By: Rubeena Mahato
Date: February 5th 2016
Source: Nepali Times
In the larger scheme of things, the petty games that politicians play to keep themselves relevant should not matter much. They have done it year after year, decade after decade — it’s the same plot and even the characters are the same.
By: Max Lewontin
Date: February 4th 2016
Source: Christian Science Monitor
By: Patrick Langat
Date: February 4th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
The National Land Commission and the Ministry of Education have directed schools to acquire title deeds.
Only 7,000 of the 32,000 schools countrywide have the documents, NLC chairman Mohammad Swazuri said.
Dr Swazuri said that about 9,000 schools applied for title deeds following President Uhuru Kenyatta's directive in January last year.
By: Zsombor Peter
Date: February 4th 2016
Source: Cambodia Daily
After more than 20 years, Germany is ending its work with the Land Management Ministry on land rights projects in frustration over the government’s slow reforms—another black eye for a sector at the center of some of the country’s most pressing human right issues.
By: Pia Ranada
Date: February 3rd 2016
Source: Rappler
MANILA, Philippines – Under the Aquino administration, farmers have endured a “total failure of land reform,” presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday, February 3.
By: David Courch
Date: February 3rd 2016
Source: The Guardian
By: Kizito Makoye
Date: February 4th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
JAMBIANI, Tanzania, Feb 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Zuhura Salim was not entirely sure her family would ever recover a piece of land that her father-in-law seized when her husband died in a fishing accident some 11 years ago.
By: Megan Rowling
Date: February 3rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Conditions are ripe for a global leap forward in recognizing the land rights of indigenous people and forest communities, but investors and the public need to pressure governments to make it happen, an international network of forest policy groups said.
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With limited land, access to it has been a prevailing issue which leads to human rights violations to farmers, and to the disadvantaged women and indigenous peoples.
By: Jon Fernquest
Date: February 1st 2016
Source: Bangkok Post
EDITORIAL
By: Deodatus Mfugale
Date: February 1st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily News
ANALYSIS
In September 2015, a group comprising eight non-governmental organisations that deal with land rights and extractives resources advocacy submitted to the Human Rights Council, Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism, a review of the United Republic of Tanzania for the period from 2012 to 2015.
