By: Yi Ming and Lü Bingbing
Date: May 3rd 2016
Source: Women of China
Over 94 percent of rural villages or communities in east China's Shandong Province have included women's names on rural land rights certificates, to safeguard their legal rights and interests, according to a Shandong Women's Federation official.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: April 29th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Land rights campaigners and environmentalists are facing growing violence and intimidation in Brazil, with at least six activists killed so far this year, a human rights group said.
On May 9, 2012, the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) adopted a landmark document laying out principles and internationally accepted standards on land governance and tenure security - the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT). Members of the Global Donor Working Group on Land (GDWGL) actively supported both technically and financially the inception of the VGGT and their formulation.
Program: WRI Indonesia
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
Position Type: Regular full-time
About WRI Indonesia
ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION: UN-HABITAT
DUTY STATION: Home Based with missions as necessary
FUNCTIONAL TITLE: Consultant: Specialist legal and technical support on implementation of the Flexible Land Tenure Act of Namibia
DURATION: Twenty five (25) days spread over 8 months
CLOSING DATE: 12 May 2016
BACKGROUND
Source: ANGOP
Photo: JOSÉ KRITHINAS
Mon, 11 Apr 2016 13:10 - Updated Mon, 11 Apr 2016 13:30
Huila: Matala administration makes available 20,000 hectares for agriculture
Matala - Over 20,000 hectares of land have been made available for national and foreign entrepreneurs interested in investing in the agricultural sector in Matala Municipality, southern Huila Province, informed on Monday the Matala administrator, Miguel Vicente.
By: Kuzeeko Tjitemisa
Date: April 28th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / New Era
Windhoek — Minister of Land Reform Utoni Nujoma says the shortage of experienced technical and professional staff skilled in the use of geospatial data for good governance is a serious concern, as it constrains his ministry.
Date: April 28th 2016
Source: Survival International
Last month Yanomami representatives in Venezuela handed in a demand to the state government for the recognition of their territory.
By: Brooks Marmon
Date: April 28th 2016
Source: Washington Post