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'Help us upgrade, don't evict us': Sierra Leone's slum dwellers battle for their homes
By: Kieran Guilbert
Date: November 1st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
FREETOWN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When floods struck several slums across Sierra Leone's capital last year, 55-year-old Amienata Bangura was forced to flee as her small shop, stock and years of savings were wiped out.
'Losing our land like losing our lives', Brazil activist tells World Bank
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Investors describe it as one of the last frontiers for major agricultural expansion - a vast area in Brazil's poor northeast that the government is eager to open up to investors hoping to set up big new soy farms and cattle ranches.
Kenya: State House to host land summit
By: Patrick Lang'at
Date: November 14th 2016
Source: Daily Nation
State House on Sunday promised an engaging summit on land, pledging answers on historical injustices as well as the thorny issue of how much land a person can own.
The summit will be held on Monday at State House, Nairobi, the seventh of a series of summits that the Jubilee administration says are to explain its achievements.
New Zealand: Māori complain to UN over land reforms
Date: March 25th 2016
Source: Radio New Zealand
A complaint has been laid with the United Nations about proposed changes to Māori land laws.
Waitangi Tribunal claimants have sent a letter to the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights.
It accuses the government of breaching the Declaration of Rights of Indigenous People in its review of the Te Ture Whenua Māori Act.
Land rights in Chittagong Hill Tracts a far cry
By: Nure Alam Durjoy
Date: December 02, 2016
Source: Dhaka Tribune
Nineteen years after the peace agreement was signed, a clear roadmap for implementing the CHT Accord is still being discussed.
Zimbabwe: 'No Compensation for Farmers Yet'
Date: April 4th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Herald
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa says Government does not have capacity to pay for farm compensations at present but will acknowledge indebtedness over a period of time with the farmers that had their land taken from them during the Land Reform Programme.
Why Zimbabwe has failed to sate the yearning for land and to fix rural hunger
Date: 12 December 2016
Source: The Conversation
Almost 40 years after its independence, land reform remains at the heart of Zimbabwe’s political and economic challenges. But perhaps more than any other issue in Zimbabwe, it has historically been met with inertia from government and the international community.
It takes more than a law to ensure equal land rights for women
By: Astrid Zweynert
Date: April 15th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
OXFORD, England, April 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Laws giving men and women equal rights to land are not enough to ensure equality if they are not accompanied by efforts to empower and educate women, said the head of an organisation working to put the power of the law into people's hands.