Sentence examples for indigenous lands from inspiring English sources

Return of indigenous lands expropriated for mining and oil development.

For example, the government delays identifying and demarcating indigenous lands - the main cause of violence.

One symbolically important step with practical consequences has been the demarcation of indigenous lands.

Sponsorship masks BP's role in destroying indigenous lands, arming dictatorships, and wrecking our climate.

The Belo Monte mega-dam alone affects 12 indigenous lands and 21 maroon communities.

By protecting existing indigenous lands [countries] are actually contributing to those commitments," said Ding.

Those that remain are on indigenous lands or in nature reserves.

Pinochet opened indigenous lands to privatisation, unleashing a bitter dispute between the 600,000-strong Mapuche and the state.

He pointed out that more than 50% of surviving global biodiversity, including forests, is found on indigenous lands.

The clash of views on the centuries-old practice is part of a broader debate over the sovereignty and proper management of indigenous lands.

Breaking with the doctrine would not reverse the expropriation of indigenous lands but it would, the commission thinks, help aboriginal people come to terms with it.