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‘Our land they took’: San land rights under threat in Namibia

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Reports & Research
December, 2006
Namibia
Africa

A study of the San, the poorest and most marginalised minority group in Namibia, with little access to existing political and economic institutions. They have been dispossessed of most of their ancestral lands and on lands they still occupy there are major issues of resource overuse, degradation, illegal grazing, unclear legal status and ongoing threats of dispossession.

Decree on the Compensation and Resettlement of the Development Project No. 192/PM.

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Legislation & Policies
Legislation
National Policies
June, 2005
Laos

Article 1 - Objectives: "This decree defines principles, rules, and measures to mitigate adverse social impacts and to compensate damages that result from involuntary acquisition or repossession of land and fixed or movable assets, including change in land use, restriction of access to community or natural resources affecting community livelihood and income sou

Housing and property restitution in the context of the return of refugees and internally displaced persons

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Reports & Research
May, 2005
Global

At its fifty-sixth session the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human
Rights, in its resolution 2004/2, welcomed the progress report of the Special Rapporteur and
requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to circulate
the draft principles on housing and property restitution for refugees and displaced persons

How Should the ‘Ndung’u’ Report Recommendations be Implemented? - What Kenyans Say.

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Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2004
Kenya

The report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Illegal/Irregular Allocation of Public Land is finally out! Popularly known as the ‘Ndung’u’ Report, the publication of this three-volume document is important to the Kenya Land Alliance for two major reasons.

History Repeating itself in Zimbabwe? Evictions in 2002 and 1948

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Reports & Research
January, 2003
Zimbabwe
Africa

Presents two personal testimonies of eviction and dispossession to illustrate the long and complex political history of land in Zimbabwe. The first concerns the eviction of white commercial farmers from one district in December 2002, the second of black peasant farmers in 1948, to make way for the white post-1945 white war veterans.

The crisis of land distribution in Southern Africa

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December, 2001
South Africa
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Sub-Saharan Africa

Those who led southern African states to independence promised to redress the inequalities of settler colonialism by returning the land to the people. A generation later the rural poor are still waiting. Many lack access and full rights to agricultural land and, as developments in Zimbabwe and South Africa show, they are getting angry. Where did post-independence land reform policy go wrong?

Expropiación indirecta : justificación, regímenes, casos, criterios y usos

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Journal Articles & Books
United States of America
Peru

A partir del análisis de la jurisprudencia de la Corte Suprema norteamericana y del Tribunal Constitucional peruano, así como de nuestro marco normativo, el autor analiza los diversos criterios para determinar cuando estamos frente un supuesto de expropiación indirecta, tales como a magnitud de la medida, la expectativa razonable, el beneficio del Estado, la inviabilidad económica del bien, ent

El procedimiento de expropiación por vía administrativa en Colombia. Análisis sobre los derechos del arrendatario de un inmueble sujeto a tal medida administrativa

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Reports & Research
Colombia

Civilmente se han definido los derechos personales, derechos de crédito o crédito, como aquellos que solamente pueden reclamarse de ciertas personas, que por un hecho suyo o por la sola disposición de la Ley han contraído obligaciones correlativas.