News on Land

Indian land bill no remedy for conflict: activists

(AFP) – 4 hours ago  

NEW DELHI — India's land acquisition bill which the Congress-led government hopes to pass this week will only set the stage for more conflict, land rights groups said on Tuesday.

The government aims to present the bill in parliament after the cabinet approved the measure, which is seen as a crucial reform to increase infrastructure development and spur slowing economic growth.

By: Jiji

Date: August 28th 2016

Source: Japan Times

The land ministry plans to draft a multilateral framework that could help developing nations in Asia make better use of their land through careful planning, government sources said.

Date: March 22nd 2016

Source: New Kerala

New York, Mar 22 :Following a visit to Brazil, a United Nations independent human rights expert on Monday expressed alarm about the extent of documented and reported attacks on indigenous peoples in the country's central-western state of Mato Grosso Do Sul.

As slums, schools, and homes are designed and built in cities across the developing world, the urban poor are making use of new and innovative approaches to construction. A key element is sustainability: many of these approaches make better use of local materials, use energy and water more efficiently, and reduce waste and pollution. But sustainability is not the only prerequisite for success.

By: Ed Atkins

Date: September 7th 2016

Source: The Conversation

By: Manuel Mogato and Enrico dela Cruz

Date: April 1st 2016

Source: Reuters

MANILA, April 1 (Reuters) - Philippine police opened fire as a protest by thousands of rice farmers who lost their crops turned violent on Friday, killing one and wounding about a dozen, a leader of a farming group said.

The 34th Campaign Update on Land and Agrarian Rights Movements in Nepal, provided by the Community Self-reliance Center.

By: Vicki Gass

Date: September 20th 2016

Source: Oxfam America

Women are banding together in Honduras and around the world to demand #LandRightsNow.

By: Ryan Dagur

Date: April 7th 2016

Source: UCA News

'We have the right to cultivate our own property,' protester says

Nearly 200 indigenous people in Indonesia's predominantly Catholic East Nusa Tenggara province are staging a sit-in protest to regain calling for the return of their ancestral land they said was taken decades earlier by a farming corporation.

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6th August 2013
– International environmental and human rights campaigners condemn the 4th Latin
American Palm Oil Conference to be held by the Round Table on Sustainable Palm
Oil (RSPO) in Honduras on 6th-8th August

By: Silas Gbandia

Date: September 28th 2016

Source: Equal Times

A former member of Sierra Leone’s parliament has spoken of his determination to put an end to what he describes as the “underhand deals” taking place between the authorities and international palm oil producers in his country.

By: Rebecca Myles

Date: April 22nd 2016

Source: RT

Representatives from 155 countries are in New York to sign a climate-change agreement to limit the rise in global temperatures. Forest-dwelling indigenous peoples claim the pact ignores them and that they face assaults when trying to protect their land.