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Displaying 2001 - 2010 of 2403HRCP demands probe into land grabbing in Karachi
By: Web Desk
Date: April 19th 2016
Source: The News Tribe
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has demanded an urgent and thorough investigation into the land acquisition practices in Karachi by the largest real estate developers in the country and expressed concerns over reports of use of the state’s coercive powers to deprive rightful owners of their land.
Tanzanian land rights victory earns Masaai leader Goldman prize
By: John Vidal
Date: April 18th 2016
Source: The Guardian
Edward Loure wins leading environmental award after helping communities in Tanzanian Rift Valley secure legal title to ancestral land
It takes more than a law to ensure equal land rights for women
By: Astrid Zweynert
Date: April 15th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
OXFORD, England, April 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Laws giving men and women equal rights to land are not enough to ensure equality if they are not accompanied by efforts to empower and educate women, said the head of an organisation working to put the power of the law into people's hands.
Land tenure still a challenge for women in Latin America
By: IPS
Date: April 13th 2016
Source: Caribbean 360
SANTIAGO, Chile, Thursday April 13, 2016, IPS – Rural women in Latin America continue to face serious obstacles to land tenure, which leave them vulnerable, despite their growing importance in food production and food security.
Zimbabwe Land Issue Unresolved 36 Years After Independence
By: Loirdham Moyo
Date: April 12th 2016
Source: VOA Zimbabwe
MUTARE, MANICALAND — Zimbabweans took up arms to fight against colonialism with the land question as a driving force for achieving black majority rule in the southern African nation.
World needs ‘new vision for urbanization,’ says UN chief
Date: April 12th 2016
Source: UN News Centre
12 April 2016 – Welcoming Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa to the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said the world needs a new vision for urbanization – a “New Urban Agenda” – to help protect the environment and limit climate change.
India: Vasundhara Raje wins the ‘title’ on reforms
By: Swati Ramanathan
Date: April 8th 2016
Source: Live Mint
OPINION
The passage of the Rajasthan Urban Land (Certification of Titles) Bill marks the most dramatic event in the history of property rights reforms in the country
Brazil court halts government land reform program over abuse
By: Reese Ewing
Date: April 7th 2016
Source: Reuters / Daily Mail
SAO PAULO, April 7 (Reuters) - A Brazilian court has ordered the government to suspend its agrarian reform program, citing evidence that instead of helping the poor it was used to hand out free land to thousands of politicians, business owners and wealthy individuals.
Malawi: Minister Condemns Lilongwe 'Land Grab'
By: Mphatso Nkhoma
Date: April 7th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Nyasa Times
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Atupele Muluzi has condemned land grabbing in the capital city Lilongwe from Asian business people by a group of local business traders.
A group f traders over the weekend grabbed land belonging to an Asian businessman in Malangalanga and shared it among themselves.
Indonesian indigenous group seeks return of ancestral land
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.