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The International Seed Treaty: A resolution in support of Farmers' Rights
(Oman, September 30) La Via Campesina welcomes the adoption, on 28 September 2013, by the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, also known as the seed treaty, of a resolution calling on states to implement and support Farmers’ Rights, ie the rights of peasants and farmers over their own seeds.
China: Shandong Includes Women's Names in Land Rights Certificates
By: Yi Ming and Lü Bingbing
Date: May 3rd 2016
Source: Women of China
Over 94 percent of rural villages or communities in east China's Shandong Province have included women's names on rural land rights certificates, to safeguard their legal rights and interests, according to a Shandong Women's Federation official.
UN PREDICTS NEAR DOUBLING OF CITY DWELLERS BY 2050
Nine ways to support the rights of indigenous people
By: Holly Young @holly_young88
Source: The Guardian
Date: Friday 1 April 2016
1. Focus on the priorities
After Slowdown, Global Fight for Land Rights at Tipping Point
Protecting the world's oceans: three key tasks
Date: June 8th 2016
Source: iied
To mark World Oceans Day on 8 June, IIED director Andrew Norton sets out three ways the international community can protect marine and coastal environments.
A message for World Oceans Day 2016, with Andrew Norton
NPCP seeks comprehensive pro-poor land-agrarian reforms - Pakistan
KARACHI: A comprehensive pro-poor land and agrarian reforms programme should be introduced and implemented in Pakistan with immediate effect to alleviate poverty and bring socio-economic development, says a report issued by National Peasants Coalition of Pakistan (NPCP) here on Sunday.
For women in India's Maharashtra, land brings basic rights
By: Rina Chandran
Date: 27 June 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundations
In drought-hit Marathwada, the poorest region in India's western Maharashtra state, there is an unusually high number of single women. Some were widowed after their farmer husbands committed suicide because of debt; others were abandoned because they didn't produce a son, while some were left behind when their husbands left to search for work.
For a land of their own - India
Land distribution: mandals under HMDA limits likely to be omitted - India
Amazonian tribe take initiative to protect their lands from dam project
Source: The Guardian Global Development
The Munduruku Indians are gaining support as they fight the Brazilian government to stop their territory being submerged