The Land Portal Foundation, in partnership with Transparency International, hosted the webinar titled "Breaking New Ground: Insights and Stories on the Impact of Land Corruption on Discriminated Groups in Africa." The webinar brought together a panel of distinguished experts to delve into the challenges and complexities of corruption intertwined with discrimination in land rights and governance. This session provided crucial insights through detailed case studies and expert analyses, offering pathways towards more equitable land management practices.

The Land Portal Foundation, in partnership with Transparency International, hosted the webinar titled "Breaking New Ground: Insights and Stories on the Impact of Land Corruption on Discriminated Groups in Africa." The webinar brought together a panel of distinguished experts to delve into the challenges and complexities of corruption intertwined with discrimination in land rights and governance. This session provided crucial insights through detailed case studies and expert analyses, offering pathways towards more equitable land management practices.

En la jornada inaugural de la #COP28, organizamos un seminario web titulado "Aumentando la Resiliencia Climática mediante una Gobernanza de la Tierra Inclusiva", en el que se profundizó en el papel crucial que desempeña una gobernanza de la tierra inclusiva en el aumento de la resiliencia climática.

Publicado por: Camila Parodi 

Se cumplen 11 días del Paro Nacional indefinido en Ecuador. Una movilización indígena, campesina, feminista y popular trascendental en la historia del país andino. Dialogamos con la socióloga y analista de política internacional de Ecuador, Irene León Trujillo.

Por Camila Parodi para Agencia de Noticias Biodiversidadla

La semana pasada, la Coalición Internacional para el Acceso a la Tierra (ILC) organizó su 9º Foro Global de la Tierra en Jordania, la primera gran reunión en persona de la comunidad de la tierra en tres años.

Blog written by AYJAZ WANI for Observer Research Foundation

Originally posted at https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/kazakhstan-on-the-brink/

Main photo: Getty

Por Duncan Tucker

Encerrado en condiciones asquerosas y de hacinamiento en un sistema penitenciario notorio por sus motines mortales y decapitaciones, Bernardo Caal Xol está pagando el precio de hacerle frente a los intereses corporativos y a las autoridades que de manera habitual corrompen el sistema de justicia de Guatemala para silenciar a los defensores de los derechos humanos.

The Maasai community of Musul have lived on the same land in Laikipia county for generations. It is their source of food and water, the heart of their culture and beliefs, and their ancestral home. But until recently, their legal rights to govern it were tenuous.

In Jharkhand, eastern India, women are not entitled to own land and accusations of witchcraft are wielded against them to silence their claims to land

When Talabitti’s husband died in 2016, her claim to the family land seemed to die with him. Though her husband had worked the family land by himself, upon his death his male cousins laid their claim. If Talabitti attempted to make a competing claim, they threatened to drive her away – with violence, if necessary. Sadly, this threat materialized.

El sector empresarial obstaculiza la defensa de los derechos humanos en Perú, lo que deja a los activistas expuestos a agresiones o a ser criminalizados, según un informe divulgado este jueves por dos ONG internacionales.

"El sector empresarial en el Perú juega un rol importante en el clima de inseguridad y ataques contra las personas defensoras de derechos humanos", dice el reporte preparado por la Organización Mundial contra la Tortura (OMCT) y la Federación Internacional de Derechos Humanos (FIDH).

Article written by Radha Krishna Khadka for Online Khabar, originally posted at: https://english.onlinekhabar.com/history-of-land-rights-movement-in-nepal.html

Photo: A rally organised in Surkhet district headquarters Birendranagar demanding establishment Organised Settlement Commission on September 07, 2017

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