4 May 2021
Last week’s violence was some of the worst the border has seen, with more than 40 killed.
Credit photo: Wikimedia Commons
29 April 2021
Local people evicted and livelihoods at risk in Barguna district, as civil society group warns plant will damage important hilsa fish populations.
Main photo: Construction of the Barisal coal power plant continues. Image: Md Sajjad Hossain TuhinA Chinese-backed coal power plant is being built in
21 April 2021
Fear of China fueled the activism, though frustrations had accumulated over stagnant living conditions in the provinces.
Main photo: Hands off (David Trilling)
Kazakhstan is on the cusp of imposing a permanent ban on the sale and lease of agricultural land to foreigners. It is a rare victory for
17 April 2021
Systematic effort to change Tamil areas’ demographics, alleges Batticaloa MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam.
Over the last few months, farmers of Mavadi Odai in Sri Lanka’s eastern Batticaloa district frequently spotted something crop up on their land overnight — a border stone they had not planted.
26 March 2021
Kyrgyzstan has received swathes of land while granting Uzbeks control over irrigation resources.
(Photo: Kamchybek Tashiyev in Tashkent. Credit: Kyrgyz government)
Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have agreed on a treaty that should, its signatories hope, spell an end to the recurrent territorial
25 March 2021
The Sri Lankan army and forestry department has continued its ban on Tamil villagers of North Nedungeeni Vedivaithakal in Vavuniya from entering the village.
Although residents in the area have proof of their lands, the army has set up camp in the village and continues to prevent people from
25 February 2021
The border barrier will decrease the number of cross-border attacks, but more needs to be done to secure the region.
(main photo: A view of the border fence outside the Kitton outpost on the border with Afghanistan in North Waziristan, Pakistan October 18, 2017 [Caren Firouz/Reuters])
4 January 2021
A report by Global Witness has found that more than 100 Indonesian palm oil mills supplying agribusiness giants ADM and Bunge have been accused of land and human rights violations and environmental destruction.
Global Witness found that neither company is addressing the majority of these
2 January 2021
Main photo: Koh Kong province, Cambodia. Prum Khoem, 45, says he used to have 10 hectares of land before it was taken. Photograph: Enric Català/The Guardian
Tate & Lyle has been accused of betraying 200 families in Cambodia who have fought for years to secure compensation for land they say was
29 December 2020
The people of the village of Aasikulam, Vavuniya stressed the hardships caused by the Sri Lankan Forest Department seizing their land earlier this month, with around 50 families stating they had been affected.
One of the villagers said, “We depend on the agriculture to maintain our livelihoods
26 December 2020
Conflict prevention, is more cost-effective and warrants more investment and scaling-up” Mustapha Ceesay, Assistant FAO Representative
23 December 2020
Main photo: Sok Oudom, pictured at a construction site, is the owner of Rithysen radio station and a local citizen journalist in Kampong Chhnang province, Cambodia. (Courtesy of Facebook)
A Kampong Chhnang radio station owner was convicted for incitement on Tuesday and sentenced to 20 months in