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India: Land rights to empower 1900 single women in Mayurbhanj
By: TNN
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Times of India
BALASORE: The Mayurbhanj district administration has handed over land pattas - documents of legal rights - to 1,938 single landless women. The women received legal rights to homestead land at a ceremony on Saturday.
UN experts slam Ecuador over forced closure of land rights group
By: Sebastien Malo
Date: December 30th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations criticized the government of Ecuador on Friday for ordering the closure of a land rights advocacy group that supports an indigenous community protesting mining plans in land they claim as their ancestral home.
India: Chennai loses green space as urbanization goes up: study
By: Trushna Udgirkar
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: Live Mint
Chennai has lost more than one-fifth of its greenery in 20 years as the city urbanized rapidly, according to a study by IISc
Hyderabad: Chennai lost more than one-fifth of its greenery in 20 years as the city urbanized rapidly, a study found.
Patagonia, Black Diamond take on Utah officials over public land rights
Date: 14 January 2017
Source: The Guardian
The outdoor industry is leading the fight to protect America’s public lands from being developed for gas and oil.
"Foreign firms in Zimbabwe have till April 1 to sell shares to blacks or close"
Date: March 23rd 2016
Source: RT.com
Companies owned by foreigners face closure unless they sell or give up 51 percent of their shares to black Zimbabweans by April 1, announced Indigenization Minister Patrick Zhuwao.
“Comply by that date or close shop, comply by that date or face the full wrath of the law,” Bloomberg quotes Zhuwao, who is also President Robert Mugabe’s nephew.
Myanmar Risks Leaving Women Behind
By: Caitlin Pierce
Date: April 4th 2016
Source: The Diplomat
“Now it is more important than ever to include women as true participants in governing Myanmar.”
U.S. Notes Abuses in Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia in Annual Report
By Richard Finney
Source: Radio Free Asia
Harsh restrictions imposed on Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya minority continued during the final year of that country’s rule by a nominally civilian but military-backed party, while government troops acted with impunity in abusing noncombatants in conflict zones, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday in an annual report on human rights practices around the world.