Attacks against defenders of the people’s right to land and resources have worsened in 2016, with 16 people related to the cause being killed every month, according to a report by advocacy group PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP). The number of farmers, indigenous people and advocates of people’s right to land killed this year is three times the average in 2015, the group claimed. Based on the group’s Land & Rights (L&R) Watch initiative, killings increased from 61 in 2015 to 171 this year. The victims of arbitrary detention from January to November this year numbered 118.
— source downtoearth.org.in