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Kachin Development Networking Group
KDNG is a network of Kachin civil society groups and development organizations inside Kachin State and abroad. It was in September 2004.
KDNG promotes the formation of a healthy civil society based on equality and justice for local people. It works to document the military government's exploitation of natural resources, collecting information large scale development including mining, mono crop plantation and hydropower.
Mon Youth Progressive Organization
The Mon Youth Progressive Organization, MYPO, is an independent youth organization which was founded by the youth and students from different places in Mon State with the goals; supporting for democracy, human rights and building a strong civil society for peaceful and democratic change in Burma in 1999. It is temporarily located in Sangkhlaburi in Thai-Burma border. The members of the MYPO are students and grass-root activists who are interested in social and political change in Mon State particularly.
RESOLVE
Mission
RESOLVE builds strong, enduring solutions to environmental, social, and health challenges. We help community, business, government, and NGO leaders get results and create lasting relationships through collaboration. RESOLVE is an independent non-profit organization with a thirty-eight year track record of success.
History
Guatemala: "We will not buy what is ours"
By: Manuela Picq
Date: September 29th 2016
Source: Intercontinental Cry Magazine
Challenging Terra Nullius in the courts of Guatemala
Copones is a large Maya Q’eqchi’ territory in Guatemala, in the northern province of Quiché along the Mexican border with Chiapas. Q’eqchi’ communities have lived in Copones for millennia, caring for rivers and the land generation after generation. Their territory extends over 20,000 hectares of clean rivers and fertile land.
Gold mine chose 'eviction over dialogue' in Peru land dispute: report
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 29th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One of the world's biggest gold mining firms has pledged to improve its dispute resolution practices following an 18-month investigation into a bitter, ongoing conflict over land between farmers and its Peruvian subsidiary.
Nepal: Private sector's role key for well-managed urbanization
By: Republica
Date: September 29th 2016
Source: My República
KATHMANDU, Sept 29: Experts have said that the private sector has a key role in ushering in well-managed urbanization in the country.
Australia: Rangelands land tenure reform on hold for now
By: Clayton Utz
Date: September 29th 2016
Source: Lexology
The draft Land Administration Amendment Bill 2016 will not be introduced to the WA Parliament during this term of government. But proposals for reforms to WA Crown land tenure are likely to be revived following the upcoming State election.
Azerbaijan begins preparing a national strategy for land consolidation
Date: September 29th 2016
Source: ABC.AZ
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. The Food & Agriculture Organization (UN FAO) has launched a project in Azerbaijan, aimed at assisting in the development of a national strategy for land consolidation.
FAO land tenure officer Morten Hartvigsen has stated that in order to achieve the objectives of this project, the organization gathers a team of professionals from various related industries, such as land management, land law, land registration, rural development and gender.
Brazil's Iconic MST Blasts 'Undemocratic' Agrarian Reform
Date: September 29th 2016
Source: TeleSUR English
The Landless Movement accused the Federal District government of rolling out criminalization against the movement while ruling by decree.
It’s not easy for women to own land in India. One woman died fighting for hers.
By: Annie Gowen
Date: September 29th 2016
Source: The Washington Post
INDIA’S DIVIDE | This is part of a series about oppression and violence against women in India as a rising generation collides with old social mores.