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Inheritance Rights of Children in Sri Lanka

Reports & Research
December, 2008
Sri Lanka
Land & Gender
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
post-conflict settings
land inheritance rights
conflicts
land rights
displacement
housing rights
women
ABSTRACTED FROM INTRODUCTION:

This report provides an in depth analysis of the inheritance rights of children in Sri Lanka. Chapter 2 looks at inheritance rights of children from a human rights perspective. It examines the international human rights instruments which guarantee the right to adequate housing of children and which aim to protect their inheritance rights. It analyses the essential components of the right to adequate housing and looks at Sri Lanka’s obligations to protect and promote these rights.
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Equator Initiative Case Studies. Philippines. Camalandaan Agroforestry Farmers’ Association (CAFA) (Tagalog)

Local sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities

Reports & Research
December, 2008
Philippines
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land rights
land tenure
tenure security
Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practitioners themselves guiding the narrative. The Equator Initiative aims to fill that gap.
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Equator Initiative Case Studies. Indonesia. Yayasan Pengelolaan Lokal Kawasan Laut (Community-based Marine Management Foundation) (English)

Local sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities

Reports & Research
December, 2008
Indonesia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land rights
land tenure
tenure security
Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practitioners themselves guiding the narrative. The Equator Initiative aims to fill that gap.
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Equator Initiative Case Studies. Indonesia. Yayasan Pengelolaan Lokal Kawasan Laut (Community-based Marine Management Foundation) (Bahasa Indonesia)

Local sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities

Reports & Research
December, 2008
Indonesia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land rights
land tenure
tenure security
Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practitioners themselves guiding the narrative. The Equator Initiative aims to fill that gap.
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Equator Initiative Case Studies. Philippines. Camalandaan Agroforestry Farmers’ Association (CAFA) (English)

Local sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities

Reports & Research
December, 2008
Philippines
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land rights
land tenure
tenure security
Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practitioners themselves guiding the narrative. The Equator Initiative aims to fill that gap.
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Agricultural Development in Uzbekistan: The Effect of Ongoing Reforms

Reports & Research
December, 2008
Uzbekistan
land reform
agrarian reform
farmland
agricultural land management
farming systems
agriculture
farm tenancy
farmers
Agricultural transition in Uzbekistan, as in all CIS countries, is driven by a process of land reform, which involves redistribution of land among producers and concomitant changes in farm structure. In this article we review the process of land reform since Uzbekistan’s independence and examine its impacts on agricultural growth and rural family incomes. The analysis is based on official statistics and data from a farm-level survey carried out in 2007.
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Land Rights, Mining and Resistance: New Struggles on Mongolia’s Pastoral Commons

Conference Papers & Reports
July, 2008
Mongolia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land governance
land reform
pastoral lands
mining
natural resources
land rights
land tenure
community land rights
pastoral land rights
pastoralists
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and agricultural decollectivisation, post-socialist rural contexts have afforded commons scholars particularly fertile ground for examination of institutional change and evolution under new modes of governance. In Mongolia, as elsewhere, such transformations have been characterised by the erosion of state influence and de jure and/or de facto devolution of land and resource rights.
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Issues in Ownership of Real Estate Sri Lanka

Reports & Research
December, 2008
Sri Lanka
Land & Investments
land administration
land titling
land law
property law
land management
land investments
land tax
land ownership
The report answers the following questions:

1. Is perpetual fee simple ownership of real property permitted? If not, what are the principal forms of ownership, or other principal form of ownership, of real property?

2. What instruments are used to convey fee simple ownership, or other principal form of ownership, of real estate?

3. How in this jurisdiction is the ownership of real property recorded or searched? Who generally performs the search?
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Women's Right to Land: Voices from Grassroots Movement and Working Women's Alliance from Gujarat

Reports & Research
March, 2008
India, Central Asia, Southern Asia
Land & Gender
land
land rights
women
Studies have shown that a key factor associated with rural poverty is access to land. Yet in many parts of India there remains a huge gender gap in land ownership and control - with significant implications for women's economic and social status.
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DESENVOLVIMENTO RURAL, MULHERES E TERRA

UM OLHAR SOBRE TIMOR-LESTE

Reports & Research
July, 2008
Timor-Leste
Land & Gender
collective ownership
common lands
gender equity in access to land
land access
land area
land rights
legal empowerment
natural resources management
right of access
rural areas
rural development
O caminho percorrido para que as questões do género e do desenvolvimento e em especial a sua interligação sejam assuntos importantes e alvo de atenção tanto académica como política, foi longo. Várias áreas do conhecimento, como a sociologia, a antropologia e a economia, contribuem para a construção do conhecimento neste domínio, a par de outras mais recentes como os estudos feministas e os estudos póscoloniais. Como resultado, as teorias e os conceitos sobre a relação das mulheres com o desenvolvimento e os efeitos deste sobre as mulheres têm sido vários.