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By Barbara Fraser, Freelance Journalist for the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
A Harakmbut indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon has no say over the 17 gold-mining concessions overlapping its territory, despite holding a title to the land. Meanwhile in Uganda, a…
Date: 06 janvier 2016
Source: Viacampesina.org
Proposition de la Coordination Européenne Via Campesina
Vers une compréhension et une définition commune de l’accaparement des terres dans le monde entier.
Aucune définition complète de l’accaparement des terres réunissant toutes les…
From November 28 to December 23, 2016, Land Portal hosted a successful Land Debate on land valuation and fair compensation. The debate focused on the question of what is fair compensation for land in cases of land tenure changes (e.g. expropriations and voluntary land transfers), and what measures…
Until now, a comprehensive study of national-level expropriation, compensation, and resettlement procedures in 50 countries across has not been conducted. My PhD research project, facilitated by the University of Groningen Faculty of Law, aims to bridge this gap by providing a broad comparative…
By Bruce H. Moore, former Director of ILC Secretariat
Whereas the property rights of poor people were previously seen as a call for social justice, today land rights are understood to also be at the nexus of the economic, environmental, political and social order.
The foundation for…
Date: 3 mars 2017
Source: Fao.org
Par Fao
Les communautés locales ont besoin d’aide afin d’atténuer les conflits opposant les populations à la faune.
Il est essentiel d'impliquer activement les populations autochtones et les communautés locales dans les efforts visant à conserver la faune…
By Rachel Crome, Digital editor at Amnesty International
If there’s one thing we learned from January’s historic Women’s March, it’s that women are fed up of waiting. More than 3 million people – of all genders – marched worldwide for women’s rights, spurred on by US President Donald Trump’s…
Este es un artículo de opinión de Monique Barbut, subsecretaria general de la ONU y secretaria ejecutiva de la Convención de Lucha contra la Desertificación. Forma parte de la cobertura especial de IPS con motivo del Día Internacional de la Mujer, el 8 de marzo
El Día Internacional de la…
By Noel Taylor, Cadasta Foundation CEO
As more than 1,000 global leaders in land rights gather in Washington, D.C., next week for the annual World Bank Land and Poverty conference, there will, no doubt, be much discussion focused on gathering data to measure global progress toward documenting and…
By Chris Jochnick, President and CEO of Landesa
The development community has experienced various “revolutions” over the years – from microfinance to women’s rights, from the green revolution to sustainable development. Each of these awakenings has improved our understanding of the challenges we…
A Q&A with researcher Anne Larson on the changing conditions of rights and resources in discussion at the World Bank Land and Poverty Conference
Over the past two decades, a global trend has seen increasing recognition of the rights of communities and local governments to manage their…
By Yuliya Panfil, Omidyar Network
One in four people are worried about losing their home against their will in the next five years, according to a nine-country Gallup-led survey on people’s perceptions of their property rights. The survey, which polled 11,000 people across Peru, Colombia, Brazil…