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Updated Myanmar Guidebook on Customary Tenure Documentation Now Available
Mekong Region Land Governance launches an updated guidebook for documenting customary tenure in Myanmar on 9 March in Yangon.
This second edition of “Documenting Customary in Myanmar: A Guidebook” includes:
- an introduction to customary tenure concepts and principles,
- an overview of legal issues and challenges to claiming customary tenure under Myanmer’s current legal framework; and
- practical tools and resources to help people document their own customary claims.
Land Portal Masterclass on Open Data Awareness Raising at the India Land and Development Conference (ILDC)
Their forefathers were enslaved. Now, 400 years later, their children will be landowners
Rare victory for Brazilian poor, as record Amazon land tract is handed over to descendants of escaped enslaved people
It was a modest ceremony for such a significant victory: it is not every day that the descendants of enslaved people are given the title to their land. But there was no doubt of its importance at a time when the protection of Brazil’s traditional rural communities is threatened by a conservative government in league with powerful agribusiness interests.
Latin American countries sign legally binding pact to protect land defenders
New treaty compels states to investigate and punish killings and attacks on people defending their land or environment
Officials from 24 Latin American and Caribbean states have signed a legally binding environmental rights pact containing measures to protect land defenders, almost two years to the day since environmental leader Berta Cáceres was killed in her home in Honduras.
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Corruption Perceptions Index 2017 Shows High Corruption Burden In More Than Two-Thirds of Countries
Land Portal Foundation Launches Thematic Portfolio on Land and Corruption
The Land Portal Foundation has published a Thematic Portfolio on Land & Corruption to provide greater understanding and promote awareness of the intersection of these critical issues.
Institutions of land reform need to be strengthened‚ advocate says
Government needs to strengthen institutions of land reform‚ eliminate corruption and deal with bureaucracy if it wants to succeed with the new land reform proposals.
That’s according to prominent advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi.
He said this was the thrust of what President Cyril Ramaphosa announced in his state of the nation address to Parliament and what the Economic Freedom Fighters have tabled before the same house.
Mexico: Right-wing Presidential Hopeful Accused of More Corruption
Land Rights FM: Community Radio Helps Rural Women Claim What’s Theirs
Kenya’s 2010 constitution guaranteed women extensive land and property rights. But the message wasn’t getting out to the remote communities of the north until a community radio station stepped in.
GARISSA, KENYA – As sun sets on Sankuri village, a group of women take advantage of the dropping temperatures to convene their weekly business meeting.
Govt wants more representation for minority groups
If minority groups have representatives, it helps them to table issues affecting their communities, make decisions in budgeting and distribution of resources.
KAMPALA - Indigenous Peoples (IPs) commonly known as ‘minority tribes’ in Uganda, remain marginalised despite of the various government policies to transform people’s livelihood.
The commissioner culture and family affairs at the gender ministry, Juliana Akonyo Naumo, said many of the IPs remain less educated and are poor compared to other people.
Welthungerhilfe, Partners Launch Multi-Actor Partnerships on Land
Monrovia – The race for land ownership is one of big issues in Liberia that has been engulfed with multiplicity of problems ranging from insecure land tenure forms and rights; lack of land use database for state, private, and customary lands; weak land administration and management; inadequate concession practices and protective mechanisms to prevent “land-grabbing” amongst others.
These issues are causing serious problems for communities’ dwellers to get land for making their farms particularly in rural areas.