Cambodian human rights organizations estimate that more than half a million people have been affected by land rights issues. Land conflict in Cambodia is a clear manifestation of structural violence affecting communities which are almost exclusively low income and home to indigenous and ethnic minorities. This article explores the complex interplay of actors, particularly women and youth, in land rights social mobilization (LRSM) in Cambodia, focusing on urban Boeung Kak Lake and rural Areng Valley.

Over the past decade, the Lao government has developed the policy of ‘Turning Land into Capital’ (TLIC), a strategy for generating revenue and economic value from ‘state land’. The 450 Year Road Project built along the periphery of the Laotian capital, Vientiane, linking the national highway with the Thai border, was financed using a TLIC model. Additional land to the side of the road was acquired to be resold at rates significantly higher than the compensation provided to landowners.

ABSTRACTED FROM WEBSITE INTRODUCTION: This briefing looks at the particular situation of people displaced by armed conflict. It will do so from the perspective that displacement is complicated in its own right, but any proposed solutions to displacement must also be understood in a wider context of rapid land polarization. Failure to take this perspective risks more harm than good. For people affected by displacement, land is much more than just an economic asset.

La presente Ley establece medidas complementarias para la promoción del acceso a la propiedad formal y otorga nuevas facultades al Organismo de Formalización de la Propiedad Informal (COFOPRI), con la finalidad de permitir que la población de menores recursos económicos acceda a la formalización de sus predios, mediante mecanismos técnicos y legales de carácter simplificado y en menores plazos.El COFOPRI, a pedido de las municipalidades, diseña, implementa, gestiona y ejecuta de forma directa, las actividades catastrales de levantamiento y/o actualización catastral urbana dentro de la juris

El presente Decreto establece que la creación de la Unidad Administrativa de Planificación y Ordenamiento Territorial es de carácter obligatorio en cada Municipio. Hasta tanto los Municipios no cumplan con lo señalado, el Ministerio de Vivienda y Ordenamiento Territorial, como autoridad urbanística nacional, seguirá aplicando las leyes, decretos, acuerdos, regulaciones, reglamentaciones y normas vigentes que rigen sobre la materia urbanística en el territorio nacional o municipal.

Por medio de la presente Resolución, la Autoridad de Cuenca Matanza Riachuelo aprueba el Protocolo para el Abordaje de Procesos de Relocalización y Reurbanización de Villas y Asentamientos Precarios en la Cuenca Matanza Riachuelo.

O objectivo deste estudo é analisar sistema legal fundiário angolano à luz das recomendações propostas pelas Directrizes Voluntárias Sobre a Governança Responsável da Posse de Terra, Pescas e Florestas no Contexto da Segurança Alimentar Nacional (VGGTs no seu acrónimo inglês). 

This Country Profile (CP) of the Republic of Armenia is the nineteenth in the series and the second review done for the country. The first was prepared in 2004 and the analyses covered only the housing sector. This CP is an in-depth analyses of the housing, urban development and land management sectors of the Republic of Armenia. It provides policy recommendations on these sectors, while focusing on specific challenges and achievements.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 69 of the Land Acquisition Act 1960 [Act 486] as modified by the Federal Territory (Modification of Land Acquisition Act, 1960) Order 1974 [P.U. (A) 81/1974], Federal Territory of Putrajaya (Modification of Land Acquisition Act 1960) Order 2002 [P.U. (A) 200/2002] and Federal Territory of Labuan (Extension and Modification of Land Acquisition Act) Order 2009 [P.U. (A) 455/2009], the Minister, with the approval of the National Land Council, makes the following rules.

The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is a mutually agreed instrument established in 2003 by the African Union in the framework of the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). The objective of the APRM is to foster the adoption of policies, standards and practices that lead to political stability, high economic growth, sustainable development and accelerated regional and continental integration. The thematic intervention areas of the APRM are democracy and political governance; economic governance; cooperate governance, and; socioeconomic governance.

Las demandas de cuidado y de autonomía económica de las mujeres plantean un particular desafío para las políticas locales de vivienda, planificación, infraestructura, transporte, actividad económica, seguridad y espacio público, participación y toma de decisiones, entre otras. Es decir presentan un reto de gran magnitud para el desarrollo urbano. El presente estudio pretende contribuir al debate sobre políticas de cuidados enfocando la mirada en las ciudades latinoamericanas, en esta ocasión en la ciudad San Salvador.