Date: September 7th 2016
Source: Counter View
A new study by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), “World Cities Report 2016: Urbanization and Development – Emerging Futures” has regretted extremely low levels of “aggregate municipal expenditures in India”, which happen to
The oil company that exploited the their lands “has been an uninvited and messy guest for the past four decades,” declared indigenous communities.
Peruvian Indigenous communities from the northern region of Loreto filed a lawsuit Thursday to order the regional government to comply with the
Date: October 3rd 2016
Source: Habitat for Humanity International Press Release
In recognition of World Habitat Day, Habitat for Humanity sets plans for implementing the New Urban Agenda
The Huffington Post
The Land Battle: 15 Organizations Defending Land Rights
Posted: 07/29/2015 4:22 pm EDT Updated: 07/29/2015 4:59 pm EDT
14 October 2016 – A major global conference, aiming to set a ‘New Urban Agenda,’ which, in the words of the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, will “help us to rethink how we plan, manage and live in cities,” begins this weekend, in the Ecuadorian capital, Quito.
MOMBASA: More than 20,000 public primary schools are yet to secure title deeds, the National Lands Commission (NLC) has announced.
Speaking in Mombasa during the annual primary head teachers’ conference Monday, NLC Chairman Muhammad Swazuri said only 4,000 out of the 30,000 public schools have
By: Gregory Scruggs
Date: 15 December 2016
Source: Citiscope
Policymakers will be pushed to recognize the importance of tenure reforms in cities, analysts say. Such processes also can do much to stem rural migration to cities.
By: Paola Totaro
Date: 14 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
The rejuvenation of large, decaying areas in the fast-growing cities of the developing world cannot be achieved by governments alone and private sector participation is paramount, the World Bank said in a report on
By: Rina Chandran
Date: 9 January 2017
Source: Reuters
A commercial painter by trade, K. Raja dreamed of setting up his own business in Surya Nagar slum, in the southern Indian city of Chennai, where he had lived all his life.
But his dream faded last February, when he and about 1,000 other
If you wander up and down one of the many irrigation canals in Egypt’s Nile Delta, you’ll see a wide range of crops being grown. Fields of swelling water melons sit alongside leafy greens. Twirling grape vines back on to rows of cucumbers. But why have the farmers chosen to grow one crop rather
By: Siva G|
Date: August 11th 2016
Source: Times of India
VISAKHAPATNAM: Police bosses are busy chalking out various plans and proposals to address the litigation cases pertaining to land and land grabbing at Madhurawada and other areas. According to sources, the police department's previous
This research aims to critically evaluate the current draft of a new land code in Chad. In January 2014, the government of Chad presented Tearfund and four of Tearfund’s partners with a draft of the proposed new land code and requested constructive feedback. Research was undertaken in response to