In defense of land rights: A monitoring report on land conflicts in six Asian countries Land Watch Asia Working Group for Mainstreaming Land Rights as Human Rights Founded in 1979, the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) is a regional association of national and regional networks of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Asia actively engaged in food security, agrarian reform, sustainable agriculture, participatory governance and rural development. ANGOC network members and partners work in 10 Asian countries together with 3,000 CSOs and community-based organizations (CBOs). ANGOC actively engages in joint field programs and policy discussions with national governments, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and international financial institutions (IFIs). ANGOC is a member of the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Conserved Areas and Territories (ICCA) Consortium and the International Land Coalition (ILC). 33 Mapagsangguni Street, Sikatuna Village Diliman, 1101 Quezon City, Philippines P.O. Box 3107 QCCPO 1101, Quezon City, Philippines Tel: +63-2-3510581 Fax: +63-2-3510011 Email: angoc@angoc.org URL: www.angoc.org People’s Campaign for Agrarian Reform Network, Inc. (AR Now!) is an advocacy and campaign center for the promotion of agrarian reform and sustainable development. Its vision is to achieve peasant empowerment, agrarian and aquatic reform, sustainable agriculture and rural development. 38-B Mapagsangguni St., Sikatuna Village Diliman, 1101 Quezon City, Philippines Phone : (632) 433 0760 Fax : (632) 921 5436 Email: arnow.inc@gmail.com Association for Realisation of Basic Needs (ARBAN), a non-government development organization concerned with the fundamental rights and the basic needs of landless agricultural laborers, sharecroppers and marginalized people, was founded on 18 February 1984. It works with the rural-urban poor and powerless and indigenous people for their socio-economic, cultural, and political empowerment and emancipation from all forms of bondages including injustices, inequalities and dispossession by promoting and practicing democratic values and participatory development processes at all levels through implementing various projects and programs. House #6/2, Block #B, Lalmatia, Mohammadpur Dhaka-1207 Dhaka, Bangladesh Phone: +880 811-1321 Email: arban1984@yahoo.com Website: https://www.facebook.com/mis.arban.org/ Community Development Association (CDA) is a non-government development organization that has been facilitating the rural poor, landless and marginal farmers, the plain land Indigenous people (IP) including differently able men, women, and rural youth with a view to empower, ensure access to land rights and mobilize the peoplecentered land governance and agrarian reform upon the contextual needs and demands led by 700 village-based peoples organizations in the north-western part of Bangladesh. Community Development Association (CDA) Upa-Shahar, Block # 1, House # 51 Dinajpur-5200, Bangladesh Email: edcda08@gmail.com Phone: +880531-64428, Cell: +88(0)1713195000 Skype: jinnah1950 Web: www.cdalop.org ANGOC Community Self Reliance Centre (CSRC) has been at the forefront of land and agrarian rights campaign in Nepal. CSRC educates, organizes, and empowers people deprived of their basic rights to land to lead free, secure, and dignified lives. The organization’s programs focus on strengthening community organizations, developing human rights defenders, improving livelihoods, and promoting land and agrarian reform among land-poor farmers. Since its establishment, CSRC has constantly worked to transform discriminatory and unjust social relations by organizing landless, land poor and marginalized communities to claim and exercise their rights. Dhapasi, Kathmandu, Nepal Phone: 0977 01 4360486 / 0977 01 4357005 Fax: 0977 01 4357033 Email: landrights@csrcnepal.org Website: csrcnepal.org