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FULL-TIME JOB VACANCY RESEARCHER ON WOMEN AND LAND
The Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) is seeking highly-qualified applicants for the position of Researcher on Women and Land. This position will be responsible for developing and implementing a research and advocacy agenda focusing on the impacts of large-scale international land acquisitions on women’s human rights in Africa and Asia. This position reports to the Deputy Director of the Women’s Rights Division. The position will ideally be based in Africa or Asia.
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Aboriginal land claim success in Gulf of Carpentaria after 40-year battle
Deed of grant handed to the Yanyuwa people, covering four islands and Batten Point, at Jawuma near Borroloola, correcting omission in first land grant
After a near 40-year fight, the final 200 hectares of a contentious Aboriginal land claim has been handed back to traditional owners in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
On Tuesday the Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, delivered a deed of grant to the Yanyuwa people, covering four small islands and Batten Point, at Jawuma near Borroloola.
Data and Analysis for More Secure Land Rights, Better Land Use, and Shared Prosperity
What do pastoralist women, agri-businesses, software companies, investment bankers, directors of land departments, activists, project managers, and university professors have in common? They all have a stake in how land rights are assigned and regulated and how this scarce resource is used. Over 1,000 of them gathered from more than 120 countries to take part in the 16th annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty from March 23 to 27.
À la croisée des chemins : Analyse de l’impact des politiques pastorales sur les éleveurs d'Abalak, Niger
Cette étude porte sur les moyens de subsistance des éleveurs qui résident dans le département d’Abalak au Niger. L’étude analyse les méthodes de pastoralisme pratiquées par les éleveurs d’Abalak et l’incidence des politiques régionales, nationales et locales sur leurs moyens de subsistance. (Rédigé par M. Oussouby Touré).
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Accaparement des terres au Mali: des titres fonciers annulés
Au Mali, le ministère des Domaines de l'Etat et des Affaires foncières, Mohamed Ali Bathily, veut lutter contre l'accaparement illégal des terres appartenant souvent à des paysans ou des citoyens démunis. Un plan qui comprend un volet concernant la spéculation foncière. Cinquante titres ont été annulés la semaine dernière.
Russia: Khanty clans say "no" to oil companies
"This is the last piece of land where we can feed our reindeer."
In West-Siberia’s Khanty-Mansi autonomous region, a region of the size of France, where much of Russia’s crude oil is extracted, a new conflict between indigenous Khanty reindeer herders and the powerful oil producers is unfolding. The Khanty are an indigenous nation of 30,000. Their language is related to modern Hungarian and their main subsistence activities are fishing, reindeer herding, hunting and gathering.
Indigenous peoples of Peru unite to denounce imminent legal reforms that threaten land rights
In a statement published in a national newspaper, the council of AIDESEP, which represents over 1800 communities in the Peruvian Amazon called for the repeal and shelving of recent legal reforms being pushed through Peru’s parliament that threaten to further weaken indigenous peoples’ rights to land in favour of development projects. They also announced that they will file a formal complaint to the Inter American Development Bank’s (IDB) complaint mechanism if promised changes to a nationwide land titling programme remain undelivered.
Manifiestos por la tierra, las aguas, los territorios y la vida
Desde Wallmapu en los últimos años se han realizado diversos pronunciamientos relativos a la defensa y recuperación de la tierra, las aguas y los territorios desde una perspectiva identitaria, cultural y de desarrollo de vida.