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Forced by tradition to give up inheritance, Indian women embrace property ownership
By: Rina Chandran
Date: November 2nd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
CHAKSU, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Days before she was married 18 years ago, K. Bina Devi and her sister were called to the living room of the family home where they lived with their parents and four brothers.
Senegal airport row shows land right tensions in West Africa
The piles of concrete and twisted metal in the Tobago neighbourhood beside Dakar's international airport were home to Senegalese families until bulldozers arrived last month without warning.
A line of six homes remain, given a reprieve until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Looking at the rubble of their former homes, the head of the residents' association says he does not believe the government's explanation that the houses were a security risk.
Domestic violence rife amid Cambodia land conflicts: rights group
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: November 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
KOH KONG, Cambodia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Facing eviction from the five-hectare rice plot he had been farming for years and worried about how he would feed his three kids, Ngeth Sim did something he will always regret.
Burma: Land Rights Activists Are Newest Political Prisoners
AUGUST 15, 2015
Burma: Land Rights Activists Are Newest Political Prisoners
Arrests in Karen State Target Those Assisting Farmers Fighting Land Grabs
Call to overhaul ‘unfair’ 1998 resolution to determine forest land rights
Source: The Nation
By: Pratch Rujivanarom & Stella Davies
Academics have urged the authorities to admit that people can live in forests while adjusting methods to prove land rights to include evidence from the field and from local residents to resolve land and forest management conflicts.
U.S. lawmakers urge end to Honduras security aid after murder of land rights activist
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: 13 December 2016
Source: Thomsn Reuters Foundation
A group of U.S. lawmakers is making a year-end push to suspend millions of dollars in military assistance to Honduras, citing mounting human rights concerns, including the murder of high-profile land rights activist Berta Caceres.
Angola grants 7,000 hectares of land to Cabo Verde
The government of Angola granted a plot of 7,000 hectares in Kwanza Sul province to Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) for agricultural development, said Thursday the Cape Verdean ambassador to Angola, Francisco Veiga.
The ambassador, at the end of a courtesy visit to the governor of Kwanza Sul, Eusébio de Brito Teixeira, said the government would now consider what to produce on the land but said that maize production from improved seeds was one of the priority crops.