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Single women under the banner of National Forum for Single Women’s Rights on Tuesday demanded that the government ensure their constitutional rights over land and livelihood.
Women leaders pointed out that in some states, they do not have legal right over land, while in others they do have such…
The Indira Gandhi award for national integration has been awarded to Gandhian Rajagopal P V., founder and President of Ekta Parishad, a federation of 11,000 community based organizations and thousands of individual membersworking for the land and livelihood rights of India’s most marginalized…
By: Press Trust of India | New Delhi
Date: November 20, 2015
Representatives of various peasant unions, farmers' organisations and people's movements, under the banner of Bhumi Adhikar Andolan, today decided on a comprehensive agenda to achieve land rights and fight forced land acquisition,…
Recent experience across the developing world leaves no doubt that secure land rights for women is a fundamental requirement for ensuring that land management is sustainable and equitable. Plenty of evidence shows that, with secure rights, women are more likely to plant trees and take other actions…
The Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights and our partner Resource Equity are pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for our Women’s Land Rights Visiting Professionals Program.
Through this program we seek to cultivate a network of qualified professionals from the…
By: Express News Service
Date: January 10th 2016
Source: New Indian Express
BENGALURU: The state government on Saturday was urged to set up special courts, envisaged in the Karnataka Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, and bring the offenders to book without any further delay.
Freedom fighter H S…
By: Neena Sharma
Date: January 15th 2016
Source: Tribune News Service / Tribune India
Dehradun, January 14
For the last 50 years, Uttarakhand farmers engaged in horticulture activities in the Chamba fruit and vegetable belt in Tehri have been successfully exploiting the salubrious climate of…
Date: February 1st 2016
Source: The Hans India
Karimnagar: The Tribal people of Telangana agency areas are facing legal problems and police harassment for cultivating the forest lands as they are still not given rights over the lands that rightfully belong to them.
The successive governments’…
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With limited land, access to it has been a prevailing issue which leads to human rights violations to farmers, and to the disadvantaged women and indigenous peoples.
These Land Watch Asia (LWA)’s Lok Niti journals compile scoping studies from seven…
By: Shabir Ahmad
Date: February 5th 2016
Source: Kashmir Reader
ANANTNAG: A day after the Vigilance Organisation of Kashmir (VOK) booked congress leader and former PHE minister, Taj Mohiudin for grabbing the forest land in Shopian district, environmental activists demanded action against all the…
By: Elizabeth Roche
Date: February 8th 2016
Source: Live Mint
Housing and Land Rights Network said that certain policies aim to redress the housing and land crisis in India, others promote inequality and insecurity
New Delhi: Ahead of an international UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable…
By: Kapaeeng Foundation
Date: February 8th 2016
Source: Asian Indigenous Peoples Pact
With the intent to construct a 123-kilometer road in Rangamati of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), the Government has started a survey in Rangamati without proper consultation with the Chittagong Hill Tracts…