The region, on Colombia’s northwestern Caribbean coast, is the heartland of the country’s banana industry. Urabá is known for extreme political violence, which has gripped the region since the 1980s.

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In this Washington Post Live conversation from Oct. 4, filmmaker Raoul Peck discusses his new documentary, “Silver Dollar Road,” which explores the history of land dispossession of Black homeowners ...

Kenya's indigenous communities living in resource-rich regions face widespread land dispossession, environmental degradation, and exclusion from development decisions, a new report by the Kenya ...

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Indigenous nations across the United States have lost 98.9% of their historical land base, and more than 42% of tribes from the historical period through modern day do not possess federally recognized ...

In the decades since World War II, massive dispossession has destroyed black farming in America. An occupation that has defined the African American experience has nearly ceased to exist, as 98 ...

In the flood of commentary on Gaza, displacement and Israel's expanding settlement enterprise, one fundamental truth is often obscured: the Nakba did not end in 1948. It continues, and the law has ...

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The imperialist exploitation of West Asia that accelerated after the First World War has never ceased. The effects on the region have been disastrous—wars, conflicts, ecocide and ultimately genocide.

Living in anticipation of dispossession impacts villagers in the reservoir area. Government logic on development projects disregards people's refusal to move. Compensation cannot fully redress the ...