By PETER NGILA and JOHN MUCHANGI
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: The Star
Are the land bills being discussed in Parliament going to stop forced resettlement, grabbing and other land-related injustices?
By PETER NGILA and JOHN MUCHANGI
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: The Star
Are the land bills being discussed in Parliament going to stop forced resettlement, grabbing and other land-related injustices?
By: Philippa de Boissière and Sian Cowman
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
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, even two decades later, is an entirely different story, according to a report presented on Tuesday at a World Bank Conference on Land Rights and Poverty.
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 people from governments, development agencies, academia, nongovernmental organizations and technology firms.
By: Lauren Crothers
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: News Fulton County
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.
By: Trushna Udgirkar
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: Live Mint
Hyderabad: Chennai lost more than one-fifth of its greenery in 20 years as the city urbanized rapidly, a study found.
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:
How much should investments in new land administration systems cost? How can we disentangle and compare costs of land administration investments across countries?
Date: 15 mars 2016
Source: Zinfos974.com
Près de 20.000 signatures ont déjà été récoltées par le"Collectif sur la fiscalité et le foncier à Mayotte". Ce collectif créé fin 2015 dénonce "une hausse exorbitante des taxes d’habitation", instaurée depuis la départementalisation le 31 mars 2011.