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Africa’s women moving mountains to stand up for land rights
By: Holly Miller
Date: September 16th 2016
Source: Women's Agenda
Land Matters for Children: A Photo Essay
June 1st marks International Children’s Day, a global celebration of children and an opportunity to bring special attention to how secure land tenure positively affects children. Evidence from a number of countries suggests that when women have secure rights to land and other assets their children and their communities also benefit. For example, in countries where women have wea
Land for people, or corporations? - India
Earlier this month, a People’s Tribunal on Land Rights was held in Hyderabad, presided over by Justice (retd) Wajiuddin Ahmed, and heavily attended by peasants and activists. Continued failure of governments to restore land to the landless, and trickery in token farmland distribution, was exposed and decried.
'Without land, we have no power', Indian Dalit land rights activist says
By: Rina Chandran
Date: 22 September 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Marginalised low-caste Dalits are fighting against victimisation and demanding land that is owed to them
EU must stop supporting the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
Land Grabbing in Africa, the new colonialism
The silent recolonisation of Africa is happening on a mass scale. To address this issue, the first Africa Conference on Land Grabs is set to take place in South Africa on 27–30 Oct. 2014. Land is the source of life and death, but it might not always be with us.
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Land grab protest in Senegal, 2012
Indonesian slum dwellers challenge eviction law in landmark case
By: Beh Lih Yi
Date: September 30th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
JAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Slum dwellers in Indonesia have launched a landmark legal case to challenge a decades-old law which has been used to forcibly remove thousands of families, amid a wave of evictions in the country's capital.
Land of the ‘mystery’ cocoa - Trinidad and Tobago
Rajiv Sookeo, office manager at the Montserrat Cocoa Farmers Co-operative, left, and farmer Jerome Pino, tend to cocoa beans being sun-dried in the cocoa house on San Antonio Estate. PHOTOS: YVONNE BABOOLAL
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Guatemala’s indigenous people are at risk of losing their land
By: Esther Yu Hsi Lee
Date: October 10th 2016
Source: ThinkProgress
About 60 percent of the country’s population is comprised of indigenous people.
FAO sets wheels in motion to help launch 2015 world forum on access to land
Source: FAO
14/11/2014 - 2nd meeting of the organizing committee on access to land calls for civil society organizations and governmental institutions to mobilize and launch global debate on land tenure and investment agreements
China to allow land transfer under new rural land reforms
By: NT
Date: November 2nd 2016
Source: The Navhind Times
Beijing: China has initiated a new set of land reforms changing the 30-year-old system to permit transfer of land rights to individuals or conglomerates, a politically sensitive move as the Communist country embarked on urban expansion shedding its agrarian past.