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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    May, 2016
    South-Eastern Asia

    Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is an issue of concern to governments, organized civil society groups, as well as business actors in the Mekong region. EIA and related forms of environmental assessments are being carried out throughout the region with varying levels of quality, legal frameworks, monitoring and compliance.

  2. Library Resource
    Multimedia
    May, 2023
    Ethiopia, Uganda, Laos

    A large share of the world's rural population depends on using land to feed themselves. Commercial agriculture and forestry investments are placing growing pressure on land as a resource. Especially when state capacities to steer and monitor land-based investments are low, this can lead to increasing pressure on natural resources, land-use conflicts and in the worst cases to forced expropriation and displacement. These factors can have a negative impact on livelihood and food security in rural areas, particularly when land rights are insecure.

  3. Library Resource
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    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2002
    Philippines

    This article summarizes the nature of land-related conflicts in the Philippines within the context of the prevailing agrarian situation throughout the country. An analysis of the agrarian institutions and different types of development that have occurred in a number of regions provide a broad representation of the current situation.

  4. Library Resource
    mainstreaming governance - philippines-fao
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    February, 2019
    Philippines

    Land-based sectors in the Philippines are affected by institutional

    weaknesses in various ways, including overlapping and conflicting

    policies, laws and programmes, a lack of reform in public land

    management and inadequate funding for urban development, disaster

    mitigation and climate change. Land governance has thus been given

    paramount importance in recent years. However, security of tenure

    for all remains a challenge as the existing institutional set-up fails

  5. Library Resource
    Land-Conflicts-issue-brief
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    February, 2020
    Philippines

    Concerns over food insecurity in developing countries are reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture by 2030. Given that land plays an important role in the livelihoods of most people in developing countries, food security and poverty reduction cannot be achieved unless issues of access to land, security of tenure, and the capacity to use land productively and in a sustainable manner are addressed.

  6. Library Resource
    Anti-Squatting Law Repeal Act
    Legislation & Policies
    August, 1997
    Philippines

    SEC. 1. Title. — This Act shall be known as the "Anti-Squatting Law Repeal
    Act of 1997."
    SEC. 2. Repeal. — Presidential Decree No. 772, entitled "Penalizing
    Squatting and Other Similar Acts" is hereby repealed.
    SEC. 3. Effect on pending cases. — All pending cases under the provisions
    of Presidential Decree No. 772 shall be dismissed upon the effectivity of this
    Act.
    SEC. 4. Effect on Republic Act No. 7279. — Nothing herein shall be
    construed to nullify, eliminate or diminish in any way Section 27 of Republic

  7. Library Resource
    review of selected land law

    Discussion Paper in the context of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure (VGGT)

    Reports & Research
    October, 2014
    Philippines

    This discussion paper on the “VGGT and National Policies on the Governance of Tenure”3

     has

    been commissioned by the Asian NGO Coalition (ANGOC) as a member of the Philippine

    Development Forum – Working Group on Sustainable Rural Development (PDF-SRD).4 This

    paper examines national policies as embodied in the 1987 Philippine Constitution and the

    major land and natural resource laws passed by the Philippine legislature. This research is

  8. Library Resource
    Mekong Land Research Forum: Annual country reviews 2020-21
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    February, 2021
    South-Eastern Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam

    The Annual Country Reviews reflect upon current land relations in the Mekong Region, and has been produced for researchers, practitioners and policy advocates operating in the field. Specialists have been selected from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam to briefly answer the following two questions:

  9. Library Resource
    Realising women’s human rights in Malaysia : the EMPOWER report

    the EMPOWER report

    Peer-reviewed publication
    April, 2015
    Malaysia

    Why do activist groups representing some of society’s most marginalized employ legalistic forms of ‘rights talk’ when the reality of securing rights via the judicial system is almost unimaginable? The article considers this question in relation to the work of the Malaysian non-governmental organisation (NGO) EMPOWER who, in 2011, produced the Malaysian Women’s Human Rights Report focusing attention on the rights of informal sector workers, refugees, sexual minorities and women’s rights under non-Islamic family law.

  10. Library Resource
    Property and Sovereignty: Legal and Cultural Perspectives
    Journal Articles & Books
    May, 2013
    Timor-Leste

    Discusses sovereignty from a range of perspectives, exploring both political and owner sovereignty. Covers a wide range of topics related to property rights, which will be of interest to those studying legal philosophy, property theory, international and comparative law, and political sociology.

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