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Put land in the hands of women for economic transformation – A call for policy makers

Date: 10 July 2016


Source: UNECA


Kigali, 10 July 2016 (ECA) – On the eve of the Kigali 27th African Union Summit, Land Policy Initiative (LPI) - an initiative of the African Union Commission (AUC), Economic Commission (ECA) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) - launched a campaign aiming at documented allocation of 30 percent of land to African Women by 2025.


Mozambique's widows accused of sorcery and robbed of land

By: Ray Mwareya


Date: 5 July 2016


Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation


Although the law gives men and women equal property rights, the reality is very different in eastern Mozambique, one of the country's poorest regions.


In the Chikwidzire district of Manica province, which borders Zimbabwe, deeply patriarchal cultural traditions stipulate that a woman without sons must cede her land to relatives upon her husband's death.

Land Rights Win: Alaska Native Tribes Win Right to Place Lands Into Trust, Enhance Safety


Date: 05 July 2016

Source: Indian Country


Alaska Native communities have a bit more control over their land thanks to a July 1 ruling in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that affirms their ability to place lands into federal trust, just as other tribes can, in what Alaska tribes are calling a landmark ruling.


More than land rights, the ruling enables Alaska Native governments to regulate alcohol and take other measures to protect members’ health and safety.

China land: Losing the plot

Date: 7 July 2016


Source: Today


Fraught land policy based on collective ownership puts rural life at a crossroads


BEIJING — Among communist China’s holy pilgrimage sites, Xiaogang Village stands out. The tiny place is a living shrine to villagers who defied the party to dismantle disastrous communal farms that left more than 30 million dead from hunger during Mao Zedong’s reign.


Forest dwellers turn paralegals to keep ancestral land

By: Sophie Mbugua

Source: BRACED

 

SESIMWANI, Kenya – Birds sing, feet shuffle, as women and men of all ages emerge from spreading canopies of green.

Dressed in gumboots and carrying umbrellas, they hurry towards the Olodomut Nursery School in Sesimwani village, in Kenya’s Mau Forest. The community land mobiliser has called a meeting for the entire Ogiek community to discuss its by-laws.  

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