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Malawi: Women's Land Ownership Violation Continues in Nsanje
A women's group fighting for women’s rights in Nsanje has decried continued violation of women’s rights to own land.
Kuchene Women Forum Director, Gertrude Kalosi said the district’s cultural norm which gives men more power over property such as land is compromising efforts to ensure that women equally enjoy their right to own land like men.
Indonesia faces environmental time bomb after coal bust
By: Fergus Jensen
Date: 4 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Thousands of mines are closing in Indonesia's tropical coal belt as prices languish and seams run dry. But almost none of the companies have paid their share of billions of dollars owed to repair the badly scarred landscape they have left behind.
Malaysia land rights activist murder suspects charged in court
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Author: Beh Lih Yi
JAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two men were charged in a Malaysian court on Friday over the killing of an indigenous land rights defender, in a case which has cast a spotlight on tribespeople's decades-long struggle for recognition.
South Africa: New land expropriation law nears completion
By: Jenni Evans
Date: January 26th 2016
Source: News24
Cape Town - A proposed new expropriation law is nearing completion, with MPs putting the final touches to a key element of the government's land reform programme.
Ethiopia: Land Reproaching to Solve Landlessness
By: Girmachew Gashaw
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Ethiopian Herald
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Farmers summit towards solving landlessness