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6 August 2020
Indonesia
JAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indonesia has cut back its planned transfer of state forests to local communities this year by half - an area twice the size of Los Angeles - because of the coronavirus outbreak, according to the Ministry of Environment and Forestry.
5 August 2020
Global
CALL FOR INDIVIDUALS AND/OR ORGANISATIONS INTERESTED IN COORDINATING ILC’S GLOBAL WORK ON RANGELANDS AND MOBILITY
DEADLINE 15 AUGUST 2020
TERMS OF REFERENCE
We are launching this call to mainstream ILC’s commitment in support of pastoralists, mobility and security of rangelands for land conflict prevention and ecosystem restoration
4 August 2020
South-Eastern Asia
Cambodia
Thailand
The first class action lawsuit against a Thai firm for its actions in Cambodia is a test case for transboundary disputes
29 July 2020
Cambodia
Main photo credit: Unsplash
Is the COVID-motivated shift enough to support all the laid-off garment industry workers? Who will really benefit?
29 July 2020
Africa
Honduras
Brazil
Colombia
Philippines
Romania
Global
Global Witness campaigners warn of risk of further killings during Covid-19 lockdowns
28 July 2020
Democratic Republic of the Congo
South Africa
Brazil
Malaysia
Sri Lanka
Iraq
Global
The second round of LAND-at-scale resulted in 24 ideas submitted by 19 Dutch embassies. The LAND-at-scale Committee selected 6 most promising ideas to develop further.
26 July 2020
Cambodia
23 July 2020
Indonesia
An Indonesian man is seeking someone to buy his plot of land and marry his sister-in-law, in what has become another viral real estate ad in the country to be bundled with a marriage deal.
In the ad, which was posted on Facebook on Tuesday, the land owner, Aris Sofiyanto, wrote the following:
21 July 2020
Africa
Eastern Africa
Tanzania
Asia
Central Asia
Mongolia
Global
‘WOLTS Team Perspectives’ is a new series of blogs launched in February 2020 by the global WOLTS team. In this series, field team members share their views about the impacts of the project’s action-research on gender, land and mining among pastoralist communities in Tanzania and Mongolia.
21 July 2020
Cambodia
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction has set 2021 as the deadline to complete land registration nationwide, including indigenous land registration, with 74% of total land parcels already registered.
20 July 2020
Honduras
Brazil
Ecuador
Bangladesh
Global
From forced displacement to conflict over resources, the coronavirus pandemic has created a “perfect storm” for land rights abuses - and the situation is likely to worsen, researchers and activists warned on Thursday.
16 July 2020
Laos
Main photo: land to be taken for the Vientiane Expressway in Laos is shown in a 2020 photo (RFA)