Indigenous and traditional farming communities pay a high price for taking a stand against large-scale extractive, agribusiness, and development projects threatening their land. Repressive tactics by state and non-state actors work to silence dissent and allow profitable business ventures to proceed. Despite international mechanisms designed to protect these communities, they continue to suffer land rights violations and environmental degradation, and their advocates continue to be threatened and attacked. What more can governments, business, international institutions, and civil society do to make these protection mechanisms more effective?...Keynote speakers: James Anaya, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples[,] Michael Mansfield QC, leading UK civil rights lawyer[,] Nick Matthieson, investigative journalist, author of the report Piping Profits