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NEWS: Land Portal celebrates 80 country profiles
New portfolio explores complex relationships between land use, rights, and conflicts
Draft: UN General Comment No. 26 on Land and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
CESCR calls for written contributions to the draft general comment on Land and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is developing a general comment on Land and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The purpose of this general comment is to clarify the specific obligations of States parties relating to land and the governance of tenure of land under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
ASSESSMENT OF THE UPTAKE OF THE SET OF 15 INDICATORS BY GLOBAL LAND INDICATORS INITIATIVE IN GLOBAL AND REGIONAL FRAMEWORKS AND BY LAND ACTORS
The Global Land Indicators Initiative (GLII) platform was established in 2012 through the joint effort of United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the World Bank and Millennium Challenge Corporation with the aim of making global-scale monitoring of land governance a reality by 2021.
Zero draft of the Ministerial declaration of the high-level segment of the 2021 session of the Economic and Social Council
Women and Community Land Rights: Investing in Local Champions
For more than five years, the Women’s Land Tenure Security (WOLTS) Project has been investigating the intersection of gender and land relations in mining-affected pastoralist communities in Mongolia and Tanzania. The aim has been to develop a methodology for long-term community engagement and capacity building to protect and support the land rights of all vulnerable people – thus to fully mainstream attention to gender equity in land tenure governance within a framework that would facilitate improvements in community land rights across the board.
Disruption or Déjà Vu? Digitalization, Land and Human Rights
Digital technologies cut off access to land
Despite promises to fix unjust land governance, a new study shows that digital technologies can further land grabbing and inequality.
New and emerging issues: land tenure
As per the provisions of rule 10 of the rules of procedures of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Conference of the Parties (COP), the second intersessional meeting of the Bureau of the thirteenth session of the COP (COP 13) held in Guiyang, China, on 26 February 2019, endorsed the inclusion of a new agenda item on land tenure, under new and emerging issues, for consideration at COP 14. The Bureau further requested the secretariat to submit a background document in that respect.
UNCCD Decision 26 / COP.14 Land tenure
UNCCD Decision 26 / COP.14 Land tenure
A Manual for Gender-Responsive Land Degradation Neutrality Transformative Projects and Programmes.
Climate- and human-induced land degradation endangers the future survival of our planet. A new focus on achieving Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) seeks to spark and grow transformative efforts to avoid, reduce and reverse land degradation through gender- and socially-equitable means.