News on Land
Get the latest news on land and property rights, brought to you by trusted sources from across the globe.
NE China Document Protects Rural Women's Rights, Interests on Land Contracts
The Party committee and government in Liaoning Province, northeast China, recently issued a document to steadily promote the implementation of rural collective property right system reform.
The document instructs officials to safeguard rural women's legitimate rights and interests in the process of identifying the membership of collective economic organizations.
Liberia: Senate Fails to Agree with House of Representatives on Passage of Land Rights Act
Save the dates: Online Dialogue on Responsible Large-Scale Agricultural Investment in the Mekong Region, 9-20 October 2017
During the 1990s, a new wave of large-scale land acquisitions for agricultural investments emerged world-wide and in the Mekong region, in particular. Two decades down the road, it is crucial to learn from what has happened in the last two+ decades by:
Land & homes - the keys to ending the cycle of poverty
It is well documented from the work of grass roots, civil society and non-governmental organisations that the women, in Africa, are among the poorest of the poor and their lack of access to land and housing is largely as a result of their limited access to resources. Unemployment and underemployment, particularly for women, and therefore insufficient wages to purchase housing means women have little chance to own their own home. Unfair inheritance and divorce laws also force women into situations of hardship and homelessness.
Maya indigenous groups implement land registry
Government does not comply with court order to identify and protect indigenous ancestral lands.
|
Cambodia: Villagers protest over land disputes
About 200 people from Kampot and Kandal provinces gathered yesterday at the Land Ministry asking for two separate disputes with development companies to be resolved.
The protesters asked the ministry to take land from the companies for them to us because they were struggling to make a living.
Bo Sambath, a representative of 308 families from Techo Angkanh and Techo Chrey Bak villages in Kampot province, said their dispute over 1,231 hectares with First Bio-Tech Agricultural (Cambodia) began in 2013.
South Africa: Zulu king lashes out at land reform recipients
Colombian peace doomed if Human Rights Defenders not protected
Pakistan: Can land finance its own development?
Investment in urban infrastructure such as new roads, public utilities or parks invariably increases real-estate prices. In Pakistan, stories of riches earned overnight due to new highways passing through agricultural lands are common.
"All personal laws in India are discriminatory"
Morning Briefing: could land reform help solve housing crisis?
Cambodian Villagers Protest Decade-Old Land Grab Case in Koh Kong Province
About 100 villagers from southwestern Cambodia’s Koh Kong province clashed on Tuesday with security forces in Phnom Penh during a protest over a decade-long land dispute with two sugar companies, a spokesmen for the residents said.
The villagers travelled from Chikhor commune in Sre Ambel district and from Botum Sakor district in Koh Kong to the country’s capital to protest what they called land grabs by the Koh Kong Sugar Industry Company Ltd. and Koh Kong Plantation Company Ltd. that took place in 2006, said Phav Nheung, representing the villagers.