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Displaying 2091 - 2100 of 2403Women forced to trade sex for land rights, global research finds
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, according to research by a top global anti-corruption watchdog.
Indonesia: Land disputes: Lessons from West Papua
By: Richard Welford
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: CSR Asia
A new report compiled by the Brisbane Catholic Justice and Peace Commission’s Shadow Human Rights Fact Finding Mission to West Papua, has documented human rights abuses and the complicity of businesses in West Papua.
The report documents religious, social and economic discrimination, including how the use of land for major developments has benefited multinationals has excluded Papuans from ownership and jobs. The government is accused of carving up land and giving it to some 50 multinational companies.
NOWHERE TO GO: Displaced and returnee women seeking housing, land and property rights in South Sudan
Land is of tremendous importance in South Sudan. It represents community, belonging and place as well as provides a source of income, subsistence and survival. Control of land and resources was at the centre of the conflict that lasted five decades, leading to South Sudan’s independence in 2011.
NO PLACE LIKE HOME: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE HOUSING, LAND AND PROPERTY RIGHTS OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEE WOMEN IN CAMPS AND GATHERINGS IN LEBANON
Palestinian women living in refugee camps and gatherings in Lebanon have little opportunity to realise their HLP rights. They face the double discrimination, challenged by both formal Lebanese law and familial Palestinian social systems.
In 2001, the Lebanese Government passed a law forbidding people who do not hold citizenship to a recognised state from getting property rights in the country. This has left many Palestinian refugees either losing property that they owned, or unable to inherit property from family members.
ECUADOR: HOUSING, LAND AND PROPERTY RIGHTS FOR COLOMBIAN REFUGEE WOMEN AND PERSONS IN NEED OF INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION (PNIP)
The armed conflict in Colombia causes continued forced displacement into neighboring countries. Ecuador is the country receiving the highest number of Colombian refugees. By the end of 2013, 135 5881 people were registered inEcuador by UNHCR, with an average of 1000 new claims each month. In Panama, UNHCR estimates that 18 2972 people are living in a refugee like situations mostly in urban areas or marginalized suburbs.
Consequences of evicting widows
The crisis that engulfed the Central African Republic (CAR) in the end of 2012 resulted in the perpetration of gross human rights violations, including the widespread looting and destruction of homes. As people fled the violence they left behind land which others occupied illegally. More than a year after the height of the crisis, approximately 440,000 Central Africans continue to be internally displaced. Almost half a million are refugees in neighbouring countries.
Reframing Investments in Land Information Systems for Land Administration
How much should investments in new land administration systems cost? How can we disentangle and compare costs of land administration investments across countries? How can policy-makers know if they are getting value for money and achieving long-term sustainability from investments in land administration systems?
Global Land Alliance
The mission of Global Land Alliance is to enable the prosperity of people and places by advancing learning and practice to achieve land tenure security and the efficient, inclusive and sustainable use of land and natural resources.
We aim to accelerate quality development by resolving land issues with new paradigms of participation and accountability. We are a think-and-do tank focused on resolving land issues to address four critical development challenges:
- Food security and the challenge of sustainable food systems.
India: Chennai loses green space as urbanization goes up: study
By: Trushna Udgirkar
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: Live Mint
Chennai has lost more than one-fifth of its greenery in 20 years as the city urbanized rapidly, according to a study by IISc
Hyderabad: Chennai lost more than one-fifth of its greenery in 20 years as the city urbanized rapidly, a study found.
EU turns back on Cambodian sugar exports
By: Lauren Crothers
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: News Fulton County
Since 2013, exports of sugar to European Union plummeted by nearly 95 percent on back of litany of rights abuses
PHNOM PENH — Cambodian exports of sugar to the European Union have plummeted by nearly 95 percent since 2013, as alarm raised by news of gross human rights, labor and land rights abuses bit into the sector.