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Reminder: Friday, February 20, is the deadline to apply to Landesa’s Women’s Land Rights Visiting Professionals Programs
Source: Landesa Center For Women's Land Rights
Friday, February 20, is the deadline to apply to Landesa’s Women’s Land Rights Visiting Professionals Program. Applicants must be professionals from India, China, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Homeless, Landless, and Destitute
Source: Human Rights Watch
Homeless, Landless, and Destitute
The Plight of Zimbabwe’s Tokwe-Mukorsi Flood Victims
Saweto community of late Edwin Chota to win land rights
Source: Peru this Week
January 29, 2015
By Hillary Ojeda
Alto Tamaya-Saweto, a community in Peru’s Amazon Ucayali region, will receive titles to their land after a 12 year lawsuit filed by their murdered leader, Edwin Chota.
The regional government of Ucayali will grant the land title to the native community in the first week of February that confirms their ownership of 78,611.87 hectares of forest.
Call for applications. Researcher / Data analyst Officer. Land Portal Foundation
Researcher / Data analyst Officer
The Land Portal Foundation
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The Land Portal foundation is a non-profit organization headquartered in Groningen, The Netherlands.
Call for applications. Communication and Resources Mobilization Specialist. The Land Portal Foundation
Communication and Resources Mobilization Specialist
The Land Portal Foundation
Organization Profile
The Land Portal foundation is a non-profit organization headquartered in Groningen, The Netherlands.
Call for papers - CURRENT ISSUES OF AGRICULTURAL LAW IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
CURRENT ISSUES OF AGRICULTURAL LAW IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Colloquium
When: 17-18 September 2015
Where: Pisa, Italy
Deadline for abstract: 3rd April 2015
Deadline for draft paper: 3rd July 2015
Full invitation: http://www.cdg-lab.dirpolis.sssup.it/files/2015/01/Colloquium.pdf
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Indigenous Barngarla Australians win land claim
Source: BBC News
Australia's indigenous Barngarla people have won a campaign, lasting nearly 20 years, for the law to recognise their right to traditional lands.
The native title claim over a huge tract of land in South Australia has been mostly upheld by a federal court.
Native titles are pre-colonial rights held by Australia's indigenous people, derived from their laws and customs.