LAGOS, Nigeria, Jun 10 2019 (IPS) - As a wife and mother in Nigeria who wanted to support my family and my community, I began my own farm in 2006. When I began, I never could have dreamed that just cultivating the earth would someday lead to my meeting government leaders, and traveling to meet

MOST people have heard of the historic 1992 High Court Mabo Decision and the Native Title Act 1993. However, many people may not be aware of the NSW State Government Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (ARLA) and its impact. Sometimes too, there is confusion between the two acts, but they are two

“Winning the fight against Corruption in the Land Sector: Sustainable Pathway for Africa’s Transformation” MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 TO FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2019 Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire Call for Abstracts Click here

Areas allocated to rubber, oil palm and logging concessions cover around a quarter of Liberia’s total land mass. Liberian activists and the international community have warned that land disputes on oil palm concessions were becoming a time bomb for conflict in the country, and urging lawmakers to

DARWIN, AUSTRALIA - Australia’s High Court on Wednesday ruled that Aboriginal owners stripped of land rights should be compensated for “spiritual harm,” in a landmark ruling that could spark a slew of cases countrywide. The court ruled that the Ngaliwurru and Nungali peoples in the Northern

Ethiopia never seems to catch a break when it comes to land and land related problems throughout its political and economic history. Land has been the maker and breaker of Ethiopian politics beginning from the time of Emperor Haileselassie I to the toppling of the Derg, from the protests across the

Liberia is in the throes of finalising one of Africa’s most progressive land rights laws but its potential will be thwarted if women are excluded   In the 42-year history of International Women’s Day, there have been huge advances in women’s rights across the world. But despite these strides,

KASSERINE/TUNISIA: Souad Gharsalli lives in a rented flat in the center of Kasserine, in western Tunisia, baking and selling artisanal bread to make money. But she should be growing olive trees for a living, she says. Gharsalli, 47, grew up with three brothers and six sisters on her family’s 7

The Supreme Court has directed 17 states to evict the Scheduled Tribe members and traditional forest-dwellers, whose claims to Forest Rights Act had been rejected, before July 27.

Cape Town – A legal battle for ownership of rights to land leased to a major petrol station has ended up in the Constitutional Court. Shell South Africa had in 1991 built a petrol station in Nelspruit (now Mbombela) in Mpumalanga, on land it leased from HL Hall & Sons and, according to court

CANBERRA — A report from the U.N Environment Programme released last month seeks to make governments look beyond environmental law, and focus on gaps in implementation. The report analyzes the global environmental rule of law and provides an important evidence base to help advocacy efforts on

A court in Ecuador’s Sucumbíos province has ordered that the mining concessions already in operation on territory claimed by the Cofán indigenous people, and those currently in the process of being granted, must be canceled, affecting some 324 square kilometers (125 square miles) in total. The