By: UCAN, Daily Star
Date: February 17th 2016
Source: Vaticana Radio
By: Shondiin Silversmith
Date: August 3rd 2016
Source: PRI.org
For the first time in history, Taiwan’s government has apologized to the indigenous people of the island for generations of abuse.
The country’s President Tsai Ing-wen gave an official apology this week outside her office building
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 15th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Campaigners and human rights lawyers said the move reflects increasing global recognition of the severity of environmental crime
By: Shinovene Immanuel
Date: November 14th 2016
Source: The Namibian
FOREIGN nationals will no longer be allowed to own agricultural, commercial and communal land if a proposed law tabled last week by lands minister Utoni Nujoma is passed in parliament.
Details on how government plans to ban
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: March 1st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous people formally own just one-tenth of the world's land, according to research released on Wednesday as part of a campaign that aims to expand legal rights to land globally
By: Girmachew Gashaw
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Ethiopian Herald
OPINION
Farmers summit towards solving landlessness
By: Rina Chandran
Date: September 26th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
VEMULAGHAT, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The peacefulness of the lush green fields of paddy and maize lining the road to Vemulaghat village in Telangana, India belies the anger of villagers protesting against
Date: 16 December 2016
Source: Haiti Libre
By: Sek Odom
Date: March 19th 2016
Source: Cambodia Daily
The Ministry of Justice on Friday announced two key changes to court policy related to land dispute cases as part of the government’s broader efforts to improve its handling of such disputes in the lead-up to the 2018 national election.
By: Clelia Daniel
Date: August 10th 2016
Source: CSR Asia
By: Maureen Odunga
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily
Title deeds for plots number 213 and 217 at Kinyerezi- Sokoni in Dar es Salaam's Ilala District have been revoked.
Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development Minister William Lukuvi has revoked the titles
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