Namati - Innovations in Legal Empowermnent
Very rich site with many resources..."In a world where billions of people live outside the protection of the law, Namati is building a global movement of grassroots legal advocates who work with communities to advance justice. These advocates are solving problems on the front lines to ensure that people can protect their land, access essential services, and take part in the decisions that govern their lives...
Rights and Resources Dialogue Series on Forests, Governance, and Climate Change
High-quality speakers and panels. From 2009. Some of the meetings have recorded webcasts available online.
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Myanmar page
Highly recommended. Well-organised site. In "list of sources used" are most of the main reports from 1995 bearing on IDPs (though the reports from 1995 to 1997 are missing - temporarily, one hopes) and more Burma pages updated June 2001. Go to the home page for links on IDPs, including the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.
Publications on "Access to land"
Appetite for land" (pdf, 225 KB) Large-Scale Foreign Investment in Land
Available in German (pdf, 265 KB) and French (pdf, 270 KB)
Myanmar profile - natural resources
Myanmar's natural resources include gems, industrial minerals, oil, and offshore natural gas reserves estimated at 10 trillion cubic feet. The extractive sector accounted for 39 percent of exports in 2010, yet despite its mineral wealth, Myanmar is one of the least developed nations in the world. Its extractive industries are infamously opaque. In the April 2012 elections, the main opposition party won seats in the parliament, a development that could lead to improved transparency...
Future Agricultures
A site with a large number of links to resources, including the papers of the 2011 International Conference on Global Land Grabbing..."FAC has been exploring what needs to be done to get different forms of agriculture – food/cash crops, livestock/pastoralism, smallholdings/contract farming/large holdings – moving on a track of increasing productivity and competitiveness.
IDP material by the Border Consortium (TBC)
For IDP material (from 2002), scroll down to IDPs and choose a year....very useful and well-researched and written reports.
International Land Coalition
Our Mission:
A global alliance of civil society and intergovernmental organisations working together to promote secure and equitable access to and control over land for poor women and men through advocacy, dialogue, knowledge sharing and capacity building...
Our Vision:
Secure and equitable access to and control over land reduces poverty and contributes to identity, dignity and inclusion.
Land Issues (MYLAFF folder)
Community and Customary Land - 12 files ...
Dispute Mechanisms and Approaches - 9 files...
General - 45 files
Human Rights - 14 files...
Land and the Ceasefire Process...
Land Grabbing - 68 files...
Land Titling - 7 files...
Community Mapping: Overcoming Complexities...
Free, Prior, Informed, Consent: Policy Brief...
Free Burma Rangers
... The Free Burma Rangers is an organization dedicated to freedom for the people of Burma. "De Oppresso Liber" is the motto of the Free Burma Rangers and we are dedicated in faith to the establishment of liberty, justice, equal rights and peace for all the people of Burma. The Free Burma Rangers support the restoration of democracy, ethnic rights and the implementation of the International Declaration of Human Rights in Burma. We stand with those who desire a nation where God's gifts of life, liberty, justice, pursuit of happiness and peace are ensured for all...
MISSION:
OCHA: Protection of civilians in armed conflict
Conflict-induced displacement. Standards, mechanisms, many links to humanitarian, relief and protection agencies dealing with internally displaced people, refugees, landmines, non-state actors, international organisations etc.