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WFP reinforces response to severe floods in Myanmar

Published on: August 26, 2024
11:49

United Nations, Aug 26 (Prensa Latina) The World Food Program (WFP) today confirmed the distribution of emergency aid in response to severe flooding that affected more than half a million people in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Delta.

Israel confiscates more Palestinian land despite worldwide rejection

Published on: July 4, 2024
13:39

Ramallah, Jul 4 (Prensa Latina) Israel expropriated another 12,715 dunums of land (some 1,271 hectares) in the West Bank, the Palestinian Committee of Resistance to the Wall and Settlements denounced today.

Israel confiscated thousands of hectares of Palestinian land in 2023

Published on: March 29, 2024
11:39

Ramallah, Mar 29 (Prensa Latina) Israel confiscated 50,526 dunams of Palestinian land (just over five thousand hectares) in 2023, almost twice the figure of the previous year, the Central Bureau of Statistics denounced today.

Siekopai people celebrate Court decision to return territories

Published on: November 29, 2023
10:35

Quito, Nov 29 (Prensa Latina) The indigenous people of the Amazonian Siekopai celebrated the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador to return their territories after being displaced in the 1940s by a war with Peru.

Syrians from the Golan protest against an Israeli project

Published on: June 20, 2023
11:09

Damascus, Jun 20 (Prensa Latina) The residents of the Syrian Golan, occupied by Israel since June 1967, protested today to prevent the construction of dozens of wind turbines on their agricultural lands.

Brazilian originary people remain mobilized after pause in land trial

Published on: June 9, 2023
07:48

Brasilia, Jun 9 (Prensa Latina) Indigenous leaders announced that the mobilization against the so-called temporary framework affecting native land rights will continue on successive days after the interruption of the trial in the Brazilian Supreme Court.

FAO organizes workshop for Cuban farmers

Published on: March 24, 2023
13:09

Havana, Mar 24 (Prensa Latina) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with the Embassy of the Netherlands, organized a workshop for Cuban food producers, an official report said on Friday.

Cutbacks to the Colonization Institute are rejected in Uruguay

Published on: October 8, 2021
11:06

Montevideo, Oct 8 (Prensa Latina) The 'Frente Amplio' (Broad Front) of Uruguay rejected today the cut of 50 percent of resources of the Colonization Institute (INC), which the Government presented as a solution to a questioned detour of funds.

Uruguayan government agrees on funds for land colonization

Published on: October 7, 2021
11:15

Montevideo, Oct 7 (Prensa Latina) The coalition of parties in the government of Uruguay reached an agreement today to allocate budget items to irregular settlements without leaving the National Colonization Institute (INC) without funds.

Indigenous protest continues in Brazil over indigenous lands ruling

Published on: August 26, 2021
09:52

Brasilia, Aug 26 (Prensa Latina) About six thousand indigenous people from 176 ethnic groups continue here today with their protest to put pressure on the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to reject a proposal that will hurt the future of the demarcation of ancestral lands.

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