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FULL-TIME JOB VACANCY RESEARCHER ON WOMEN AND LAND
The Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) is seeking highly-qualified applicants for the position of Researcher on Women and Land. This position will be responsible for developing and implementing a research and advocacy agenda focusing on the impacts of large-scale international land acquisitions on women’s human rights in Africa and Asia. This position reports to the Deputy Director of the Women’s Rights Division. The position will ideally be based in Africa or Asia.
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Indonesian slum dwellers challenge eviction law in landmark case
By: Beh Lih Yi
Date: September 30th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
JAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Slum dwellers in Indonesia have launched a landmark legal case to challenge a decades-old law which has been used to forcibly remove thousands of families, amid a wave of evictions in the country's capital.
Can big brands like Nestlé really play a role in halting land disputes?
Businesses need to start seeing communities as legitimate counterparts if we are to stand a chance of slowing down conflicts over land
Globally, over 70% of land lacks clear registration or is subject to ownership disputes. This phenomenon directly increases the vulnerability of the world’s poorest, as development agencies such as the World Bank now widely recognise.
Guatemala’s indigenous people are at risk of losing their land
By: Esther Yu Hsi Lee
Date: October 10th 2016
Source: ThinkProgress
About 60 percent of the country’s population is comprised of indigenous people.
Lack of local land rights harms fight against poverty, climate change-researchers
By: Megan Rowling
BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous people and local communities lack legal rights to almost three quarters of their traditional lands, sparking social conflict and undermining international plans to curb poverty, hunger and climate change, researchers said.
China to allow land transfer under new rural land reforms
By: NT
Date: November 2nd 2016
Source: The Navhind Times
Beijing: China has initiated a new set of land reforms changing the 30-year-old system to permit transfer of land rights to individuals or conglomerates, a politically sensitive move as the Communist country embarked on urban expansion shedding its agrarian past.
Tanzania's Maasai in court to reclaim grazing land from US safari company
Maasai herders used to fighting to survive on the savannah have moved to a new battleground - a Tanzanian court - in a case highlighting increasing conflict in Africa between traditional culture and foreigners investing in land.
The Maasai, a semi-nomadic people known for dressing in distinctive red blankets and colourful beads, say they are trying to reclaim 12,617 acres of grazing land in northern Tanzania from a US safari company.
Namibia: Depleted land reform fund culled resettlement
Date: November 11th 2016
Source: The Economist Namibia
Resettled farmers cannot access the loan facility fund offered by Government and Agribank as part of land reform attempts by the Ministry of Land Reform.