This report is a summary of the 2013 CSO Land Reform Monitoring papers in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and the  Philippines. It focuses on land conflicts including killings, harassments, land-related detainments, and evictions experienced in the seven countries. It also includes interventions and principles which ANGOC and LWA call for the government and institutions to adhere to in addressing such issues.

Moon Nay Li is the General Secretary of the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT), an organisation which she joined in 2002 in order to work for her people and community. The KWAT was founded on September 9th 1999 in response to recognising the urgent need for women to organise themselves to help solve the growing social and economic problems in the Kachin State...The KWAT is very concerned that foreign aid and investment is serving to subsidise the government’s war machine.

The land administration system in Bangladesh is not well-developed. It is beset with multiple defects and problems. It is corrupt, inefficient, and unreliable and inherently contains systematic weaknesses. Corruption has become a grave issue in this sector. A World Bank survey reveals that most crimes and corruptions in Bangladesh take place in land-related services. It has estimated that more than 3.2 million land-related cases are pending before the judiciary. A large number of the aggrieved persons is not empowered enough to approach the courts for litigation.

Trafficking and Militarized Femininity on the Burma-China Border

Se trata de un aporte técnico para entender el contexto político, reivindicativo, pero principalmente legislativo del acceso a la tierra de sectores populares en el medio rural del Uruguay actual. El estudio parte de la intervención del Estado sobre el acceso a la tierra a través de las leyes e instrumentos complementarios a las mismas y la trama de sus aplicaciones concretas. Por lo tanto es un documento…

Este material incluye algunas estimaciones realizadas en relación a la demanda actual de tierras, la cantidad de familias sin tierras o con tierra insuficiente, informaciones del organismo de aplicación de la política de tierras en relación a sus beneficiarios, así como aspectos relevantes de la demanda de tierras a partir de la visión de las organizaciones campesinas, así como informaciones sobre…

 
El investigador belga François Houtart acaba de publicar el libro Agriculturas Campesinas en Latinoamérica, una edición que recoge artículos académicos escritos por cientistas sociales de Latinoamérica (seis de México, tres de Bolivia, dos de Francia, dos de Brasil y, respectivamente uno de Perú, Ecuador, Argentina, Guatemala y Cuba), que participaron en un evento internacional del mismo nombre. El documento fue presentado recientemente en La ciudad de La Paz, Bolivia,  por el Instituto Para el Desarrollo Rural de Sudamérica (IPDRS).

The 1990s saw a constant increase in international peace missions, predominantly led by the United Nations, whose mandates were more and more extended to implement societal and political transformations in post-conflict societies. However, in many cases these missions did not meet the high expectations and did not acquire a sufficient legitimacy on the local level. Written by leading experts in the field, this edited volume brings together ‘liberal’ and ‘post-liberal’ approaches to peacebuilding.

The vast majority of land in Afghanistan is untitled and unregistered, further complicating the Afghan state’s ability to help sustainably resolve land disputes. The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and the Afghanistan Land Authority sought to address this problem by testing a new model of engaging community dispute resolution in formal land registration. This report examines the lessons learned from the pilot and proposes recommendations for reform.

• La publicación ofrece una amplia reflexión sobre las nuevas presiones sobre la tierra y los territorios en cuatro países de la región, e indaga sobre sus impactos en procesos de larga data.
• Se presenta a los actores directamente afectados o beneficiados por las relaciones de poder que se generan en el ámbito rural en la actualidad.
• Se destaca que los países estudiados cuentan con marcos legales e institucionales para el gobierno de la tierra que han sido impulsados o reformados según el interés de las clases dominantes.

Caso de un barrio en las afueras de Quito que en 2005 se reconstituye como comunidad ancestral, con derechos colectivos, en medio de conflictos y amenazas por actores externos

Urban and peri-urban land markets in rapidly expanding West African cities operate within and across different coexisting tenure regimes and involve complex procedures to obtain or make land available for housing. Because a structured framework lacks for the analysis of such systems, this book proposes a systemic approach and applies it to Bamako and its surrounding areas.