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Australia: Backlog of Aboriginal land claims will take 90 years to clear
By: Michelle Brown
Date: April 3rd 2016
Source: ABC News Australia
Judging by the number of claims that have been made, the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Rights Act is a victim of its own success.
In the past year the number of undetermined land claims has increased to over 29,000. It has been calculated this "land bank" will take 90 years or more to determine.
Mozambique's widows accused of sorcery and robbed of land
By: Ray Mwareya
Date: 5 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Although the law gives men and women equal property rights, the reality is very different in eastern Mozambique, one of the country's poorest regions.
In the Chikwidzire district of Manica province, which borders Zimbabwe, deeply patriarchal cultural traditions stipulate that a woman without sons must cede her land to relatives upon her husband's death.
Brazilian photographer fights to protect remote tribe's rights
By Sophie Davies
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO, April 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar started working with Yanomami people in the Amazon rainforest in the 1970s, most of them did not know what a camera was.
Andujar spent most of that decade and more in northern Brazil photographing the Yanomami, one of Latin America's most remote indigenous tribes.
Urban Land – a Key Building Block to Full Rights
Source: Inter Press Service
Author: Fabiana Frayssinet
MORENO, Argentina, Jul 28 2016 (IPS) - Now that the wind no longer blows her roof off and her house belongs to her, Cristina López feels safe in the shantytown where she lives on the outskirts of the Argentine capital. But she and her neighbours still need to win respect for many more rights they have been denied.
Gaps in Land Policy Could Stall Uganda Pipeline
By: Lizabeth Paulat
Date: April 27th 2016
Source: Voice of America News
KAMPALA, UGANDA—Uganda has just finalized a deal to build a pipeline to Tanzania’s Tanga port, a deal that brings the country a step closer to exploiting its vast oil reserves. But gaps in land governance law could stand in the way.
Nigeria: Minister traces rapid urbanisation to traffic congestion, slums
By: Jeremiah Bako Gyang
Date: August 7th 2016
Source: Today Nigeria
The Minister of Power Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has linked the rising spate of urbanisation currently experienced in the country to traffic congestion, over-crowding ,substandard housing and slum development adding that the challenges are compounded by climate change, insecurity and poverty.
Water-poor Saudi Arabia moves farming venture to drought-stricken California
By: Matt Weiser
Date: May 6th 2016
Source: The Guardian
Almarai, the largest dairy business in Saudi Arabia, has purchased land in California to grow alfalfa for its cattle – and it’s rubbing some people the wrong way