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Greening Governance Seminar Series: Reducing Land Rights Inequity between Communities and Companies

12 September 2018
James A. Harmon Conference Center
10 G Street NE, Suite 800
Washington
United States

This event focuses on the challenges Indigenous Peoples and communities face in acquiring legal rights to their land, the loopholes companies can often take, and ways countries can simplify complex procedures.

Indigenous Peoples and rural communities occupy more than half of the world’s land, but they legally own just 10 percent of land globally.

World Resources Institute

Webinar: The Land Reform Agenda for Kenya

10 October 2018
Online
United States

Land use and reforms are at the heart of Kenya’s political and economic future stability. Land is an enabler to support manufacturing, access to affordable and decent housing, universal health care, food security and nutrition.  Land is a critical driver in urban development through regulating access to land and use to achieve security of tenure for all.

Land Portal Foundation
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
European Union
Kenya Land Alliance
Government of Kenya

HEKS/EPER Land Forum 2018: Putting the Peasants Rights’ Declaration into practice

10 December 2018
Friedenskirche Bern
Friedensstrasse 9
Bern
Switzerland

There are high hopes that the process of drawing up an international human rights instrument for the promotion and protection of peasant rights will soon be crowned with success: In September, the Human Rights Council decides whether the newly negotiated UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas will be sent to the United Nations’ General Assembly in New Y

HEKS EPER

Thomson Reuters Annual Trust Conference

14 October 2018 - 15 October 2018
London
London
United Kingdom

Trust Conference is an annual human rights forum committed to finding real solutions to fight slavery, empower women, and advance human rights worldwide. The annual event convenes 600 delegates from the worlds of activism, civil society, law, government and business in the heart of London for two full days of inspiration, networking, and action.

 

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Realizing the VGGTs and SDGs: The role of data ecosystems, people-centered monitoring and impact evaluation in achieving global development goals

18 October 2018
Rome
Italy

In 2017, the fifth anniversary of the landmark Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGTs) highlighted successful integration of VGGT principles into national law and decision-making processes across several countries.

Land Portal Foundation
Global Land Tool Network
International Land Coalition
The Millennium Challenge Corporation
Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
Overseas Development Institute
Global Land Alliance

Gender Justice: Women’s rights to land

14 December 2018
Humanity House
Prinsegracht 8
The Hague
Netherlands

Many women around the world are working to improve their land rights. Yet the access to their land is often insecure. During this evening, you will hear stories by women who are involved in different initiatives at the grassroots level – from the Netherlands to Malawi. What lessons can we learn and how can they generate ideas that lead to more action on the ground? 

LANDac
Oxfam Novib
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
Kadaster International
Agriterra
ActionAid
Both ENDS

Webinar: The Year of Justice

16 January 2019
Online
United States

As 2018 came to a close, Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary named “justice” their Word of the Year. It was a top search throughout 2018, and for good reason. Justice remains out of reach for billions of people worldwide.

We have a chance to change that in 2019. That’s why we’re naming this the Year of Justice. 

Namati

Land Rights for Slum Dwellers in the East Indian State Odisha: Making technology work for the urban poor

14 February 2019
Online
India

The Land Portal Foundation and the NRMC Center for Land Governance partnered with key organizations to hold a series of three webinars leading up to the third annual India Land and Development Conference (ILDC), which took place from 12-14 March, 2019.

Government of Odisha (India)
Tata Trusts
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Azim Premji University
NRMC
Cadasta Foundation
Land Portal Foundation