Bangladesh: Indigenous peoples' fight for human rights
By: Shihab Sarkar
Date: August 11th 2016
Source: The Financial Express
Nepal's tenant farmers find hope as they claim land of their own
By: Rina Chandran
Date: August 11th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Gyalgen Lama was a third-generation tenant farmer in Nepal's Sindhupalchok district, eking out a living from growing millet on a small piece of land that he could only dream of owning.
That is until a land rights group helped to make his dream a reality.
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South Africa: Farmers suggest new model in land reform
By: Teboho.Setena
Date: August 10th 2016
Source: News24
THE African Farmers Association of South Africa (Afasa) in the Free State has called for a second model to the land reform programme to complement the existing Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy (Plas) programme.
The body strongly maintains such a move will expedite the current land reform process and also save government money in the process.
Liberia is at a crossroads: recognising land rights can safeguard against violence
By: Jennifer Duncan and Jaron Vogelsang
Date: August 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Civil society groups say failure to pass land reform could plunge the country into violence
Land rights: targets, expectations and tools for businesses
By: Clelia Daniel
Date: August 10th 2016
Source: CSR Asia
India: Land-grabbing cases on the rise in city outskirts
By: Siva G|
Date: August 11th 2016
Source: Times of India
VISAKHAPATNAM: Police bosses are busy chalking out various plans and proposals to address the litigation cases pertaining to land and land grabbing at Madhurawada and other areas. According to sources, the police department's previous attempt with a DSP rank officer as sub-division chief yielded little results.
Bangladesh: 'Recognise ethnic minorities as indigenous people'
By: Star Country Desk
Date: August 10th 2016
Source: The Daily Star
Ethnic minorities in Bangladesh observed the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples yesterday with a call for recognising them as indigenous people in the constitution.
Speakers at the programmes in different districts urged the government to ensure their education, health, land and social rights.
U.S., Australia, Canada indigenous land rights laws lag Africa, Latam: mapping study
By: Paola Totaro
Date: August 9th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
The seven lowest scoring nations across all 10 indicators were in the Middle East including Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen
Nepal quake impact on single women underlines need for equal land rights: activist
By: Rina Chandran
Date: August 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Last year's twin earthquakes in Nepal disproportionately affected single women, underlining the need for equal land ownership to increase their resilience in disasters, a women's rights activist has said.