against land theft legislation

The mobilization seeks to pressure the STF to throw out the framework that would restricts the demarcation of Indigenous lands; the judgment will take place on Wednesday, March 7

AbM_leaders_released Abahlali baseMjondolo and the fight of the organized poor against a hostile justice system

Months after being imprisoned on a murder charge, three leaders of the eKhenana Commune of Abahlali baseMjondolo have been finally granted bail. Their arrests are part of a lengthy history of violent persecution of the shack dwellers’ movement