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Displaying 2311 - 2320 of 2403Vietnam: Programme seeks to improve land rights
By: VNS
Date: January 20th 2016
Source: Vietnam News
HA NOI (VNS) — Eight million ethnic minority people across the country are expected to benefit from a project that launched in Ha Noi yesterday to promote their land rights.
‘Land loans’ offer Tanzania’s women entrepreneurs chance to grow
By: Agencies
Date: January 19th 2016
Source: Citizen Digital
Mshindi Mayenga, a hairdresser in the Tanzanian capital, had a vision to expand her business.
She wanted to transform her small salon from a dilapidated rented room into a larger ‘main street’ enterprise, but every time she applied for a bank loan her request was turned down.
Stop Doing Business in Settlements, Human Rights Watch Urges
By: JTA
Date: January 19th 2016
Source: Forward.com
JERUSALEM — Human Rights Watch said businesses should stop operating in West Bank Jewish settlements because they violate Palestinian rights.
UN-Habitat Releases Global Urban Lectures Season 3
In April 2014 UN-Habitat launched the Global Urban Lectures – lecture packages focused on subjects related to cities and urbanization.
Poverty overarching reason behind land grabbing
By: Staff Correspondent
Date: January 10, 2016
Source: The Daily Star
Observes an ongoing study by a unit of Brac University
Like Hindus many poor Muslims get robbed of their property by influential people across the country, finds an ongoing study.
'Set Up Special Courts for Land Grab Cases'
By: Express News Service
Date: January 10th 2016
Source: New Indian Express
BENGALURU: The state government on Saturday was urged to set up special courts, envisaged in the Karnataka Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, and bring the offenders to book without any further delay.
Belize establishes commission to protect indigenous land rights
By: EFE
Date: January 13, 2016
Source: Fox News Latino
Belizean Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister Vanessa Retreage has officially appointed members of the Toledo Maya Land Rights Commission to implement the Caribbean Court of Justice's consent order for protecting the land rights of indigenous peoples.
Factbox: Haiti six years after the quake - What's changed?
By Anastasia Moloney
Date: Jan 13th, 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, killed more than 200,000 people, leveled much of the capital Port-au-Prince and left 1.5 million Haitians homeless.