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Consultant needed produce course module on corruption and urban planning with focus on Africa
Application Closing Date - 15 Nov 2015
Job Start Date - As soon as possible
Duration - until 31 May 2016
Location - remote
Transparency International (TI) is a global civil society organisation dedicated to tackling corruption in all its forms. Through more than 100 chapters worldwide and an international secretariat in Berlin, Germany, TI raises awareness of the damaging effects of corruption and works with partners in government, business and civil society to develop and implement effective measures to tackle it.
Latin America has most unequal land distribution, Colombia fares worst - charity
By: Anastasia Moloney
Date: December 01, 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Land distribution in Latin America is the most unequal in the world where only one percent of the farms and estates control more than half of the region's productive land, aid group Oxfam said on Wednesday.
Will #COP21 negotiators tackle land rights issues?
By Michael Igoe
Date: 03 December 2015
So far at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, renewable energy initiatives are stealing the headlines. But as negotiators comb through the details of the expected Paris climate agreement, they will confront a range of challenges — and opportunities — to keep carbon in the ground.
Pre-cooked beans could turn down heat on Africa's dwindling forests
By: Pius Sawa
Date: 16 December 2016
Source:PLACE.TRUST.ORG
"I used to stay away three hours looking for enough wood to cook beans, but now it is easy because I need just a small bundle"
Poverty overarching reason behind land grabbing
By: Staff Correspondent
Date: January 10, 2016
Source: The Daily Star
Observes an ongoing study by a unit of Brac University
Like Hindus many poor Muslims get robbed of their property by influential people across the country, finds an ongoing study.
China: Minister: Rural Collective Property Rights Reform Safeguards Women's Legal Interests
By: Women Voice, Rong Chen
Date: January 5th 2017
Source: Women of China
Two high-ranking officials from China's Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) attended a press briefing on January 3 to explain the nation's latest policies on the reform of collective rural property rights.
Tanzania: In Defence of the Rights of the Poor to Land, Extractives Resources
By: Deodatus Mfugale
Date: February 1st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily News
ANALYSIS
In September 2015, a group comprising eight non-governmental organisations that deal with land rights and extractives resources advocacy submitted to the Human Rights Council, Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism, a review of the United Republic of Tanzania for the period from 2012 to 2015.