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Myanmar: Dawei locals, CSOs raise concerns over violation of human rights

By: Khine Kyaw

Date: March 10th 2016

Source: The Nation / Myanmar Eleven

CIVIL SOCIETY organisations (CSOs) and local residents living near the Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ) have called for action from the Japanese, Myanmar and Thai governments to tackle human rights violations before allowing the project to resume.

Put land in the hands of women for economic transformation – A call for policy makers

Date: 10 July 2016

Source: UNECA

Kigali, 10 July 2016 (ECA) – On the eve of the Kigali 27th African Union Summit, Land Policy Initiative (LPI) - an initiative of the African Union Commission (AUC), Economic Commission (ECA) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) - launched a campaign aiming at documented allocation of 30 percent of land to African Women by 2025.

'Losing our land like losing our lives', Brazil activist tells World Bank

By: Chris Arsenault

Date: March 16th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Investors describe it as one of the last frontiers for major agricultural expansion - a vast area in Brazil's poor northeast that the government is eager to open up to investors hoping to set up big new soy farms and cattle ranches.

“If We Lose Our Land, Where Do We Go?”

Women have not been given any land in Junwani, while other villagers have been shortchanged.

“If We Lose Our Land, Where Do We Go?”

Source: Rural India Online
Author: Shirish Khare

Malaysian palm oil giant IOI suspended from RSPO

By: Philip Jacobson

Date: March 5th 2016

Source: Mongabay

Strict action from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.

The green image of one of Malaysia’s largest conglomerates suffered a major blow on Friday with its suspension from the world’s largest association for ethical palm oil production, the RSPO.

Bangladesh: 'Recognise ethnic minorities as indigenous people'

By: Star Country Desk

Date: August 10th 2016

Source: The Daily Star

Ethnic minorities in Bangladesh observed the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples yesterday with a call for recognising them as indigenous people in the constitution.

Speakers at the programmes in different districts urged the government to ensure their education, health, land and social rights.