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Thai govt to distribute state land for the landless
By: Editor
Date: March 1st 2016
Source: Thai Visa News
Government to distribute state land for the landless
BANGKOK: — The government plans to allocate about 195,000 rai of state land in 47 provinces for landless poor so they will have a land plot to build a living quarter and to make a living.
Improving a test version of the Observatory
August 7, 2012
The Land Observatory is a project involving those who will contribute, verify and update information on land deals to a web-based platform, and involving those who will explore this information and analyze it. There is no use in developers blindly building a platform without fully understanding the needs and desires of both of those sets of potential users.
Is there more to India’s urbanization beyond Delhi and Mumbai?
By: Tadit Kundu
Date: March 9th 2016
Source: Live Mint
With close to 25 million people living in Mumbai and Delhi combined, India’s urbanization has clearly been lop-sided
Joint paper advocates for the inclusion of targets specifically related to women’s land and property rights in the post-2015 development agenda
EU turns back on Cambodian sugar exports
By: Lauren Crothers
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: News Fulton County
Since 2013, exports of sugar to European Union plummeted by nearly 95 percent on back of litany of rights abuses
PHNOM PENH — Cambodian exports of sugar to the European Union have plummeted by nearly 95 percent since 2013, as alarm raised by news of gross human rights, labor and land rights abuses bit into the sector.
Brazil : Maracana indigenous community delay World Cup eviction
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21001052
A Brazilian indigenous community that has been facing eviction from a building next to the Maracana football stadium has celebrated the police's decision to leave the area.
Riot police in Rio de Janeiro had encircled the area early on Saturday expecting a court order to evict them.
The building is meant to be demolished as part of preparations for next year's World Cup.
Malaysia: 15-year NCR land dispute settled
By: Ruben Sario
Date: March 23rd 2016
Source: The Star
KOTA KINABALU: A festive atmosphere prevailed outside the Kota Kinabalu court complex here after a court initiated mediation resolved a Native Customary Rights (NCR) land dispute dating back 15 years.
"The challenge is not to make data theoretically accessible, but also practically usable." An interview with Johannes Keizer
Iraq's marshes, drained by Saddam, named world heritage site
By: Stephen Kalin
Date: 18 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
A wetland in southeast Iraq, thought to be the biblical Garden of Eden and almost completely drained during Saddam Hussein's rule, has become a UNESCO world heritage site, Iraqi authorities said on Sunday.