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India: In for 50% quota, not even 10% women own land
By: TNN
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Times of India
Lucknow - On the eve of International Women's Day, while UP [Uttar Pradesh] celebrates an increased participation of women in its block and zila panchayats, higher even than the Central proposal of 50% reservation for women in local bodies, ownership of land among women remains abysmally low.
Female farmers in 90 nations face discriminatory land laws
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO, March 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women in more than 90 countries still lack equal rights to own land, hurting food production and efforts to tackle poverty, Rwanda's former agriculture minister said.
Thailand: 800,000 landless awaiting land allotment
By: Online reporter
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Bangkok Post
About 800,000 landless people are awaiting promised land allotments from government agencies, according to figures compiled by the Agricultural Land Reform Office (Alro) of the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry.
Trinidad and Tobago: Concern over land grabbing in Sangre Grande, Point Fortin
By: Shaliza Hassanali
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Guardian Trinidad and Tobago
In the last eight months, hundreds of squatters have encroached on State lands in the Sangre Grande and Point Fortin areas.
The land grabbing in these two districts has now become a major concern.
Tanzania: Morogoro Leaders Challenged to Resolve Disputes Amicably
By: Jimmy Lwangili
Date: March 6th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily News
Morogoro — Assistant Commissioner of Land in Eastern zone, Ms Juliana Pilla has urged leaders of Kilombero, Ulanga and Malinyi to resolve land disputes in the villages and wards to simplify the exercise of surveying and titling of land projects in the districts.
Guatemala: A state of land grabs
By: Pambana Bassett
Date: March 5th 2016
Source: Amandela
The concerns about the massive land grab of Belize, whether it be up to the Sibun River, or the entire 8,867 square miles of land in addition to sea territory, are serious. The oligarchy of Guatemala has made a habit of usurping land from those to whom it belongs, for hundreds of years.
Berta Cáceres one of hundreds of land protesters murdered in last decade
By: Damian Carrington
Date: March 4th 2016
Source: The Guardian
Killings of environmental protesters, often indigenous people fighting to protect land, on the rise with 2015 likely to have been deadliest year on record
Tanzania: Three Morogoro Region Districts to Benefit From Land Tenure Programme
By: Jimmy Lwangili
Date: March 4th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily News
Morogoro — Three districts in Morogoro Region will have their land surveyed in a bid to help people access title deeds and proper management of their land.
Surveying land and allocating it for various purposes will be done in Ulanga, Malinyi and Kilombero districts, through implementation of the Land Tenure Support Programme (LTSP) for Tanzania that kicked off in January 2015.
Africa: Gender and land rights program introduced in UCC
By: Admin
Date: March 4th 2016
Source: News Ghana
A two-week programme on gender and land rights to enhance the analytical skills of young academicians is underway at the University of Cape Coast.