By: Teboho.Setena
Date: August 10th 2016
Source: News24
THE African Farmers Association of South Africa (Afasa) in the Free State has called for a second model to the land reform programme to complement the existing Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy (Plas) programme.
The body strongly
By: Beh Lih Yi
Date: September 30th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
JAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Slum dwellers in Indonesia have launched a landmark legal case to challenge a decades-old law which has been used to forcibly remove thousands of families, amid a wave of evictions
By: John Okot
Date: January 12th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com
Gulu — Independent presidential candidate Elton Joseph Mabirizi has pledged to set up a land tribunal that will fight cases of land grabbing when elected into office.
Speaking to residents in Cerelenu market, Gulu, at the weekend, Mr
Date: March 22nd 2016
Source: New Kerala
New York, Mar 22 :Following a visit to Brazil, a United Nations independent human rights expert on Monday expressed alarm about the extent of documented and reported attacks on indigenous peoples in the country's central-western state of Mato Grosso Do Sul
By: Filbert Rweyemamu
Date: August 14th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen
Arusha — Women from marginalized communities in Africa will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in order to raise awareness about land rights this October.
Programme manager of the Tanzania Gender Network Programme (TGNP) Grace
By: Elias Glenn and Kevin Yao
Date: November 3rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
China has relaxed rules to allow farmers to transfer their land rights to help promote more efficient, large-scale farms, amid an exodus of farm workers to the cities.
By: Deodatus Mfugale
Date: February 1st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily News
ANALYSISIn 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
By: Pratch Rujivanarom & Prapasri Ostanon
Date: March 29th 2016
Source: The Nation
ACTIVISTS have warned that the proposed Mineral Bill would severely violate human rights by allowing mining firms to drive people off their lands and give the state absolute power to manage mineral resources.
By: Bongani Mthethwa
Date: August 21st 2016
Source: Sowetan Live
One of the first pilot projects that will see workers and farm owners become co-owners of a farming enterprise as part of government’s 50/50 land policy was officially launched in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday.
The pilot project‚ which
By: Gbenga Salau
Date: November 6th 2016
Source: The Guardian Nigeria
Investing in, or acquiring property in Lagos State, over the years, has been a source of sorrow and misery for many unsuspecting people.
Date: February 5th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / New Era
The Ministry of Land Reform is pondering the possibility of increasing the benefits associated with the registration of communal land rights.
Currently, registered communal land owners are only issued with a certificate. One of the
By: Swati Ramanathan
Date: April 8th 2016
Source: Live Mint
OPINION
The passage of the Rajasthan Urban Land (Certification of Titles) Bill marks the most dramatic event in the history of property rights reforms in the country