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Challenging Family and Custom, Women Assert Legal Right to Inherit Land
Traditionally, women in the DRC gained shares in property through marriage, not inheritance. Today few realize that this custom contradicts the law, which codifies women’s rights to inherit land. In the North Kivu province, one organization is spreading awareness of the law and helping to resolve inheritance disputes.
RUTSHURU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO — When Salima Salumu’s mother died, she left a large plot of land for her children and ignited a conflict that is not unusual here in the North Kivu province.
Women Farmers’ Land Rights: Closing the Global Gender Gap in the Midst of Climate Change
(IPS) – In Meghalaya, India’s northeastern biodiversity hotspot, all three major tribes are matrilineal. Children take the mother’s family name, while daughters inherit the family lands.
Because women own land and have always decided what is grown on it and what is conserved, the state not only has a strong climate-resistant food system but also some of the rarest edible and medicinal plants, researchers said.
Le guide pour la sécurisation foncière sur les aménagements hydro-agricoles au Niger validé et prêt à l’emploi
Konni, Samedi 17 juin 2017 - Les acteurs de l’irrigation et du foncier rural au Niger, réunis les 16 et 17 juin à Konni, ont validé le guide qui permettra de conduire les opérations de sécurisation foncière sur l’ensemble des périmètres irrigués du territoire national. Le guide a été réalisé par l’office national des Aménagements hydro-agricoles (ONAHA) en collaboration avec la Global Water Initiative (GWI) sur la base d’une activité pilote menée à Namardé Goungou.
In Uganda, row over land shines light on historic kingdom
In April, three bus loads of men carrying sticks and machetes arrived in the village with the bulldozer - angry residents fought back
BUGABO, Uganda June 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - "This land is peaceful," said Abdul Seryazi, standing in his family fields in Bugabo, a village in central Uganda.
But a charred bulldozer alongside tells a different story.
In April, three bus loads of men carrying sticks and machetes arrived in the village with the bulldozer.
Nigerian court rules against mass eviction in Lagos - activists
Lagos state announced its intention to demolish the homes of around 300,000 people last year and this ruling is a landmark for residents resisting eviction
LONDON, June 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A series of brutal, government-ordered evictions that left more than 30,000 Nigerians homeless were deemed "unconstitutional" in a landmark decision by the Lagos High Court on Wednesday, activists said.
Garifuna Exchange on the Fight for Land: Honduras and Belize
The event, titled “Honduras: The Fight for Reparations,” is scheduled to last for 12 days.
A delegation of six Garifunas from Belize are scheduled to travel to the Honduran Caribbean coast on Sunday to learn about Garifuna struggles and victories for land repossession, reparations and other ancestral fights.
Collective rights prevail over private ownership
Tribespeople say individual ownership could lead to fragmentation of land
Edamalakudi’s Oorukkoottam — assembly of people in the tribal hamlet and officials — arrived at an unusual decision last month: no individual household in the panchayat would individually own forestland as guaranteed by the Forest Rights Act.
On International Day, UN says widows' rights to independent life, livelihood after loss must be ensured
23 June 2017 – Whether they are single, married, separated or widowed, women must be able to enjoy the inviolable right that they are not dependent on anyone, the United Nations has said, marking International Widow's Day.
Maasai land loss raises tensions in Kenya ahead of elections
Many cash-strapped Maasai have become landless after subdividing and selling swathes of land to the south of Nairobi
NAIROBI, June 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kenya's opposition leader has raised tensions weeks ahead of elections by criticising the Maasai community's sale of ancestral land to other ethnic groups in an area hit by political violence in the 1990s, land rights experts said.