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26 November 2018
In partnership with innovative local land rights organisations, Namati supports communities to protect, document, and defend their customary and indigenous land rights.
For billions of rural people,the land is their greatest asset: the source of food and water, the site of their livelihoods, and…
7 May 2018
BONN, Germany (Landscape News) — The devolution of land tenure rights to forest-dwelling communities over the past quarter century has led to the development of entrepreneurial initiatives with substantial positive socio-economic outcomes for livelihoods, according to a leading scientist.
Through…
22 August 2017
(CNN) More than 700 people are believed to have been killed in massive floods and landslides that have rocked Bangladesh, India and Nepal this month, aid workers say.
It is the worst flooding that some parts of South Asia have seen in decades, with about 24 million people affected, the…
20 February 2017
By: Mithilesh Yadav
Date: 20 December 2017
Source: My Republica
Located on the east-west highway near Lahan, Lalpur village is famous for vegetable farming. When the village was merged into Golbajar municipality a few months ago, the villagers were elated, hoping to receive more services…
Recent experience across the developing world leaves no doubt that secure land rights for women is a fundamental requirement for ensuring that land management is sustainable and equitable. Plenty of evidence shows that, with secure rights, women are more likely to plant trees and take other actions…
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With limited land, access to it has been a prevailing issue which leads to human rights violations to farmers, and to the disadvantaged women and indigenous peoples.
These Land Watch Asia (LWA)’s Lok Niti journals compile scoping studies from seven…
By: Rubeena Mahato
Date: February 5th 2016
Source: Nepali Times
Gains of Nepal’s land rights movement has come not from bloodshed and war, but from a non-violent social movement.
In the larger scheme of things, the petty games that politicians play to keep themselves relevant should not matter…
By: Himalayan News Service
Date: March 3rd 2016
Source: The Himalayan Times
The campaign meant for increasing access and ownership of women farmers to land property is gaining success in Ramechhap with more and more women participating in the campaign.
As per the campaign launched by Land Rights…
By: Rastriya Samachar Samiti
Date: March 3rd 2016
Source: The Himalayan Times
BHAKTAPUR: In a bid to keep up with e-governance service recently introduced by the government, the Bhaktapur District Land Revenue Office (DLRO) has switched to online land registration service.
Officiating secretary…
By: Matthew Ponsford
Date: April 24th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A year after the deadly earthquake in Nepal, thousands of people, especially women, are being deprived of funds to rebuild because they do not own land or cannot prove they owned…
By: Shubham Ghosh
Date: April 25th 2016
Source: One India
Kathmandu, April 25: A year has lapsed since a devastating earthquake left Nepal in the ruins but still several people, particularly the women, are yet to get funds to rebuild their lost property for they do not own land and neither can…
By: Zoe Tabary
Date: Thursday, 9 June 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
As Nepali men migrate to find work, women are taking over in the fields - earning them more money and respect
PHULBARI, Nepal, June 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ratna Chaudhary delicately lifts the hem of her…