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South Africa: New land expropriation law nears completion
By: Jenni Evans
Date: January 26th 2016
Source: News24
Cape Town - A proposed new expropriation law is nearing completion, with MPs putting the final touches to a key element of the government's land reform programme.
Zanzibar women brush up on the law to keep control of land
By: Kizito Makoye
Date: February 4th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
JAMBIANI, Tanzania, Feb 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Zuhura Salim was not entirely sure her family would ever recover a piece of land that her father-in-law seized when her husband died in a fishing accident some 11 years ago.
Cambodia: Indigenous Community’s Collective Land Still in Danger: Report
By: Chea Vannak
Date: February 12th 2016
Source: Khmer Times
The collective land of indigenous communities in Cambodia will continue to face encroachment from economic land concessions and the actions of private companies in the future despite the Cambodian Government’s moratorium on granting ELC licenses, according to a Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) report released yesterday.
Indonesia faces environmental time bomb after coal bust
By: Fergus Jensen
Date: 4 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Thousands of mines are closing in Indonesia's tropical coal belt as prices languish and seams run dry. But almost none of the companies have paid their share of billions of dollars owed to repair the badly scarred landscape they have left behind.
Myanmar: A sound basis for Land Reform
By: Daniel Aguirre
Date: February 19th 2016
Source: Frontier Myanmar
The new National Land Use Policy is a positive step, but its principles need to be enshrined in law to protect the vulnerable from land grabs and forced evictions.
China should let its big cities grow
By: Ming Lu
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: Nikkei Asian Review
Chinese leaders have announced plans to reform the country's household registration, or hukou, system to transform domestic migrant workers into local citizens of the cities where they work and live. Such a policy change would mark a momentous development.