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HABITAT III: UN conference to set new urban development agenda creating sustainable, equitable cities for all

14 October 2016 – A major global conference, aiming to set a ‘New Urban Agenda,’ which, in the words of the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, will “help us to rethink how we plan, manage and live in cities,” begins this weekend, in the Ecuadorian capital, Quito.

FACTBOX-Best and worst countries in Africa for women's land rights

By: Katy Migiro

Date: October 13th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation


A group of women is to climb to the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro to call on African governments to improve female access to and control over land


NAIROBI, Oct 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of women from more than 20 African countries are meeting in Tanzania to write a charter of demands to improve their access to and control over land.


Cultivating a Different Future for Rural Women in Argentina

By: Fabiana Frayssinet

Date: October 13th 2016

Source: IPS News


EL PATO, Argentina, Oct 13 2016 (IPS) - Her seven children have grown up, but she now takes care of a young grandson while working in her organic vegetable garden in El Pato, south of the city of Buenos Aires. Olga Campos wants for them what she wasn’t able to achieve: an education to forge a different future.


Liberia: Concessions Violate Women's Rights

Date: October 12th 2016

Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Observer


A research report released in Monrovia over the weekend by Natural Resources Women's Platform (NRWP), the Alliance for Rural Democracy (ARD), and Green Advocates International (GAI) with support from US based Rights and Resources Initiatives (RRI), unearthed how foreign direct investment deprives local women of the land rights that form the basis for their livelihoods and cultures despite promises of shared economic development.

12 farmers fighting for land reform arrested in Philippines

By: Barbara Mae Dacanay

Date: October 12th 2016

Source: The Gulf News


Manila: Twelve farmers fighting for land reform were arrested and have remained in prison based on a complaint of a landlord in central Philippines at the start of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte who has revived peace talks with the 48-year-old Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), a rights leader said.


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