By: Matthew Ponsford
Date: April 24th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A year after the deadly earthquake in Nepal, thousands of people, especially women, are being deprived of funds to rebuild because they do not own land or cannot prove they owned
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: August 30th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
"People are actually dying because of this issue"
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Brazil's Amazon where no-one knows who exactly owns a swathe of territory the size of Ukraine, a lack of
By: Manuela Picq
Date: September 29th 2016
Source: Intercontinental Cry Magazine
Challenging Terra Nullius in the courts of Guatemala
Copones is a large Maya Q’eqchi’ territory in Guatemala, in the northern province of Quiché along the Mexican border with Chiapas. Q’eqchi’ communities have
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
By: Naomi Larsson
Date: November 8th 2016
Source: The Guardian
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: Latin American Herald Tribune
BANGKOK – Sea gypsy communities on southern Thailand’s Phuket island have engaged in a ritual ceremony to pray for land rights after the Ministry of Justice less than two weeks ago called on the provincial Department of Land to revoke
By: Himalayan News Service
Date: March 3rd 2016
Source: The Himalayan Times
The campaign meant for increasing access and ownership of women farmers to land property is gaining success in Ramechhap with more and more women participating in the campaign.
By: Loirdham Moyo
Date: April 12th 2016
Source: VOA Zimbabwe
MUTARE, MANICALAND — Zimbabweans took up arms to fight against colonialism with the land question as a driving force for achieving black majority rule in the southern African nation.
By: Nay Aung
Date: August 16th 2016
Source: The Myanmar Times
Villagers in Magwe Region’s Sinbaungwe township are calling for the reconstitution of committees in the township tasked with resolving seized land claims, saying their current memberships do not have locals’ approval.
By: Kizito Makoye
Date: September 8th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
"The use of drones will help us to define the boundaries of plots of land on the ground with great accuracy"
By Zabihullah Noori
Date: October 11th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
In conservative Afghanistan, properties usually registered to men but there are plans to issue joint ownership rights to married couples
By: Niem Chheng
Date: February 8th 2016
Source: Phnom Penh Post
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction issued a statement on Saturday defending its track record and denying that Germany ended its support for the ministry’s land rights program due to a lack of