By: Emmanuel Ntirenganya
Date: April 19th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The New Times
Women activists have called for policy changes to allow people jointly owning a piece of land that is less than an hectare in size to use it as they please.
By: Anne Kidmose Jensen
Date: April 19th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen
Dar es Salaam — Human Rights Watch has urged the government to 'immediately' amend provisions of the inheritance law, saying it violates the rights of women.
Under the existing laws, women are often left with nothing when their husbands die and coerced to leave their land, which is against international agreements on women's rights.
By: Wu Guoxiu
Date: April 20th 2016
Source: CCTV.com
By: Lean Alfred Santos
Date: April 19th 2016
Source: DEVEX
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: April 19th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO, April 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous tribes in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, who have had little or no contact with the outside world, are facing "annihilation" from illegal loggers, ranchers and miners who want their land, a campaign group said on Tuesday.
By: Web Desk
Date: April 19th 2016
Source: The News Tribe
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has demanded an urgent and thorough investigation into the land acquisition practices in Karachi by the largest real estate developers in the country and expressed concerns over reports of use of the state’s coercive powers to deprive rightful owners of their land.
In 15 seconds, Kofi Annan captures the importance of land rights in lifting the world's poor out of poverty.
By: John Vidal
Date: April 18th 2016
Source: The Guardian
By: Astrid Zweynert
Date: April 15th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
OXFORD, England, April 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Laws giving men and women equal rights to land are not enough to ensure equality if they are not accompanied by efforts to empower and educate women, said the head of an organisation working to put the power of the law into people's hands.
By: IPS
Date: April 13th 2016
Source: Caribbean 360
SANTIAGO, Chile, Thursday April 13, 2016, IPS – Rural women in Latin America continue to face serious obstacles to land tenure, which leave them vulnerable, despite their growing importance in food production and food security.