By: Rina Chandran
Date: September 2nd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women in parts of conflict-hit central and eastern India are more vulnerable to violence and eviction from their land because a decades-long insurgency has made it harder for them to claim equal land rights, according to a new study.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 1st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Countries will be unable to meet their climate change pledges unless they secure land rights for people living in the world's tropical forests, indigenous leaders told an international conference of regional governors meeting in Mexico.
By: Siraje Lubwama
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Observer
Capt Gertrude Njuba, the head of the State House Land department, wants the proposed amendments to the Land Act to include strict provisions that make it extremely difficult for courts of law and land agents to aid land grabbing.
By: Seth J. Bokpe
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: Graphic.com
Ghana needs to regulate and limit the size of land companies can acquire for any purposes, including real estate and agriculture.
This was the view of participants in a workshop to disseminate the findings of a research on large-scale land acquisition and its impact on women in Africa.
By: Alisa Tang
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Activists have called on U.S. President Barack Obama to press Laos on its human rights record on issues such as illegal land concessions and forced evictions, when he visits the Communist country next week.
By: Richard Hackett
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: The Independent.ie
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: August 30th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Brazil's Amazon where no-one knows who exactly owns a swathe of territory the size of Ukraine, a lack of formal property deeds is causing conflict, greater deforestation and environmental damage, researchers said on Tuesday.
By: Naresh Sankepally
Date: August 26th 2016
Source: The Hans India
Hyderabad: In an explosive finding the Task Force Committee constituted by the State Government, which probed encroachment of lands, has concluded that thousands of acres of land in and around Hyderabad have been encroached upon with the tacit connivance of certain bigwigs.
By: Betty Mutesi (International Alert)
Date: August 23rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
In rural Rwanda, as in most developing countries, owning and controlling land determines whether you are rich or poor. In a country where some 57% of the population live below the poverty line, land is a prime resource.
By: Bongani Mthethwa
Date: August 21st 2016
Source: Sowetan Live
The pilot project‚ which was unveiled at the Westcliffe Farm near Greytown outside Pietermaritzburg‚ was to have been officially launched by President Jacob Zuma.
By: Darshan Kunwar|
Date: August 20th 2016
Source: The Times of India
DEHRADUN: Three weeks after the state government issued an order granting ownership rights to 2,500 families living in 123 slums and low-lying localities, chief minister Harish Rawat on Saturday said that the process to regularize their land will begin from October 2.
