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Protected forest reclassified as private land
The entirety of three protected forests are now classified as private land, an investigation from rights group Adhoc has found, along with tens of thousands of additional hectares of what has once been state public land.
In total, an area slightly smaller than the size of Jakarta has been reclassified since the beginning of this year.
In three cases, Adhoc’s findings show that entire protected forests – Snoul Wildlife Santuary, Preah Vihear Protected Area and Peam Krasob Wildlife Sanctuary – have now been reclassified.
Brazil court halts government land reform program over abuse
By: Reese Ewing
Date: April 7th 2016
Source: Reuters / Daily Mail
SAO PAULO, April 7 (Reuters) - A Brazilian court has ordered the government to suspend its agrarian reform program, citing evidence that instead of helping the poor it was used to hand out free land to thousands of politicians, business owners and wealthy individuals.
Ethiopia: Rehabilitating Dry Lands Ensures Global Food Security - IFAD
By Desta Gebrehiwot
Date: November 15th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Ethiopian Herald
The United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) stressed the need for rehabilitating dry lands in order to cope with the negative impacts of climate change, land degradation and drought.
One year of Nepal quake: Thousands yet to get funds to rebuild
By: Shubham Ghosh
Date: April 25th 2016
Source: One India
Kathmandu, April 25: A year has lapsed since a devastating earthquake left Nepal in the ruins but still several people, particularly the women, are yet to get funds to rebuild their lost property for they do not own land and neither can prove the ownership of the land where they lived, international anti-poverty organisation Oxfam informed last week.
Rights activists demand land reforms in Pakistan
Locals fearful as mega-projects drive rush for land on Kenya's coast
By:Sophie Mbugua
Date: 8 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
WITU, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Too poor to buy land where they grew up on Kenya's palm-fringed southern coast, Sylvester Jefua and his wife migrated 300 kms northwards to Witu Forest, where they felled seven acres of trees and built a mud and thatch house for their family.
Ten years later, Jefua, 36, still does not feel secure.
Thai villagers seek answers to disappearance of land rights activist
By: Alisa Tang
Date: May 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Villagers from northeast Thailand traveled to Bangkok on Tuesday to demand that police and human rights groups investigate the disappearance of a prominent land rights activist who went missing last month.