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Displaying 2301 - 2310 of 2403South Africa: New land expropriation law nears completion
By: Jenni Evans
Date: January 26th 2016
Source: News24
Cape Town - A proposed new expropriation law is nearing completion, with MPs putting the final touches to a key element of the government's land reform programme.
Myanmar police force hundreds from factory area slums as land-grabbing grows rampant
By: Agence France-Presse
Date: January 26th 2016
Source: South China Morning Post
Hundreds of Myanmar families were left destitute on Tuesday after government workers used mechanical diggers to flatten swathes of Yangon slum housing as the bitter competition for land intensifies in the fast-industrialising city.
Tanzanians evicted from flood-prone city areas have nowhere to go
By: Kizito Makoye
Date: January 25th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - "Free education but nowhere to sleep!" reads a poster scrawled in Swahili in Dar es Salaam's Jangwani slum, summing up the plight of hundreds of residents forcibly evicted from flood-prone areas of the Tanzanian capital.
Droits fonciers et patrimonial: vers la mise en place des comptoirs d'assistance aux femmes victimes de violation
Par: Vivien Tonfack
Date: Janvier 21 2016
Source: La Nouvelle Expression
Des concertations y afférentes se sont achevées le mardi 19 janvier 2016, dans la ville de Bafoussam. Dans un premier temps, cinq villes de l’Ouest seront concernées.
Ban Ki-moon préoccupé par l'accaparement de terres par Israël en Cisjordanie
Date: Janvier 21 2016
Source: french.xinhuanet.com
NEW YORK (Nations Unies), 21 janvier (Xinhua) -- Le secrétaire général de l'ONU Ban Ki-moon a exprimé mercredi sa profonde préoccupation vis-à-vis du projet du gouvernement israélien de s'approprier de nouvelles terres en Cisjordanie.
Frustrations about landlessness in South Africa continues to brew
By: Rashida Ntotela
Date: January 22nd 2016
Source: Cii News
It seems the African National Congress (ANC) has a long way to go in redressing the historical injustice of land dispossession, denial of access to land and forced removals in South Africa.
Death Threats and Detention in Paraguay
By: Fionuala Cregan
Date: January 20th 2016
Source: IC Magazine
NEW REPORT DOCUMENTS CHALLENGES OF DEFENDING INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS IN THE PARAGUAYAN CHACO
"We don't care if our struggle involves going to prison or even dying. Our struggle is about justice because the land is ours and our children's." –Alejandro Servín
Haiti’s Fraudulent Presidential Frontrunner Seizes Land for His Own Banana Republic
By: Joshua Steckley and Beverly Bell
Date: January 21st 2016
Source: Upsidedownworld.org
This report is based on extensive interviews, on-site and via phone, with more than 20 government officials, economic development professionals, peasant farmers, and community organizers, between July 2015 and January 2016. We reached out to Agritrans for comment, but they did not respond.
Kenya: Why titles given to Waitiki land beneficiaries may be irregular
By: F.T. ODHIAMBO
Date: January 21st 2016
Source: Standard Digital
The validity of the title deeds issued to the beneficiaries of Waitiki land in Mombasa County recently is suspect as the procedure used is not supported by any existing land law. Maybe this is because the process was actually the formalisation of an illegality to benefit those who had invaded the land.
