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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2018
    Brazil

    O Assentamento Dois Riachões é composto por 38 famílias, com cerca de 170 pessoas e está situada no município de Ibirapitanga-BA no território Baixo Sul da Bahia no Bioma Mata Atlântica a 380 km da capital - Salvador. A Comunidade está organizada em associação, composta por uma coordenação colegiada, representantes da executiva (presidente, secretário e tesoureiro) e setores de produção (gênero, e

  2. Library Resource
    Attacks and criminalization of Indigenous Peoples defending their lands and rights

    Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

    Reports & Research
    August, 2018
    Global

    The Secretariat has the honour to present to the Human Rights Council the report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, prepared pursuant to Council resolution 33/12. In the report the Special Rapporteur briefly refers to the activities undertaken since the submission of her last report, provides a thematic study on attacks against and the criminalization of indigenous human rights defenders and reflects on available prevention and protection measures. She concludes with recommendations on how various stakeholders can prevent violations and improve protection.

  3. Library Resource

    Online debate report

    Reports & Research
    November, 2021
    Southern Africa

    Report from the online discussion held on the Land Portal between 28 June and 9 July 2021.

    The online discussion explored the different pespectives around customary law and institutions in Southern Africa and the roles they play in governing land.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Legislation & Policies
    Other legal document
    May, 2017
    India

    This Environmental Annual report 2016-17 is prepared by The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India.

    This Report contains activities and achievements of planning, promotion, co-ordination and overseeing the implementation of India's environmental and forestry policies and programmes in yearly basis.

    The areas that this report deals are as follows: 

    ·         Natural Resources- Surveys and explorations by different departments under the ministry

    ·         Environmental Impact Assessments

  5. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 1996
    India

    The hill areas of the country especially the Himalayan and the Western Ghats Regions, were recognised as areas which required to be given special attention for restoration of ecological balance. In pursuance of the policy of accelerating the development of hill areas in the country and at the suggestion of the National Development Council (1972) the centrally sponsored Western Ghats Development Programme (WGDP) was introduced in 1974-75 for integrated developoment of Western Ghats Region.

  6. Library Resource
    Other legal document
    June, 2017
    India

    MoEFCC is the central ministry of Government of India, responsible for forest administration in the country; the page provides information on forest laws, acts, rules and guidelines etc.

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    Legislation
    March, 1938
    India

    This Act may be called the West Bengal land Reforms Act, 1955. It extends to the whole of West Bengal [except the area described in Schedule I of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980, but not excepting the area included in the said Schedule, which, immediately before the coming into force of the Calcutta Muncipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 1983, wascomprised in the municipality of Jadavpur, South Suburban or Garden Reach. 


    This act is modified up to the 1st January, 1999.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2022
    Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Western Asia, Europe, Oceania, Global

    The ongoing use of landscape-based conflict commodities — diamonds and other minerals, timber, wildlife, etc. — to finance wars continues to evolve. The success with which such commodities can be transacted to support militaries, militias and insurgencies has led belligerents to innovate with additional commodities. Housing, land and property (HLP) rights within war zones have belatedly joined the list of conflict commodities that are subject to transaction, and to such an extent as to warrant significant concern.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2014
    India

    This report comprises of a comprehensive assessment of the status of land governance in the Indian state of West Bengal, by using the World Bank’s Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) during 2013-1014. This report presents its findings. The assessment was taken up in nine distinct thematic areas of land governance as envisaged in the LGAF.

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2014
    India

    This report comprises of a comprehensive assessment of the status of land governance in the Indian state of Bihar, by using the World Bank’s Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) during 2013-1014. This report presents its findings. The assessment was taken up in nine distinct thematic areas of land governance as envisaged in the LGAF.

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