By: Maria Luisa Mendonça
Date: June 19th 2016
Source: TeleSUR English
Land speculation stimulates the expansion of plantations across Brazil, increasing land conflicts and displacement of campesino and Indigenous communities.
By:Mu Sochua
Date:20 September 2016
Source: Borderless
Monday’ sentencing of four women land rights activists by a Phnom Penh Court does not bode well for the Cambodian government, which is already being closely eyed by the international community for its ongoing politically motivated crackdowns
Date: November 14th 2016
Source: Channels TV
The Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, has signed into law, a bill prohibiting forceful takeover of land, by persons or group of individuals.
The passage of the bill has formally criminalised the act, which also attracts a 25-year jail term without
Businesses need to start seeing communities as legitimate counterparts if we are to stand a chance of slowing down conflicts over land
Globally, over 70% of land lacks clear registration or is subject to ownership disputes. This phenomenon directly increases the vulnerability of the world’s
By: Evelyn Lirri
Date: February 9th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
KAMPALA, Feb 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As candidates canvass for votes in Uganda's Feb. 18 presidential election, contenders are promising sweeping reforms to resolve land conflicts, one of the country's hottest
By: INU Staff
Date: March 11th 2016
Source: Iran News Update
INU - The head of Iran's land affairs organization acknowledged in an interview with state television on Thursday that 800 government officials are implicated in cases of ‘land-grabbing’ in the country.
By: Severianus Endi
Date: August 2nd 2016
Source: The Jakarta Post
Hundreds of residents from several hamlets in West Kalimantan have fled their homes to avoid arrest over their alleged involvement in a conflict with an oil palm company operating plantations in the area.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - International land deals, often for giant agriculture projects, now cover an area the size of Germany and a growing share are getting up and running, fuelling fears that
RANGOON – Around 100 Sittwe residents called for the resignation of the Arakan State parliament speaker in a Tuesday protest over unresolved cases of land confiscation, rally participants told The Irrawaddy.
The land grabs in question date as far back as the early 1990s, when Burma was governed