Date: September 29th 2016
Source: TeleSUR English
The Landless Movement accused the Federal District government of rolling out criminalization against the movement while ruling by decree.
Date: January 2nd 2017
Source: Food Tank
Date: February 6th 2016
Source: ShanghaiDaily.com
BEIJING, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- China's cabinet on Saturday urged local governments to register migrant workers as urbanites and encourage farmers to buy homes in cities.
By: Danish Khan
Date: February 22nd 2016
Source: The International News
Due to the colonial history of Pakistan, land distribution is highly skewed in favor of political and social elites. According to estimates, four percent of the wealthiest rural landowners own more than fifty percent of all
By: Bernama
Date: April 8th 2016
Source: Borneo Post Online
PUTRAJAYA: A working committee has been set up to ensure the 50 recommendations by the Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) after an inquiry process into the land rights of indigenous peoples of Malaysia are carried out within the
Date: August 29th 2016
Source: UN Press Release
29 August 2016 – Speaking ahead of a major peace conference in Myanmar, a United Nations independent expert has urged its participants to prioritise human rights issues in their discussions over the coming days, and to do more to ensure the process
By: Vicki Gass
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: Oxfam America
Women are banding together in Honduras and around the world to demand #LandRightsNow.
By: Fabiana Frayssinet
Date: October 13th 2016
Source: IPS News
EL PATO, Argentina, Oct 13 2016 (IPS) - Her seven children have grown up, but she now takes care of a young grandson while working in her organic vegetable garden in El Pato, south of the city of Buenos Aires. Olga Campos wants for
By: Kizito Makoye Shigela
Date: 12 January 2017
Source: IDN - InDepthNews
Kiyowela village in Tanzania’s southern highlands, every widow has a story to tell about how community volunteers have helped them solve property disputes with their relatives.
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: TeleSUR
The trade agreement signed earlier in February will have a devastating effect on Indigenous people, the last guardians of our natural world.
By: Paola Totaro
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One in five people worldwide report having paid a bribe for land, with rates even higher in sub-Saharan Africa where women say they are forced to trade sex for property rights,
By: Toby Stirling Hill
Date: May 3rd 2016
Source: The Guardian
As soya companies appropriate land in Paraguay, many small-scale campesino farmers are forced out to cities. For those who stay to fight for their land, the conflict can turn bloody