By: T. Ramakrishnan
Date: February 9th 2016
Source: The Hindu
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein also calls for reducing the size of the military force in the North and East to a "less intrusive" level.
By: Staff reporter
Date: March 2nd 2016
Source: The Hindu
Campaigning for land rights for the marginalised sections of society, people from various parts of Tamil Nadu participated in a demonstration organised by Unorganised Workers Federation and National Alliance for People’s Movements, on
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
By: Ryan Dagur
Date: April 7th 2016
Source: UCA News
'We have the right to cultivate our own property,' protester says
Nearly 200 indigenous people in Indonesia's predominantly Catholic East Nusa Tenggara province are staging a sit-in protest to regain calling for the return of their ancestral
The Oxfam Novib Academy is looking for a student passionate about creating social change through worldwide campaigns. Ideally, the student should have knowledge on land rights and / or mobilisation strategies. The internship will last 4-6 months for at least 3 days a week. Start Date: 5th of
The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) is a global coalition that supports the developing world’s Indigenous Peoples and local communities to secure their rights to own, control and benefit from the natural resources they have depended on for generations.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 8th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Under rental agreements, small-scale landowners retain their title deeds, but larger companies with access to capital and machinery pay for the right to use the land to grow their crops
Date: October 24th 2016
Source: Jaimaica Observer
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Opposition spokesperson on land, Senator Sophia Frazer Binns, says the contentious informal settlement at 85 Red Hills Road in St Andrew is another reason to place the issue of land tenure, ownership and rectification on the
By: FMT Reporters
Date: January 6th 2017
Source: Free Malaysia Today
Sarawak activist says it is time to vote out complacent Dayak lawmakers who have done nothing except take care of themselves and their positions in politics.
PETALING JAYA: A human rights advocate says Dayak lawmakers have
GUATEMALA CITY, Sept 12, 2011 (IPS) - The violent eviction of 91 rural families in northern Guatemala was the latest incident in the ageold conflict over land in a country where the army is frequently called in to force peasant farmers off their land.
Written by Simone Adler and Beverly Bell
Published: 10 November 2015
From an Interview with Mariama Sonko
Mariama Sonko is a farmer and organizer in Casamance, Senegal. She is the National Coordinator of We Are the Solution, a campaign for food sovereignty led by rural women in West Africa.
By: F.T. ODHIAMBO
Date: January 21st 2016
Source: Standard Digital
The validity of the title deeds issued to the beneficiaries of Waitiki land in Mombasa County recently is suspect as the procedure used is not supported by any existing land law. Maybe this is because the process was actually the