Special Report - Social unrest in Latin America III - Land (ISSN 17414474)

Land-related social unrest in Latin America is no longer confined to the demand of the landless for fair access to land. It has come to embrace also the demands of indigenous peoples for their land to be respected, understood as both their ancestral territory and their environment. It also includes the demands of the forcibly displaced for the restitution of the lands they lost to conflict, and those of the environmentalists for the protection of their surroundings. That this is the case is clearly manifest in the manner in which these various claimants have come together in forums, organisations and networks.

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