First global funding pact launched to secure indigenous land rights

An indigenous woman carries a child on her back while walking down a road in the village of Pambach, in the Alta Verapaz region, about 209 km (130 miles) from Guatemala City, February 20, 2014. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez
Indigenous people and rural communities have customary claims to two thirds of the world’s land but are legally recognised as holding only 10 percent
By Astrid Zweynert
STOCKHOLM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indigenous people under threat from companies seeking to dev