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Displaying 981 - 990 of 1145Cambodia: New teams to settle land disputes announced
Authors: Niem Chheng and Jack Davies
Date: June 6th, 2016
Source: The Phnom Penh Post
Newly appointed Minister of Land Management Chea Sophara last week established a working group comprising 27 four-man teams tasked with hastening the resolution of land disputes.
Tribals hold rally for murdered leader, demand land rights
Date: June 4th, 2016
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/tribals-hold-rally-for-murdered-leader-demand-land-rights/article8688349.eceSource: The Hindu
A meeting was organised by the All-India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha (AIKMS) at Kumarabandha of Dharakote block in Ganjam district of Odisha on Friday in memory of tribal leader Adangu Gomango, who was murdered at the same village early morning on May 23.
Brazilian Indians protest plan to “undo” land rights progress
Date: June 2nd, 2016
Source: Survival International
Brazilian Indians are protesting against the country’s political elite’s threats to break up their lands and limit their rights.
As the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff moves forward, interim President Michel Temer and his newly appointed ministers are attempting to put a stop to the protection of indigenous lands.
Struggle against mining violations leaves activists exposed
Authors: Sutharee Wannasiri & Kingsley Abbott
Date: June 5th, 2016
Source: Bangkok Post
Late in the evening of May 15, 2014, more than 100 men, most of them armed and wearing black masks, stormed a small village in Loei province and assaulted more than a dozen men and women who opposed a local copper and gold mine.
Row between Peru and UK-listed cacao company turns bitter
Author: Chris Arsenault | @chrisarsenaul
Date: June 2nd, 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
A row between the Peru government and a UK-listed cacao producer accused of illegally destroying Amazon rainforest has prompted land rights campaigners to call for the removal of the company from trading on the London stock exchange.
Panama's tribes launch drones to fight deforestation
Author: Anastasia Moloney | @anastasiabogota
Date: June 2nd, 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Indigenous people in Panama are using drones as a new weapon to monitor deforestation on their lands as thousands of hectares disappear every year in one of the world's most biodiverse rainforests, the United Nations said.
More than half of Panama is covered with tropical rainforest, home to various indigenous groups who rely on the forests to survive.
Tanzania seizes 'idle' land from investors to return to poor farmers
Author: Kizito Makoye | @kizmakoye
Date: June 1st, 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Tanzania has begun a nationwide programme to seize land left undeveloped by investors and return it to poor farmers, in a bid to quell conflicts between farmers, herders and developers.
For more than a decade, foreign investors have bought up large tracts of land for agriculture or for energy projects, but many have left the land unused.
Linked Open Data and Land Governance
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