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22 May 2017
In countries like Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar, tens of thousands face eviction with few tools to fight back
Residents of a village in Hanoi's outskirts took 38 officials and policemen hostage recently in protest against what they claimed was the illegal seizure of their land by a…
6 April 2017
There are serious concerns that government reforms will further exacerbate land tenure and food insecurity for the majority of the population in Myanmar who rely on their farm fields and forests for their livelihoods.
There has been a wave of land grabbing on an unprecedented scale in Myanmar…
3 April 2017
The Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development and the Mekong Land Research Forum will run a week-long intensive summer school on land research in the Mekong Region. The purpose of the summer school is to equip early-career academic and advocacy-oriented researchers with key…
8 March 2017
As the world marks International Women's Day on Wednesday, six women from different countries in Southeast Asia received recognition from advocacy group Amnesty International for their "heroism" in standing up for human rights despite the criminalization and violence they have faced.
The group…
23 February 2017
Date: 23 February 2017
Source: Gulf Times
Some 350 farmers from Myanmar's Mandalay region are facing court cases related to land-grabbing, most of them brought since Aung San Suu Kyi's government took power a year ago, lawyers and activists said Thursday.
Anger among the rural poor over…
[From Democratic Voice of Burma] Police have detained an activist on charges of breaching Burma’s notorious Video Act after he allegedly filmed a protest by landless farmers in Irrawaddy division two months ago. Myint Naing’s house in the division’s capital of Bassein was surrounded by some 30…
Via Human Rights Watch
AUGUST 15, 2015
Burma: Land Rights Activists Are Newest Political Prisoners
Arrests in Karen State Target Those Assisting Farmers Fighting Land Grabs
(Bangkok) – Burmese authorities should immediately stop using abusive laws on association and expression to halt…
Via South China Morning Post
By: Reuters in Yangon
All land in Myanmar is owned by the state, but individuals and communities have land use rights and can lease the territory they have traditionally farmed to other parties or foreign investors.
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By Caitlin J Pierce
Date: December 22nd 2015
U Myint Tun was alone in his field in Sagaing Region when four officers pulled up in a military jeep with the bad news: His land now belonged to the government and he could no longer farm it. This was April 1996.
Nearly two decades later, he has…
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) launched a new platform (https://cambodia.opendevelopmentmekong.net) that significantly expands the range and functionality of the development-related data it makes
available to the public.
Now a member of the Open Development Mekong Network, ODC’s popular content…
By: Agence France-Presse
Date: January 26th 2016
Source: South China Morning Post
Hundreds of Myanmar families were left destitute on Tuesday after government workers used mechanical diggers to flatten swathes of Yangon slum housing as the bitter competition for land intensifies in the fast-…
By: Daniel Aguirre
Date: February 19th 2016
Source: Frontier Myanmar
The new National Land Use Policy is a positive step, but its principles need to be enshrined in law to protect the vulnerable from land grabs and forced evictions.
Disputes over land ownership and use are a major source of…