It happened on the 29th of January 2020 in Bitola in North Macedonia. More than 200 landowners from Egri village gathered in Bitola’s theatre, taking turns to vote on the Land Consolidation Plan. The serious faces of men and women, old and young, were a sign that they may have been as nervous as we…
The 21st century is seeing the impacts of modernisation of the previous century. The most apparent impact is climate change.
Land is intertwined with the human trajectory and powers of access to land come from social, political or other kinds of dominance, writes Nikita Sud in this commentary.
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Reports suggest the COVID-19 fallout is providing opportunities for elites to seize lands and rewrite regulations. We need effective responses to secure land rights and lay the foundations for a just recovery.
Throughout history, crises have enabled those with more information, resources…
No es de extrañar que algunas de las lenguas a punto de extinguirse coincidan con zonas de devastación biológica”, subraya el catedrático de la Universidad de Cornell Cristopher Dunn, para explicar lo ligados que están los saberes tradicionales indígenas con la salvaguarda del territorio. ¿…
Source: Libération
Date: 13/05/2020
La crise sanitaire démontre la nécessité d’une reconnaissance juridique du droit à l’eau potable et à l’hygiène pour tous sur le territoire, tant métropolitain qu’ultra-marin, estime un collectif d'associations.
Tribune. Le geste est simple et la consigne maintes…
Autoría: Pedro Escriche y Jorge Cavero, presidente y director de CERAI
La crisis del coronavirus está generando un impacto enorme y creciente en las economías y sociedades de todos los países, además de la enorme pérdida de vidas que está conllevando.
Las imágenes de ciudades vacías con…
By Rohan Bennett, Eva-Maria Unger, Christiaan Lemmen, Kees de Zeeuw
By now, most readers are likely to have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic – perhaps directly through their own health or the health of those they know, or more indirectly through loss of work or income… and almost certainly…
It’s time we break down the barriers to women’s access to land and protect women’s rights while the pandemic places them in a precarious situation
Not only is the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) having serious health impacts around the world, it also has the potential to significantly affect the…
The fallout from COVID-19 has triggered narratives about profound changes to economic ordering. A closer look provides a more complex picture, particularly for countries in the global South.
As the world begins to reckon with the scale of COVID-19’s economic impacts, there is a growing sense…
Whether from the emergence of infectious diseases, the growing risks to global food systems, or from the increasing variability in global climate and local weather patterns, it is evident that we urgently need to rebalance our relationship with nature. Our relationship with forests is a prime…
By Catherine Benson Wahlén, Thematic Expert for Human Development, Human Settlements and Sustainable Development (US)
The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has released its annual SDG progress report, finding that the region’s performance is “poor” on most…
This is a special Earth Day Op-Ed by Michel Forst, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and Michael Taylor, the Director of the International Land Coalition Secretariat.
The world has come together in the fight against a common enemy in COVID-19; a force so strong…