Land policy initiative update: steering committee lauds progress, approves 2015 work plan
Committee Report on Department of Rural Development & Land Reform Budget, Riemvasmak & Rama Communal Property Association progress reports
The meeting began with the adoption of the draft report on the budget vote 39, where a number of small issues were raised, including typos and minor amendments. The main thrust of the changes was that the Land Claims Court should be given greater priority, and a policy needed to be put in place to help with alleviating the bottlenecks in these courts. The adoption of the report became heated when the DA abstained from approving it, even though they had been a part of the process from the beginning.
Uganda Economic Update, February 2015
This Fifth Edition of the Uganda
Economic Update presents evidence that if the urbanization
process is well managed, it has the potential to stimulate
economic growth and to provide productive jobs for a greater
proportion of Uganda s young and rapidly expanding
population. In many countries across the world, the growth
of cities has stimulated the establishment and expansion of
productive businesses by reducing the distance between
La Agroecología en el Ecuador: Apuntes para su reflexión
La presente cartilla recoge, primero: un artículo que motiva sobre las razones para hablar sobre agroecología en el Ecuador, segundo: los resultados preliminares del estudio de caso en la provincia de Pichincha y su comparación con productores de Loja y Guayas; lo cual nos a conocer tiplogías de productores y sus momentos de transición hacia la agroecología.
Recife: Os impactos da Copa do Mundo 2014
O projeto nacional "Metropolização e Megaeventos: impactos da Copa do Mundo e das Olimpíadas nas metrópoles brasileiras", coordenado pelo INCT Observatório das Metrópoles, teve como objetivo ampliar o espectro analítico sobre as transformações físico-territoriais, socioeconômicas, ambientais e simbólicas associadas a estes megaeventos.
Ministerial Policy Statement For Lands, Housing and Urban Development VOTE 012 & 156 FY 2015/16
Madam Speaker and Honorable Members, the vision of my Ministry is “Sustainable Land Use, Land Tenure Security, Affordable, Decent Housing and Organized Urban Development”.
The Mission is “To ensure sustainable land management, planned urban and rural development and decent housing for all”. The Mandate is “To ensure rational and sustainable use, effective management of land and orderly development of urban and rural areas as well as safe, planned and adequate housing for socio-economic development”.
Realising women’s human rights in Malaysia
Why do activist groups representing some of society’s most marginalized employ legalistic forms of ‘rights talk’ when the reality of securing rights via the judicial system is almost unimaginable? The article considers this question in relation to the work of the Malaysian non-governmental organisation (NGO) EMPOWER who, in 2011, produced the Malaysian Women’s Human Rights Report focusing attention on the rights of informal sector workers, refugees, sexual minorities and women’s rights under non-Islamic family law.