Global
Displaying 1525 - 1536 of 1731
![As mulheres são as principais vítimas de chantagem no acesso à terra [ Ampe Rogério/RA ]](/sites/default/files/styles/country_list/public/news-items/news/agricultura-27-620x413_0.jpg?itok=QGJ271X_)
Date: March 13th 2016
Source: DNA India
Can land rights for women drive down child marriage and domestic violence?
"Yes and more", says an international group of land and property rights specialists who are due in Washington this week to discuss how improved land management can reduce global…
By: Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
After years of struggle, the nations of the world finally adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of indigenous peoples in 2007, recognising the moral…
By: Joan Clos
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: Citiscope
It’s time to emphasize implementation, the head of the Habitat III conference says.
On the sidelines of last week’s Habitat III thematic meeting on financing the New Urban Agenda, Habitat III Secretary-General Joan Clos sat down with…
By: Philippa de Boissière and Sian Cowman
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
These mega-projects expropriate land, spoil environments, and pollute democracies. Berta Cáceres gave her life resisting them.
Early in the morning of March 3, Berta Cáceres was assassinated as she…
By: Paola Totaro
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
WASHINGTON, March 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Uganda's constitution of 1995 is known worldwide for pioneering and gender-sensitive provisions to protect women and their rights.
However the reality on the ground,…
By: Devex Editor
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: Devex.com
This week in Washington, D.C., the World Bank is hosting its Annual Conference on Land and Poverty, a professional meeting that has swelled considerably in the past five years. Attendee numbers have expanded to a downright packed 1,200…
By: Paola Totaro
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One in five people worldwide report having paid a bribe for land, with rates even higher in sub-Saharan Africa where women say they are forced to trade sex for property rights,…
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: March 17th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO, March 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women account for nearly half of the developing world's farmers, yet they own far less land than men despite growing evidence that increasing female land ownership can…
Date: 16 mars 2016
Source: Médiaterre
Plus de 60 experts d'organisations, d’institutions, de gouvernements, et du secteur privé, chargés de l'application de l’Objectif 15 de développement durable (ODD) et de sa cible 15.3, lequel vise à stopper et inverser les tendances de dégradation des terres,…
•17.03.2016 • 10h59
Fonte: REDE ANGOLA.
Foto: As mulheres são as principais vítimas de chantagem no acesso à terra
[ Ampe Rogério/RA ]
Um em cada três africanos abaixo do Sara tem de pagar para ter acesso à terra
A extorsão sexual das mulheres em troca de direitos de propriedade é comum, segundo a…
By: Valentina Ieri
Date: March 22nd 2016
Source: Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 21 2016 (IPS) - “We, indigenous women want to be considered as part of the solution for sustainable development, because we have capabilities and knowledge, ” said Tarcila Rivera, a Quechua journalist and…
By: Richard Connif
Date: March 21st 2016
Source: Yale Environment 360
If the world is to have another Green Revolution to feed its soaring population, it must be far more sustainable than the first one. That means finding ways to boost yields with less fertilizer and rethinking the way food is…