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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2015
    Myanmar

    Dirty coal mining by military cronies & Thai companies,
    Ban Chaung, Dawei District, Myanmar.....Executive Summary: "This report was researched and written collaboratively by Dawei Civil Society Organizations
    and documents the environmental and social impacts of the Ban Chaung coal mining project
    in Dawei District of Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region. Based on desk research, interviews
    with villagers, and direct engagement with companies and government, it exposes how

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2012
    Myanmar

    Land grabbing is an urgent concern for people in Tanintharyi Division, and
    ultimately one of national and international concern, as tens of thousands of people are being displaced
    for the Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Dawei lies within Myanmar’s (Burma) southernmost
    region, the Tanintharyi Division, which borders Mon State to the North, and Thailand to the East, on
    territory that connects the Malay Peninsula with mainland Asia. This highly populated and prosperous

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 1942
    Myanmar

    CHAPTER VII. Land Tenure:
    "Salient differences between tenures in autocratic and democratic
    groups rights and claims in autocratic group of chief, headman,
    specialists, the whole community, the individual resident
    and the individual cultivator the principles governing these rights
    and claims the rights and principles of tenure in democratic group
    land tenure in practice the "bul ram" individual tenure and its effects
    communal land possible solutions to land problems".

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2017
    Myanmar

    Since 2012, land governance in Myanmar has been undergoing major changes. This article aims to capture the changes of the last year, framed through my perception of working as a consultant for a range of local NGOs, INGOs and donors. While this will inevitably be coloured by my own experience, I hope that I can present for wider discussion and reflection some of the key events and issues that I have found interesting over the past year...The Myanmar National Land Use Policy (NLUP) was published in March 2016, after 2 public consultations that took place during 2014 and 2015.

  5. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    April, 2012
    Myanmar

    N. B. The title of this article, published in the April-May issue of "The Mon Forum", uses the term "Bill" which implies that the law has not been adopted. Elsewhere in the article, however, it is clear that the analysis is of the adopted Law...

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2014
    Myanmar

    This Situation Update describes events occurring in Bu Tho Township, Hpapun District from February to June 2014, including land confiscation, extortion, violent abuse and updates on economic development projects and access to education: Tatmadaw Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) #434 confiscated villagers’ farm lands in Meh Ka Law village tract.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2014
    Myanmar

    This Situation Update describes events occurring in Thandaunggyi Township, Toungoo District during the period between April and June 2014, including land confiscation and access to education, healthcare and livelihoods: The Burma/Myanmar government provided 1,000 kyat (US $0.97) in A--- village for each student; however the teacher did not pay out the money to the students, saying that she had paid out the money for the cost of transporting school books...There are some mid-wives and medics provided by the Burma/Myanmar government who visit villagers in Maung Nwe Gyi village tract, Kon Tain

  8. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    November, 2013
    Myanmar

    This article traces the revenue category and legal concept of the Waste Land in Burma/Myanmar
    from its original application by the British colonial apparatus in the nineteenth century, to its
    later use in tandem with Burma Army counterinsurgent tactics starting in the 1960s, and finally
    to the 2012 land laws and current issues in international investment. This adaptation of colonial
    ideas about territorialization in the context of an ongoing civil war offers a new angle for under-

  9. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    August, 2012
    Myanmar

    Notification No 62/2012 -
    14 Waxing Wagaung 1374 ME
    (31, August, 2012) -
    Designating the Date of Coming into Force of Farm Land Law...The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation promulgated the following rules by using the
    power vested by the section-42, sub-section (a) of farm land law with the approval of
    Pyidaungsu Government....
    1. These rules shall be called farm land rules.
    2. The words and expressions contained in these rules shall mean as contained
    in Farm Land Law. And the following words shall mean as described...

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