1 July 2022
This LANDac session drew on the Land Portal Foundation’s experience working at the crossroads of land governance and open data. With the recent launch of the Land Module, a first of its kind global index on land data, it was a good moment to pause, reflect, and take lessons from the work that we
21 May 2022
(main photo) FILE - (Former) Federal Minister for Human Rights of Pakistan Shireen Mazari delivers a speech during a session of the UN Human Rights Council, which voted to hold an urgent debate about Russia's deadly invasion of Ukraine at Kyiv's request, Geneva, Feb. 28, 2022.
11 May 2022
April and May 2022 will be remembered as the most important months in the post-independence era. During this short period the much hoped for people’s awakening expressed itself powerfully. People who wielded authority failed to see the writing on the wall although the wall was just next to the
5 May 2022
A total of 17.6 million hectares (43.5 million acres) of Indigenous territories in Indonesia, an area half the size of Germany, have been demarcated under an independent initiative that began in 2010.
The mapping is seen as the first step for Indigenous communities in the long and complicated
3 March 2022
Local residents of Gaur, Rautahat, have lamented the failure of police administration to arrest people involved in a plot to capture the land of Gaur Rice Mills, including a government employee who confessed he forged official documents.
Set up in 1946, the mill was closed after 22 years due to
24 February 2022
The new law is a tool for Beijing to further expand its sovereignty into its neighbors’ domains.
A new Land Border Law, which China adopted amid heightened tensions with its neighbors, has raised concerns over its implications for border disputes.
8 February 2022
Photo: South Sudan's Deputy Minister for Foreign and International Cooperation Deng Dau Deng Malek met Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque in Dhaka on Tuesday. Photo: Collected
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African country South Sudan wants to lease its vast fallow land to Bangladesh for producing crops.
25 January 2022
The Netherlands Enterprise and Development Agency (RVO) and the Somalia department of the Netherlands Embassy (EKN) in Kenya are pleased to announce their collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), UN-Habitat and the Regional
24 January 2022
The Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency (RVO) is pleased to announce its collaboration with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) in Bujumbura, ZOA, VNG International and MiPAREC for the implementation of a LAND-at-scale project in Burundi “Amahoro @ Scale - An integrated
24 December 2021
Banner photo: Since most of the evicted families were Bengali-speaking Muslims, it was alleged that they are illegal immigrants who had forcibly occupied government land as well as land of indigenous people and also settled on grazing land. (PTI PHOTO.)
6 December 2021
The Netherlands Agency for Enterprise and Development (RVO) is pleased to announce its collaboration with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) in Bamako, SNV, the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), the University of Legal and Political Sciences of Bamako and the National Coordination of
6 December 2021
With the Indonesian government refusing to renew a three-year ban on issuing licenses for new oil palm plantations, experts are warning of a deforestation free-for-all.
The end of the moratorium means companies can once again apply to develop new plantations, including clearing forests to do.
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