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China land: Losing the plot
Date: 7 July 2016
Source: Today
Fraught land policy based on collective ownership puts rural life at a crossroads
BEIJING — Among communist China’s holy pilgrimage sites, Xiaogang Village stands out. The tiny place is a living shrine to villagers who defied the party to dismantle disastrous communal farms that left more than 30 million dead from hunger during Mao Zedong’s reign.
Chikwawa women bemoan increased land, property grabbing issues to GBV
Source:Malawi News Agency
Written By: Steve Chirombo
Chikwawa, December 22: Women in Chikwawa have complained with the increased behaviour by some people and more especially politicians who grab their land leaving them landless through the use of outdated cultural practices and political power.
Land Rights Now Initiative Supports Civil Society Opposition to Afforestation Bill in India
Source: Land Rights Now Campaign
As India’s upper house is currently debating a controversial afforestation bill, civil society groups across the country are expressing concerns that the bill would do more harm than good.
The land grabbers of the Nacala Corridor
Peasants in northern Mozambique are struggling to keep their lands, as governments and foreign companies move aggressively to set up large-scale agribusiness projects. They are being told that these projects will bring them benefits. But, so far, the country's experience with foreign investment in agriculture has been disastrous.
Indigenous peoples of Peru unite to denounce imminent legal reforms that threaten land rights
In a statement published in a national newspaper, the council of AIDESEP, which represents over 1800 communities in the Peruvian Amazon called for the repeal and shelving of recent legal reforms being pushed through Peru’s parliament that threaten to further weaken indigenous peoples’ rights to land in favour of development projects. They also announced that they will file a formal complaint to the Inter American Development Bank’s (IDB) complaint mechanism if promised changes to a nationwide land titling programme remain undelivered.
Australia: Thousands commemorate Wave Hill walk-off, birth of Indigenous land rights battle
By: Helen Davidson
Date: August 19th 2016
Source: The Guardian
Freedom Day festival celebrates August 1966 strike that kicked off a tradition of Indigenous Australian protest – one that continues at the festival itself
Thousands flocked to the remote Aboriginal community of Kalkarindji on Friday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Wave Hill walk-off.