By: Joe Bavier
Date: 19 September 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Rights groups have accused Ivory Coast authorities of failing to provide a minimum level of support when they evicted tens of thousands of illegal cocoa farmers from a national park, leaving them vulnerable and putting pressure on local communities.
The government rejected the criticism on Friday.
Date: 20 September 2016
Source: RFA
A court in Hanoi sentenced a land rights activist to nearly two years in prison on Tuesday for her role in protesting government-sanctioned evictions that are being used to clear the way for commercial real estate developments in Vietnam.
By:Mu Sochua
Date:20 September 2016
Source: Borderless
Monday’ sentencing of four women land rights activists by a Phnom Penh Court does not bode well for the Cambodian government, which is already being closely eyed by the international community for its ongoing politically motivated crackdowns against critics and political opponents.
Date: 19 September 2016
Source: KHMER TIMES
City Hall said villagers affected by the development project of the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district would have two months to claim the certificate of land policy before it would stop assuming responsibility for losses, according to a statement released yesterday.
By: Mitra Taj
Date: 16 September 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Peru's new environment minister said on Wednesday the government of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski would focus on preventing pollution rather than fining companies after the fact, part of a more collaborative stance she described for the private sector.
By: Luke Bisani
Date: 18 September 2016
Source: Malawi24
Women across Africa have been mobilised to call on leaders on the continent to address land rights issues as one way of achieving sustainable development.
The call comes at time when women in rural areas of Africa are seen as having no piece of land, a development that has brought hiccups on food production on the continent.
By Ebun Sessou & Damilola Olabiyisi
Date: September 16th 2016
Source: Vanguard
What is the significance of the land grabbing law?
