Customary Rights Now!

Thousands of problematic cases involve the conversion of customary lands. A law on customary rights is urgently needed.

April 4, 2012

Conflicts between traditional groups and companies are expected to increase, and become more difficult to resolve without any fundamental measures. There are already 2,000 such cases. Some of them have involved abuses of human rights and even led to fatalities. The most obvious cause of these conflicts is the lack of clear rules on people's customary rights to land and the resources they contain.

This lack of regulation is an irony. This nation w

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