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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2008
    Argentina

    El presente trabajo analiza las situaciones problemáticas de tenencia de la tierra, particularmente las que afectan a la pequeña producción familiar. Partiendo del estudio realizado por PROINDER en base a la información del Censo Nacional Agropecuario de 1988, se presentan los cambios de tenencia y estructura de la tierra a nivel nacional incorporando los datos del Censo Nacional Agropecuario 2002. En segundo lugar se realiza una actualización de la información sobre las situaciones problemáticas de tenencia de la tierra identificadas en el trabajo anterior.

  2. Library Resource
    Inheritance Rights of Children Sri Lanka
    Reports & Research
    December, 2008
    Sri Lanka

    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.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2008
    South-Eastern Asia

    Illegal logging and its associated trade remains a serious threat to forests and people in Southeast Asia. However, despite having caught the attention of the international community more than a decade ago, the illegal timber trade still accounts for a significant portion of wood and wood products from this region.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2008
    Global, South-Eastern Asia

    Forest-based conflict is one of the major global challenges for the international forestry agenda together with poverty, climate change, conservation, and biofuels. In this paper, we will estimate the scope of the problem for people and forests, identify the role of forest rights and tenure as part of the cause of and solution to conflict, and project future challenges.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2008
    Africa

    Contains an overview and thematic notes on gendered access to land and property; legal reforms and women’s property rights; land dispute resolution; gender-responsive titling; case studies from Nepal and Honduras; further reading.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2008
    Kenya, Africa

    ODI’s Humanitarian Policy Group held an event to explore the role that land issues have played in the current crisis in Kenya. The HPG Policy Brief released to coincide with the event argues that it is essential that humanitarian actors understand land issues as they seek to assist displaced populations and facilitate the process of return or resettlement.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2008
    Africa

    Includes the return process, public knowledge of land rights, land conflicts and dispute resolution, post-conflict vulnerable group issues, performance of land administration institutions, recommendations. Finds the issue of return not adequately dealt with in the NLP. 92% have returned in Lango, but only 5% in Acholi.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2008
    Africa

    In many parts of Africa, legal services organisations have developed innovative ways for using legal processes to help disadvantaged groups have more secure land rights. Their approaches, tools and methods vary widely – from legal literacy training to paralegals programmes, from participatory methodologies to help local groups register their lands or negotiate with government or the private sector through to legal representation and strategic use of public interest litigation.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2008
    Africa

    Report is in 3 parts: literature review findings, field study findings, recommendations. Divided into land justice and family justice and concludes by defining strategic interventions for the Justice, Law and Order Sector. Finds a dominant preference for disputes to be resolved at the lowest level possible, that lack of legal aid remains a big hindrance to access to justice, and that the conflict-affected districts of Lango, Acholi, Karamoja and Teso deserve special attention as a matter of urgency to resolve emerging land disputes and conflicts.

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2008
    Myanmar

    Critics dismiss Asean plan for free movement of labor...

    "DESPITE the high-minded ideals of the Asean Vision 2020 plan launched more than a decade ago by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), cynics continue to dismiss its aim of labor mobility in a “community of caring societies” as just so much humbug.

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