By: Aslam Shah
Date: February 19th 2016
Source: Daily Times
KARACHI: Thousands of innocent Karachiites are being deprived of their hard-earned lifetime saving in shape of properties encroached upon by the 'katchi abadis'.
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: Latin American Herald Tribune
BANGKOK – Sea gypsy communities on southern Thailand’s Phuket island have engaged in a ritual ceremony to pray for land rights after the Ministry of Justice less than two weeks ago called on the provincial Department of Land to revoke their land titles to 33 rai (5.28 hectares) of coast, local media reports.
By: Leon Louw
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: Business Day Live
WHEN people own their homes they take home tins of paint instead of bottles of brandy. But for many black households a generation after apartheid ended little has changed; they still do not own their homes and kraals. Land dispossession, apartheid’s greatest travesty, lives on.
Date: February 7th 2016
Source: Rainforest Rescue
By: Evelyn Lirri
Date: February 9th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
KAMPALA, Feb 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As candidates canvass for votes in Uganda's Feb. 18 presidential election, contenders are promising sweeping reforms to resolve land conflicts, one of the country's hottest political issues.
By: Elizabeth Roche
Date: February 8th 2016
Source: Live Mint
By: Rubeena Mahato
Date: February 5th 2016
Source: Nepali Times
In the larger scheme of things, the petty games that politicians play to keep themselves relevant should not matter much. They have done it year after year, decade after decade — it’s the same plot and even the characters are the same.
By: Patrick Langat
Date: February 4th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
The National Land Commission and the Ministry of Education have directed schools to acquire title deeds.
Only 7,000 of the 32,000 schools countrywide have the documents, NLC chairman Mohammad Swazuri said.
Dr Swazuri said that about 9,000 schools applied for title deeds following President Uhuru Kenyatta's directive in January last year.
By: Baher Kamal
Date: February 1st 2016
Source: Inter Press Service / AllAfrica.com
Cairo — Despite the enormous challenges facing Africa now, the leaders of its 1.2 billion plus inhabitants have decided to spotlight the issue of Human Rights With a Particular Focus on the Rights of Women in their 26th summit held in Addis Ababa on 21-31 January this year. Why?
By: Francis Mugerwa, George Muzoora & Ronald Tumusiime
Date: January 31st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor
Gomba — President Museveni has promised to introduce an amendment to the land law to improve land tenure security and curb the tide in illegal evictions that the current law has failed to stop.
