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Myanmar: Dawei locals, CSOs raise concerns over violation of human rights
By: Khine Kyaw
Date: March 10th 2016
Source: The Nation / Myanmar Eleven
CIVIL SOCIETY organisations (CSOs) and local residents living near the Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ) have called for action from the Japanese, Myanmar and Thai governments to tackle human rights violations before allowing the project to resume.
Bangladesh: Separate land commission for plain land indigenous people demanded
Date: March 10th 2016
Source: Dhaka Tribune
Speakers at a token hunger strike yesterday demanded a separate land commission for indigenous people living in plain lands.
The hunger strike was organised by Bangladesh Adivasi Forum, Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Citizens’ Committee and CHT Headman Network at the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital.
Kenya: Leaders Urge Women to Take Up Leadership On International Women's Day
By: Samuel Karanja and Jacqueline Kubania
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
Even though the country has made significant gains in empowering women, female genital mutilation (FGM), rape and domestic violence remain some of the biggest threats that girls and women face daily.
Speaking during the International Women's Day celebrations at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre, women leaders were in agreement that more still needs to be done to safeguard women's rights.
Proposed mechanisms would coordinate post-Habitat III action on urbanization
By: Greg Scruggs
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Citiscope
Forthcoming report by the Habitat III General Assembly of Partners outlines major multilateral infrastructure to facilitate global action on sustainable urbanization, for both the New Urban Agenda and SDGs.
India: Land rights to empower 1900 single women in Mayurbhanj
By: TNN
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Times of India
BALASORE: The Mayurbhanj district administration has handed over land pattas - documents of legal rights - to 1,938 single landless women. The women received legal rights to homestead land at a ceremony on Saturday.
Is there more to India’s urbanization beyond Delhi and Mumbai?
By: Tadit Kundu
Date: March 9th 2016
Source: Live Mint
With close to 25 million people living in Mumbai and Delhi combined, India’s urbanization has clearly been lop-sided
'My land, my life' - West African women march for land rights
By: Kieran Guilbert
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
DAKAR, March 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rural women across West Africa will march to demand equal land rights on Tuesday to mark International Women's Day, as activists urge African nations to invest in female farmers.
Nearing a text: March to see release of key documents informing the New Urban Agenda
By: Gregg Scruggs
Date: March 7th 2016
Source: Citiscope
A series of high-level reports will be made public this month by global stakeholders and experts, constituting major inputs to the first draft of the Habitat III strategy.