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The Rethinking Expropriation Law initiative hosted a Conference on Compensation for Expropriation in Cape Town, South Africa on December 7-9, 2016. The final session of the Conference took place on December 9 and aimed at discussing the development of a protocol on fair compensation.
For the final…
Despite the fact that land is intrinsically fixed in space, a new transnational market for land is born. Indeed, data from the Land Matrix suggests that in the last 16 years 77.5 million hectares of land – a surface slightly smaller than the entire Mozambique – have been transferred to…
Everyone was energised by the trek of 29 women from 22 African countries up and down Kilimanjaro this month to raise awareness of women’s land rights, producing a charter of 15 demands on how to protect and enhance these rights. A powerful statement and great mobilising action.
Such practical…
Date: 21 décembre 2016
Source: Conso-Globe
Par Camille Tourneboeuf
Le ‘land grabbing’, ou l’accaparement des terres fertiles, au profit de puissances étrangères, continue de par le monde. Surtout en Afrique.
L’achat ou la location de terres étrangères par les États s’accélère depuis la…
By Barbara Fraser, Freelance Journalist for the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
A Harakmbut indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon has no say over the 17 gold-mining concessions overlapping its territory, despite holding a title to the land. Meanwhile in Uganda, a…
Date: 06 janvier 2016
Source: Viacampesina.org
Proposition de la Coordination Européenne Via Campesina
Vers une compréhension et une définition commune de l’accaparement des terres dans le monde entier.
Aucune définition complète de l’accaparement des terres réunissant toutes les…
From November 28 to December 23, 2016, Land Portal hosted a successful Land Debate on land valuation and fair compensation. The debate focused on the question of what is fair compensation for land in cases of land tenure changes (e.g. expropriations and voluntary land transfers), and what measures…
Until now, a comprehensive study of national-level expropriation, compensation, and resettlement procedures in 50 countries across has not been conducted. My PhD research project, facilitated by the University of Groningen Faculty of Law, aims to bridge this gap by providing a broad comparative…
By Bruce H. Moore, former Director of ILC Secretariat
Whereas the property rights of poor people were previously seen as a call for social justice, today land rights are understood to also be at the nexus of the economic, environmental, political and social order.
The foundation for…
Date: 3 mars 2017
Source: Fao.org
Par Fao
Les communautés locales ont besoin d’aide afin d’atténuer les conflits opposant les populations à la faune.
Il est essentiel d'impliquer activement les populations autochtones et les communautés locales dans les efforts visant à conserver la faune…
By Rachel Crome, Digital editor at Amnesty International
If there’s one thing we learned from January’s historic Women’s March, it’s that women are fed up of waiting. More than 3 million people – of all genders – marched worldwide for women’s rights, spurred on by US President Donald Trump’s…
Este es un artículo de opinión de Monique Barbut, subsecretaria general de la ONU y secretaria ejecutiva de la Convención de Lucha contra la Desertificación. Forma parte de la cobertura especial de IPS con motivo del Día Internacional de la Mujer, el 8 de marzo
El Día Internacional de la…