| Land Portal

local communities

Synonyms: 
community
communities
local community

Local community is a traditional collectivity with a range of powers covering a certain geographical area and an autonomous management structure.

Displaying 1001 - 1010 of 1113
Reports & Research
October 2000
Myanmar

...Under military control, rural Burma's subsistence farming village is losing its viability as the basic unit of society. Internally displaced people are usually thought to have fled military battles in and around their villages, but this paradigm doesn't apply to Burma.

Reports & Research
October 2000
Myanmar

The worsening situation of the internally displaced in all northern Karen districts, forced labour and convict porters, rice quotas, the desperate situation of rank-and-file SPDC soldiers, forced repatriation of refugees in Thailand, and the SPDC's persistence in denying that there is any problem whatsoever.

Reports & Research
October 2000
Myanmar

Roads, Relocations, and the Campaign for Control in Toungoo District.

Reports & Research
April 2000
Myanmar

Three Western oil companies -- Total, Premier and Unocal -- bent on exploiting natural gas , entered partnerships with the brutal Burmese military regime. Since the early 1990's, a terrible drama has been unfolding in Burma.

Reports & Research
April 2000
Myanmar

Continued Forced Relocations and Displacement in Shan State. "This report aims to provide a picture of the current situation in central Shan State, where the military junta ruling Burma has forcibly uprooted and destroyed over 1,400 villages and displaced well over 300,000 people since 1996.

Share this page