Rights to millions of hectares of Indigenous & local communities’ lands restored by ‘barefoot lawyers’

Rights to millions of hectares of Indigenous & local communities’ lands restored by ‘barefoot lawyers’

Nonette Royo is a lawyer from the Philippines and executive director of The Tenure Facility, a group of “barefoot lawyers” working to secure land tenure for Indigenous, local and Afro-descendant communities across the world. To date, the organization has secured more than $150 million in funding and has made progress in securing land rights covering 34 million hectares (84 million acres) across 35 projects, an area larger than Greece. Royo joins…

Rights to millions of hectares of Indigenous & local communities’ lands restored by ‘barefoot lawyers’

Nonette Royo is a lawyer from the Philippines and executive director of The Tenure Facility, a group of "barefoot lawyers" working to secure land tenure for Indigenous, local and Afro-descendant communities across the world. To date, the organization has secured more than $150 million in funding and has made progress in securing land rights covering 34 million hectares (84 million acres) across 35 projects, an area larger than Greece. Royo joins…