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Land concentration and food security in Central America (es)

 

By: Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu

Date: August 17th 2016

Source: Human Rights Watch

Enact Proposed Law to Protect Rural Communities

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Date: August 29th 2016

Source: UN Press Release

29 August 2016 – Speaking ahead of a major peace conference in Myanmar, a United Nations independent expert has urged its participants to prioritise human rights issues in their discussions over the coming days, and to do more to ensure the process is fully inclusive.

The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges works to influence public opinion in favor of limiting human-caused climate change.

Via Business World Online

August 18, 2015 | MANILA, PHILIPPINES

Posted on August 17, 2015 09:34:00 PM

By Tzili Mor, Director of the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights

 

Women’s rights and customary wrongs

SEATTLE -- One of the greatest challenges facing women in much of the world is the gap between their legal rights and their ability as individuals to claim them.

By: Beh Lih Yi

Date: September 6th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

"This research suggests that banks continue to turn a blind eye to the devastating impacts of their financial services"

JAKARTA, Sept 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Banks have financed companies responsible for rainforest destruction in Southeast Asia to the tune of billions of dollars, a study showed Tuesday, and called on lenders to stop "fuelling forest crime".

Just three years after the 2007-08 food crisis, the food security of poor people and vulnerable groups, especially women and children, is under threat as the pric

Women’s groups led by the National Federation of Peasant Women (Amihan) stormed the office of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Quezon City on the International Day of Rural Women, Oct. 15, to protest poverty, hunger and landlessness.

The groups then proceeded to Manila and brought their protest to the Don Chino Roces bridge (formerly Mendiola) near Malacanang.

By: Roy Prosterman (Landesa)

Date: September 20th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Could the newly democratic nation become Asia's sixth development success story?

Since World War II, there have been five great Asian development success stories founded upon land tenure reforms that allocated land ownership, or equivalent long-term land rights, into the hands of small farmers. Will Burma be the sixth?

The Future Agricultures Consortium’s call for its Early Career Fellowship Programme is now open, and candidates are asked to apply by 15 February 2011. The Early Career Fellows