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Toledo Maya snag 2015 Equator Prize in land rights
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Dec. 7, 2015–The Maya Leaders Alliance (MLA) and Toledo Alcaldes Association (TAA) today received recognition in Paris, France, as the 2015 recipients of the prestigious Equator Prize in land rights, as part of the Climate Change Conference.
The award was received by MLA spokesperson, Cristina Coc, and MLA chair, Alfonso Cal.
China to allow land transfer under new rural land reforms
By: NT
Date: November 2nd 2016
Source: The Navhind Times
Beijing: China has initiated a new set of land reforms changing the 30-year-old system to permit transfer of land rights to individuals or conglomerates, a politically sensitive move as the Communist country embarked on urban expansion shedding its agrarian past.
‘Land loans’ offer Tanzania’s women entrepreneurs chance to grow
By: Agencies
Date: January 19th 2016
Source: Citizen Digital
Mshindi Mayenga, a hairdresser in the Tanzanian capital, had a vision to expand her business.
She wanted to transform her small salon from a dilapidated rented room into a larger ‘main street’ enterprise, but every time she applied for a bank loan her request was turned down.
South Africa: Expropriation Bill sets out process for property grabbing
By: Jan-Jan Joubert
Date: February 3rd 2016
Source: Times Live
The Expropriation Bill, which will set the rules under which the state can lay claim to urban and rural property, was passed by the parliamentary portfolio committee on public works yesterday.
The ANC voted in favour of the bill. The DA and UDM voted against it, the IFP abstained and the EFF was absent from proceedings.
Land Rights Provide Stability and Security for Women Living with HIV
By: Marian Amissah-Ocran
Date: 1 December 2016
Source: News Deeply
Secure land rights can bolster HIV prevention and provide stability for the estimated 14 million women in sub-Saharan Africa who are living with the disease, writes Marian Amissah-Ocran of Landesa on World AIDS Day.
South Africa: Land dispossession lives on, even a generation after apartheid has ended
By: Leon Louw
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: Business Day Live
WHEN people own their homes they take home tins of paint instead of bottles of brandy. But for many black households a generation after apartheid ended little has changed; they still do not own their homes and kraals. Land dispossession, apartheid’s greatest travesty, lives on.
Prominent Honduran land rights activists report death threats
By: Paola Totaro
Date: 16 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Four high profile Honduran rights activists fighting to protect their ancestral lands in the southwest of the country have received death threats, including a home visit by a man wielding a machete, a monitoring group said on Friday.