Drones have become a revolutionary tool in the defense of property rights of disenfranchised people When most people imagine what a drone expert looks like, more than likely they see a scene from TV or a film of a drone strike: a man in front of a screen controlling a joystick and then, an

By: Kamanthi Wickramasinghe Date: November 2nd 2016 Source: Daily Mirror The law relating to land rights and land contracts in Sri Lanka have been embedded in a complex web of statutes that existed since the year 1863. This was during the colonial rule, a period in which the  patriarchal system

By: Herbert Moyo Date: January 29th 2016 Source: Zimbabwe Independent PLANS by government to shift focus of the proposed US$35 million land audit to assessing levels of utilisation instead of naming and shaming multiple farm owners have evoked a sense of déjà vu as government sacrifices national

By: Hazel Ndebele Date: March 4th 2016 Source: Zimbabwe Independent GOVERNMENT’S trampling on property rights and Zimbabwe’s viability as a suitable investment destination has been brought sharply into focus by last week’s abrupt shutting down of diamond mining operations of nine companies in

By: Ogechi Ekeanyanwu Date: May 7th 2016 Source: Development Cable A lot of widows in 35 countries, including Nigeria, do not have equal land inheritance rights. In March, the gender equality bill, a bill to ensure gender parity, equal economic opportunities, and equality in marriage especially in

By: Kinshu Dang Date: August 5th 2016 Source: NDTV Every Life Counts

By: Roy Prosterman (Landesa) Date: September 20th 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation Could the newly democratic nation become Asia's sixth development success story? Since World War II, there have been five great Asian development success stories founded upon land tenure reforms that

By: Hu Jiye  Date: October 23rd 2016 Source: Global Times

Date: December 16th 2015 By Rogers Mugabo  The women and men in Uganda do not own land on equal basis and there is no consensus as to whether women ought to own, access and control land or not.  This is because, effective statutory laws protecting land, inheritance and property rights of

Date: December 22nd 2016 Source: AllAfrica.com / African Development Bank Group The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Women in Parliaments Global Forum (WIP) hosting the first meeting of the WIP Council on Economic Empowerment in Kenya