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Indonesia: Land disputes: Lessons from West Papua

By: Richard Welford
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: CSR Asia

A new report compiled by the Brisbane Catholic Justice and Peace Commission’s Shadow Human Rights Fact Finding Mission to West Papua, has documented human rights abuses and the complicity of businesses in West Papua.

The report documents religious, social and economic discrimination, including how the use of land for major developments has benefited multinationals has excluded Papuans from ownership and jobs. The government is accused of carving up land and giving it to some 50 multinational companies.

Thinking about scale in land information systems

By: Devex Editor

Date: March 15th 2016

Source: Devex.com


This week in Washington, D.C., the World Bank is hosting its Annual Conference on Land and  Poverty, a professional meeting that has swelled considerably in the past five years. Attendee numbers have expanded to a downright packed 1,200 people from governments, development agencies, academia, nongovernmental organizations and technology firms.

Mind the gap - Uganda, Ethiopia show good laws don't always work in practice

By: Paola Totaro

Date: March 15th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation


WASHINGTON, March 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Uganda's constitution of 1995 is known worldwide for pioneering and gender-sensitive provisions to protect women and their rights.


However the reality on the ground, even two decades later, is an entirely different story, according to a report presented on Tuesday at a World Bank Conference on Land Rights and Poverty.

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