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Rights abuses discovered in Philippine mining town
By: Joe Torres and Mark Saludes
Date: February 29th 2016
Source: UCA News
Study also shows worsened health conditions of residents due to nickel mine
A fact-finding mission launched by church and environmental groups in late February discovered "police brutality and land grabbing" were committed in a mining town north of Manila.
Climate change in Somaliland — ‘you can touch it’
Self-declared state wants to shift much of its population to the coast as grazing land fails
It is often said that climate change will hurt the world’s poorest people first. Nowhere is that potentially truer than in Somaliland, an unrecognised state in the Horn of Africa sandwiched between an expanding desert and the Red Sea.
A prolonged drought has killed 70 per cent of the area’s livestock in the past three years, devastating the region’s pastoralist economy and forcing tens of thousands of families to flee their grazing land for urban camps, according to authorities.
India: Land rights to empower 1900 single women in Mayurbhanj
By: TNN
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Times of India
BALASORE: The Mayurbhanj district administration has handed over land pattas - documents of legal rights - to 1,938 single landless women. The women received legal rights to homestead land at a ceremony on Saturday.
India: Chennai loses green space as urbanization goes up: study
By: Trushna Udgirkar
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: Live Mint
Chennai has lost more than one-fifth of its greenery in 20 years as the city urbanized rapidly, according to a study by IISc
Hyderabad: Chennai lost more than one-fifth of its greenery in 20 years as the city urbanized rapidly, a study found.
"Foreign firms in Zimbabwe have till April 1 to sell shares to blacks or close"
Date: March 23rd 2016
Source: RT.com
Companies owned by foreigners face closure unless they sell or give up 51 percent of their shares to black Zimbabweans by April 1, announced Indigenization Minister Patrick Zhuwao.
“Comply by that date or close shop, comply by that date or face the full wrath of the law,” Bloomberg quotes Zhuwao, who is also President Robert Mugabe’s nephew.
Families in southern Sierra Leone sue to recover land from agriculture companies
Landowning families in Imperi and Jong Chiefdoms, Bonthe District in southern Sierra Leone have commenced legal action in the country’s High Court against African Lion Agriculture Limited (ALA) and Carmanor (SL) Limited to recover possession of around 2303 acres of land. The parcels of land are spread across Nyadehun, Tessor, Niangoihun, Bandajuma, Matakan, MoCharles, Gbaniga and Shenge villages. The writ issued on 7th July 2016 also seeks the payment of rent arrears dating back to April 2014 and damages for trespass, among other reliefs.
Myanmar Risks Leaving Women Behind
By: Caitlin Pierce
Date: April 4th 2016
Source: The Diplomat
“Now it is more important than ever to include women as true participants in governing Myanmar.”