Ministry tells urban owners that they won’t have to pay more after their land rights expire, but analysts say the issue must be clarified in a law
China’s land ministry has assured the country’s urban homeowners that they won’t have to pay extra money for their properties when their underlying
An indigenous rights issue has put Costa Rica’s much-vaunted human rights record to the test as the country struggles to protect members of the Bribrí and Teribe indigenous communities from non-indigenous people who have forcibly, and at times violently, removed them from indigenous ancestral lands
Communities in the area of Chief Malemia in Nsanje have turned down a proposal by their traditional leaders to sale their customary land to an Indian investor, Nyasa Limited.
The communities have faulted Senior Chief Malemia among other traditional leaders for secretly masterminding the selling
By: Geoffrey Mohan
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: Los Angeles Times
A proposal by the state’s farm labor watchdog to gain access to fields so it can educate workers about their rights is running into strong opposition from growers, even before it has been written into regulation.
By: Stuart Lowman
Date: March 1st 2016
Source: Biznews.com
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
Addressing land policy is critical for a world without hunger, for climate resilience and sustainable urbanization. Policy-makers’ awareness of the importance of land governance has grown over the last years.
Date: 13 September 2016
Source: Forest Peoples Programme
By: Alisa Tang
Date: November 3rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Land conflicts in Myanmar have escalated in recent years, with military and armed groups driving people from their land, and new laws failing to protect farmers, a rights watchdog said
By: Sophie Tremblay & Willy Lowry
Date: 4 January 2017
Source: Pacific Standard
Yaeda Valley in Tanzania is home to the Hadzabe, one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer tribes in the world, and they are using carbon trading to save their forests.
YAEDA VALLEY, TANZANIA — “Carbon,” says Mzee
Nearly 4,000 of more than 62,000 refugees living in camps in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu have registered to return
BANGKOK, Oct 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of Sri Lankan refugees living in India are ready to return to their homeland decades after fleeing civil war,