By: Edwin G. Genoway, Jr
Date: November 15th 2016
Source: Front Page Africa
By: Rina Chandran
Date: November 16th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Conflicts related to land and resources are the main reason behind stalled industrial and development projects in India, affecting millions of people and putting billions of dollars of investment and the economy's health at risk, two reports said.
By: Kirk Johnson, The New York Times
Date: November 15th 2016
Source: ADN.com
The simmering standoff between the police and Native Americans and their allies who oppose a giant oil pipeline project in North Dakota is the most visible sign yet of an emerging movement that is shifting the debate about how public lands across North America should be managed.
By: Pinaki Roy and Rezaul Hoque
Date: November 14th 2016
Source: Daily Star
It was long after sundown. Amid a shroud of darkness, a Santal family lit a fire to cook their first meal of the day.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: November 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
KOH KONG, Cambodia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Facing eviction from the five-hectare rice plot he had been farming for years and worried about how he would feed his three kids, Ngeth Sim did something he will always regret.
By: Alfred Brownell
Date: November 4th 2016
Source: India Blooms
Washington, DC Nov 4 (IBNS): Alfred Brownell, a campaigner for the land rights of Liberia's local communities, and his staff at Green Advocates have gone underground after threats from the police.
By: Galgalo Bocha
Date: November 1st 2016
Source: Daily Nation
Civil societies in Tana River County have said unresolved land ownership disputes are still a threat to the region's stability.
By: Sizwe Sama Yende
Date: November 1st 2016
Source: City Press
Criminal charges have been laid relating to one of the biggest land claim scams in the country – potentially costing the government millions – but the rural development and land reform department says it knows nothing about it.
Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan opened a criminal case on October 14 regarding the inflation of land prices in the Badplaas area.
By: Sulok Tawie
Date: October 25th 2016
Source: The Malay Mail Online
KUCHING, Oct 25 — Tan Sri Adenan Satem can prevent more deaths by establishing a Land Rights Commission to deal with disputes between natives and plantation companies, Sarawak PKR chairman Baru Bian said today.
By: Lewis S. Teh
Date: October 11th 2016
Source: The New Dawn Liberia
Liberia’s Minister of Information has warned here that land remains a major source of conflict in Liberia. Minister Lenn Eugene Nagbe said government has been involved in a land reform process for the past years, and the significance behind such reform process is to halt all disputes about land across the country.
By: John Wanyama
Date: October 6th 2016
Source: The Citizen Digital
The Ministry of land has raised a red flag over the rising cases of land grabbing and misuse of private land in the country.
By: Cod Satrusayang
Date: October 3rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the Thai capital on Monday calling on the junta to address land rights and housing needs in what police and organizers said was one of the biggest demonstrations since the May 2014 coup.
