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African Women Meet At Mount Kilimanjaro to Demand Rights
By: Jean d'Amour Mbonyinshuti
Date: October 12th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The New Times
Rwandan rural women, together with their counterparts from various countries on the continent, will today convene at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in an effort to advocate for unrestricted women's rights to land and other natural resources across the continent.
INTERVIEW - Chaotic urbanisation puts cities in harm's way: UN
By: Megan Rowling
Date: May 26th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
The risk of disasters hitting fast-growing cities is rising, so what are governments doing to protect residents?
IGAD Advances Implementation of AU Declaration on Land
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Land Policy Initiative (IGAD LPI) Project, in collaboration with the Land Policy Initiative (LPI) of the African Union and with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), this morning opened a one-day validation workshop on the Mapping of Research and Training Institutions and Country Profiles on the Status of Land Governance in IGAD Member States in Nairobi.
Namibia introduces bill to ban foreign ownership of land
Date: November 14th 2016
Source: Africa News Agency
GABORONE – The Namibian government has tabled a new land ownership bill that seeks to bar foreigners from owning agricultural, commercial and communal lands.
No law and order: The growing massacre over Brazilian land rights
Source: Fusion
Author: Eva Hershaw
BRASILIA, Brazil—Two years ago, after he received his first death threat from a neighboring farmer, Reinile Alves do Santos told his 13-year old that he was no longer allowed to play soccer in the streets of Claro, a quilombola community in the state of Tocantins, Brazil. He moved him to a different school, and prohibited him from going out alone.
“It is one thing for me to be threatened,” Santos said. “But I don’t want this man anywhere near my wife or son—I don’t want them to be visible to him.”
Kenyans sound alarm over election threat to public land
By: Katy Migiro
Date: December 29, 2016
Source:Thomson Reuters Foundation
NAIROBI, Nov 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As Kenya counts down to elections in 2017, public schools and hospitals should map their boundaries, fence them and get title deeds to protect them from irregular acquisition by politicians seeking re-election, experts and campaigners said on Tuesday.
Au Cambodge, les conflits fonciers n’inquiètent pas le pouvoir
Tout au long des 30 km qui séparent leur village de Kampong Chhnang, les manifestants font connaître leurs revendications en chantant des slogans.
Children paying price in land rights fight
‘I do not want to be a monk,’ says boy forced to live in a pagoda after his single mother lost her land in dispute with company
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