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From traditional land rights to long-term leases: fair compensation?
In the face of displacement due to large-scale development projects, can innovative legal solutions be used to protect smallholders' land rights?
Land tenure is a complex and sensitive issue throughout West Africa and nowhere more so than in Niger.
Download new book 'Wasted Lives: A Critique of China's Campaign to End Tibetan Pastoral Lifeways'
Announcing a new downloadable book which may interest you, and connect you with the pastoralists of the high plateau of Tibet.
The new book: Wasted Lives: A Critique of China’s Campaign to End Tibetan Pastoral Lifeways is an in-depth synthesis of all available sources on the nomads of Tibet, and the pressure they are under to sedentarise and abandon mobility.
Palm oil regulator asked to investigate illegal land grabs by Wilmar Group supplier in Borneo
Borneo human rights organization files complaint alleging multiple breaches of RSPO standards by palm oil supplier PT. Swadaya Mukti Prakarsa / First Resources.
Using the law for resource justice
Large-scale resource developments can threaten people's land and the quality of their environment. Now a new initiative is bringing grassroots organisations together with international lawyers to fight for resource justice.
Peru: Indigenous Communities Demand Land Rights
The oil company that exploited the their lands “has been an uninvited and messy guest for the past four decades,” declared indigenous communities.
Peruvian Indigenous communities from the northern region of Loreto filed a lawsuit Thursday to order the regional government to comply with the indigenous right to land.
SDSN publishes final report on "Indicators and a Monitoring Framework for the Sustainable Development Goals"
The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) has recently published its final report on Indicators and a Monitoring Framework for the Sustainable Development Goals: Launching a data revolution for the SDGs.
FULL-TIME JOB VACANCY RESEARCHER ON WOMEN AND LAND
The Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) is seeking highly-qualified applicants for the position of Researcher on Women and Land. This position will be responsible for developing and implementing a research and advocacy agenda focusing on the impacts of large-scale international land acquisitions on women’s human rights in Africa and Asia. This position reports to the Deputy Director of the Women’s Rights Division. The position will ideally be based in Africa or Asia.
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Aboriginal land claim success in Gulf of Carpentaria after 40-year battle
Deed of grant handed to the Yanyuwa people, covering four islands and Batten Point, at Jawuma near Borroloola, correcting omission in first land grant
After a near 40-year fight, the final 200 hectares of a contentious Aboriginal land claim has been handed back to traditional owners in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
On Tuesday the Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, delivered a deed of grant to the Yanyuwa people, covering four small islands and Batten Point, at Jawuma near Borroloola.
Data and Analysis for More Secure Land Rights, Better Land Use, and Shared Prosperity
What do pastoralist women, agri-businesses, software companies, investment bankers, directors of land departments, activists, project managers, and university professors have in common? They all have a stake in how land rights are assigned and regulated and how this scarce resource is used. Over 1,000 of them gathered from more than 120 countries to take part in the 16th annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty from March 23 to 27.