Australia Indigenous Policy Report Shows Poor Progress in Improving Aboriginal Situation
By: Staff Writer
Date: February 12th 2016
Source: Lawyer Herald
By: Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
Date: February 12th 2016
Source: The Cambodia Daily
A Thai environmental auditing firm has confirmed that it is assessing the fallout from a trio of plantations in Oddar Meanchey province that Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol abandoned in late 2014 amid mounting accusations of land grabbing.
By: Theresia Tjihenuna
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Namibian
Government says it is not responsible for a stand-off involving two resettlement beneficiaries and a previous farm owner who is refusing to vacate land that has been sold to the state.
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: T. Ramakrishnan
Date: February 9th 2016
Source: The Hindu
Date: February 7th 2016
Source: Rainforest Rescue
The Tenure Analyst is responsible for conducting and managing original, high-quality research on forest and land tenure, women’s land rights, climate, and conservation in the world’s developing and forested countries, maintaining and advancing RRI’s global tenure methodologies and databases, coordinating collaborative work on RRI priority themes, and contributing to other aspects of the Strategic Analysis and Global Engagement Program (SAGE) and the RRI Coalition.
By: Niem Chheng
Date: February 8th 2016
Source: Phnom Penh Post
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction issued a statement on Saturday defending its track record and denying that Germany ended its support for the ministry’s land rights program due to a lack of transparency and sluggish reform pace.
By: Umaru Fofana
Date: February 5th 2016
Source: Reuters Africa
BO, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - A Sierra Leone court has convicted six people opposed to a palm oil project in which French conglomerate Bollore owns a major stake of destroying trees and inciting the local population to protest over land rights.
By: Shabir Ahmad
Date: February 5th 2016
Source: Kashmir Reader
ANANTNAG: A day after the Vigilance Organisation of Kashmir (VOK) booked congress leader and former PHE minister, Taj Mohiudin for grabbing the forest land in Shopian district, environmental activists demanded action against all the bigwigs who having encroached upon the prized forest land at Pahalgam.