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Trinidad and Tobago: Concern over land grabbing in Sangre Grande, Point Fortin
By: Shaliza Hassanali
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Guardian Trinidad and Tobago
In the last eight months, hundreds of squatters have encroached on State lands in the Sangre Grande and Point Fortin areas.
The land grabbing in these two districts has now become a major concern.
Uganda: Football match turns into demonstration against land-grabbing in Lira
Date: August 29th 2016
Source: NTV Uganda
The demonstration began with a football match that was meant to highlight the importance of the pitch to the youth in the northern district.
Uganda: Oil - Bunyoro Demands Support for Women
By: Francis Mugerwa
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor
Hoima — Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom has asked government to initiate affirmative action programmes for women whose livelihoods have been disrupted by oil exploration activities in the oil-rich Albertine Grabben.
Myanmar: The dispossessed
By: Michael Peel
Date: March 1st 2016
Source: Financial Times
Michael Peel reports from Myanmar where the end of dictatorship has unleashed a struggle over land.
1. THE LOST FIELDS
Hla Ohn May still weeps when she takes the road past the twisted white piping of the gas terminal near the western Myanmar town of Kyaukphyu. The 46-year-old farmer and mother of five once owned land on this green strip perched above the blue waters of the Bay of Bengal.
Cambodia sentences four rights activists to six months in prison
By: Phnom Penh newsroom
Date: September 19th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Four women land rights activists were sentenced to six months in prison by a court in Cambodia on Monday for insulting and obstructing public officials during a 2011 violent land rights protest.
Seizure of land for development is a major cause of protests in Cambodia and other countries in the region, including Laos.
Insight: Inside Brazil's battle to save the Amazon with satellites and strike forces
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BRASILIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When George Porto joined Brazil's environment agency 13 years ago, the country didn't have access to satellite data on illegal logging -- let alone heat maps tracking deforestation patterns or gun-toting agents dedicated to stopping ecological crimes.
How times have changed.