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

Mongabay
Nov 25, 2025, 12:46 pm195 ptsTrendingTop
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…

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