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Displaying 1951 - 1960 of 2403Taiwan's Aborigines Hope A New President Will Bring Better Treatment
By: Anthony Kuhn
Date: June 11th 2016
Source: NPR.org
On a busy Taipei street corner, students in tribal tunics, bare feet and temporary facial tattoos are taking part in an impromptu ceremony.
The students, aboriginals at National Taiwan University, line up and shout out their names and the names of their tribes. Recounting their hardships, some of them weep.
Sample of world cities shows risky lack of planning: UN experts
By: Ellen Wulfhorst
Date: June 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dangerously weak planning is leading to unchecked urban sprawl, leaving new city dwellers far from transportation and services, United Nations experts said.
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"Feminine" virtues blamed for unequal land rights in Rwanda, research shows
Female "silence and submissiveness" stop women from taking advantage of equal property laws in Rwanda
By Anna Pujol-Mazzini
Land investments, accountability and the law: Lessons from West Africa
The recent wave of land deals for agribusiness investments has highlighted the widespread demand for greater accountability in the governance of land and investment. Legal frameworks influence opportunities for accountability, and recourse to law has featured prominently in grassroots responses to the land deals.
Urban LandMark
"Urban LandMark" is short for the Urban Land Markets Programme Southern Africa. Based in Pretoria, the programme was set up in May 2006 with seven years of funding from the UK's Department for International Development until March 2013. The initiative is now hosted at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa.
Kazakh government invites opponents to discuss land reform
By: Olzhas Auyezov
Date: May 12th 2016
Source: Reuters
President Nazarbayev's plans to privatise farmland have sparked rare public protests in the Central Asian nation
ALMATY, May 12 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's government, facing a wave of unrest over farmland privatisation plans, invited some opponents of the reform to join a commission set up on Thursday to review it.
Map could aid fight by indigenous people for Central America land
By: Sebastien Malo
Date: May 12th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new map shows areas occupied by indigenous people in Central America, using previously untapped native knowledge, that could help claims by local tribes to ancestral land amid rapid deforestation, its makers said.