In this post, Barbara Oosters and Saskia van Veen discuss how associations working on land rights deal with a shrinking civic space
Defenders of land rights all over the world struggle with shrinking civic space. The more that space for people to peacefully claim their land rights is restricted, the more intense land disputes become. In 2017, Global witness recorded that globally an unprecedented number of 197 land rights defenders were killed.
A recent Oxfam Novib learning lab identified strategies for associations working in the area of land rights to deal with an environment of shifting and shrinking civic space.
Read the full post - The Battle is on: Civic Space & Land Rights
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