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  1. Library Resource
    Webinar Report: Land in Post-Conflict Settings
    Reports & Research
    June, 2019
    Uganda, Myanmar, Global

    Post-war societies not only have to deal with continuing unpeaceful relations but also land-related conflict legacies, farmland and forest degradation, heavily exploited natural resources, land mines, a destroyed infrastructure, as well as returning refugees and ex-combatants. In the aftermath of war, access to and control of land often remains a sensitive issue which may precipitate tensions and lead to a renewed destabilization of volatile post-conflict situations.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2005
    Global

    At its fifty-sixth session the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human
    Rights, in its resolution 2004/2, welcomed the progress report of the Special Rapporteur and
    requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to circulate
    the draft principles on housing and property restitution for refugees and displaced persons
    contained therein widely among non-governmental organizations, Governments, specialized
    agencies and other interested parties for comment, and requested the Special Rapporteur to take

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Colombia

    El autor propone una revisión sobre las causas estructurales del fenómeno de desplazamiento forzado superando la mirada nacional y en rigor el nacionalismo metodológico que en el caso colombiano, explica como causa intestina del desplazamiento forzado: el conflicto armado interno colombiano. Dicha lectura alimenta la construcción normativa jurídica y de las políticas que enfrentan el fenómeno, se describe en este contexto el papel que juegan actores globales y locales.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Colombia

    La investigación analiza diversas experiencias de reterritorialización de un grupo de personas en situación de desarraigo ubicadas actualmente en el Departamento del Atlántico. El texto comienza con una exposición sobre la metodología utilizada, para continuar, a partir de entrevistas en profundidad, con una reflexión sobre la relación entre memoria y territorio.

  5. Library Resource
    Human Rights Watch

    Desocupações Forçadas e Insegurança da Posse da Terra para os Pobres da Cidade de Luanda

    Reports & Research
    May, 2007
    Africa, Angola
    Em Luanda, capital de Angola, o Governo despejou coercivamente e de forma violenta milhares de pessoas que viviam em áreas habitacionais informais com pouco ou nenhum aviso prévio. Em violação das próprias leis de Angola e das suas obrigações internacionais de direitos humanos, o Governo destruiu casas, culturas e bens pessoais dos moradores sem um processo justo e raramente concedeu indemnização.
     
  6. Library Resource
    Alice Moura

    uma intervenção estatal no Loteamento São Francisco

    Reports & Research
    August, 2016
    South America, Brazil

    O objetivo desta dissertação é compreender os significados atribuídos à moradia pelas famílias do bairro Loteamento São Francisco, no município de Camaragibe –PE, que tiveram suas casas demolidas por causa do grande projeto de investimento associado à realização da Copa do Mundo de 2014.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2004
    Africa

    Covers (1) Land as a source of conflict in Africa – the multi-dimensional nature of land issues; indirect causes of conflict, land access and structural poverty; interactions between customary and state-managed tenure systems; historical injustices and land disputes. (2) Land rights during conflict – population displacement; land as a sustaining factor in conflict; land rights of women, children and marginalized communities.

  8. Library Resource

    A SURVEY OF IDP RETURN AND RESETTLEMENT ISSUES AND LESSON: ACHOLI AND LANGO REGIONS

    Reports & Research
    February, 2008
    Uganda

    This is the second in a series of land studies for northern Uganda, whose core objective is to inform the Plan for Recovery and Development of Northern Uganda (PRDP) and the National Land Policy. It builds on the work of the first phase conducted in Teso region to present a more quantitative analysis of trends on disputes and claims on land before displacement, during displacement and emerging trends or occurrences on return for Acholi and Lango sub-regions.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2006
    Colombia

    Forced displacement in Colombia is primarily a way to seize agricultural land from peasants and small farmers, and only to a lesser degree the unintended consequence of fighting between warring parties. (...)


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  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2006
    Kenya

    Internal displacement in Kenya is a complex and multi-faceted social problem that revolves around and reflects unresolved issues of land and property, as well as the struggle for the control of political and economic resources. (...)


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