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OKFest, Helsinki, 17-22 September 2012- OKFEST was the world’s first Open Knowledge Festival: a week of participatory sessions, keynote lectures, workshops, hackathons and satellite events looking at the value that can be generated by opening up knowledge and the impacts transparency can have in our societies.

[adapted from UNWomen]

27 September 2012-“Accelerating Progress Toward the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women” is a five-year initiative of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World Food Programme (WFP) to be initially implem

[from SABC News] Women's rights are human rights, President Jacob Zuma said in a speech prepared for delivery at the high-level event on women's access to justice on the margins of the 67th sitting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

September 20, 2012

The development team along with other Land Observatory key members have been in Laos for the past couple of days, conducting our first, intensive co-development workshop with Lao government partners and civil society partners Land Issues Working Group.

Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights and the World Organisation against Torture), WITNESS, Amnesty International and Freedom House call for the immediate release

British Indian Ocean Territory

[Jamal Ayub via The Times of India]  Dubbed as one the biggest non-violent actions in the recent past, about one lakh people representing some 2000 organizations, would walk 380 km from Gwalior to Delhi from October 2. The 'Jan Satyagrah Samvad yatra' is aimed to raise attention about land and livelihood rights of marginalized people.

South Africa and the African continent would experience unprecedented levels of urbanisation in the next few decades which would present major challenges that governments and urban planners needed to be more aware of, Planning Minister Trevor Manuel warned yesterday.

The Global Water Partnership and the International Land Coalition are committed to work together to promote integrated land and water governance, with an emphasis on knowledge generation and sharing. This collaboration will build on the fact that the Director of the International Land Coalition Secretariat, has been recently appointed as member of GWP’s Technical Advisory Committee.

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