News on Land

By: Sandra Cuffe

Date: April 4th 2016

Source: Mongabay

• United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz visited Brazil in March.

Information received by this reporter has it that the land dispute between the settlements of Kerewan Dumbo Kono and Sinchu Chedoyel in the Upper Fulladu West District of Central River Region in the Gambia is being compounded instead of resolved.

By: Loirdham Moyo

Date: April 12th 2016

Source: VOA Zimbabwe

MUTARE, MANICALAND — Zimbabweans took up arms to fight against colonialism with the land question as a driving force for achieving black majority rule in the southern African nation.

Why do you care about women’s land rights? Isn’t it enough for the household to have land? This question is a common refrain heard from many corners of the developing world, but most disturbingly from policymakers and government officials.The answer, extensive research tells us, is threefold. Secure land rights for women:

Date: April 28th 2016

Source: Survival International

Last month Yanomami representatives in Venezuela handed in a demand to the state government for the recognition of their territory.

Speaking at the Open Government Partnership summit in London on 31 October, the secretary of state for international development, Justine Greening announced the launch of a Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (Godan) initiative, explaining that it would "improve the 

By: Barbara Fraser

Date: May 16th 2016 

Source: Forests News

New study finds that securing land rights doesn't always guarantee better livelihoods for communities in Peru, Indonesia and Uganda.

Oxford, UK (20 January 2014) – A Forest Peoples Programme report published today reveals the severe impacts of Peru’s biggest gas project on indigenous peoples in “voluntary isolation” (isolated peoples) in th

By: John Campbell

Date: June 8th 2016

Source: Council on Foreign Relations

OPINION

 Justice Mutambanengwe- - -Retired Zimbabwean High Court Judge Justice Simpson Mutambanengwe says it would be grossly naïve for anyone to expect former colonialists not to denigrate Zimbabwe's land redistribution programme when the policy literally snatched bread out of their mouths.

By: Lin Taylor

Date: 12 July 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Mass killings, forced evictions and conflicts over land put indigenous and minority groups at risk of being eradicated from their ancestral lands, a human rights group said on Tuesday.

By: Alisa Tang

Date: 24 June 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation 

 

Since 2010, four people have been killed in a community locked in a battle for the right to use government land

(Updates date of officials' visit in graf 33 and upcoming court verdict in graf 34, year of coup in graf 31.)