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Community rights to natural ressources granted for the first time in India for forest dwellers
Community rights are part of the Forest Rights Act, an India law supposed to guarantee the acces to land and natural ressources for (mainly) indigenous forest dwellers. This law is existing since 2006, but its implementation has many loopholes, especially concerning community rights. In that sense this article is excellent news! To read more click on the link below.
Illegally grabbed land given back to landless people in Kerala / India?
Another article explaining that the government is beginning to consider the issue of landlessness and land grabbing for industrial purposes seriously... Is it just communications or are things really moving in India? One can have some doubts but still appreciate the movement... To read more about the situation in Kerala click on the link below.
Clash over Khas land in Bangladesh leaves one killed
Pirgong, Bangladesh - A young landless peasant was brutally killed in a landless territory called Zoykur at Pirgong, Thakurgoan district on July 3. Kamolakanto Kanu, member of the Joykur Peoples Organization which is facilitated by the Community Development Association (CDA) of Bangladesh, and ILC member. Kanu was brutally killed and 8 others were injured by local influential land grabbers. A certain Satu Ram and his group were trying to occupy the Khas land in Joykur village already occupied by Kanu’s group for the past 12 years.
Asian women lack the most rights to land
A study came out revealing that Asian women are the ones suffering most from lack of land rights, and this seems to prevent some countries to achieve a better development.... To read more click on the link below
Actual implementation of the Forest Rights Act finally seems to happen in Madhya Pradesh, India
The Forest Rights Act had been existing since 2007 in India to allow indigenous people and forest dwellers to claim their right to land, governance at local level, community rights and access to natural resources, but yet the implementation of it has had enormous loopholes, if at all existing... It seems that the recent pressures growing with people's movements have an effect on actual implementation in the State of Madhya Pradesh, India. To read more click on the link below...
Improving a test version of the Observatory
August 7, 2012
The Land Observatory is a project involving those who will contribute, verify and update information on land deals to a web-based platform, and involving those who will explore this information and analyze it. There is no use in developers blindly building a platform without fully understanding the needs and desires of both of those sets of potential users.
Indigenous Rural Women’s Rights under Scrutiny
With the release of its concluding observations addressed to Mexico, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) expresses concern about harmful cultural practices and violence directed at indigenous rural women, as well as their lack of access to land, property and justice and asks for better implementation of women's rights in the country.
The High Court of Chhattisgarh seems to make progress in terms of regulating land acquisitions
The State of Chhattisgarh in India, a tribal state called India's "rice bowl", has been told by its own High Court to regulate the way it is dealing with land acquisitions. To read more click on the link below.
Namibia: Law banning urban land auctions coming
The Namibian Government has put in motion plans to change the Local Authorities Act and to ban town councils from selling land through auctions or tender processes that prevent many low-income earners from owning properties due to inflated prices. The proposal is to change the sections of the Act which gives town councils the power to sell and lease urban land without consulting the line ministry. Read more. http://allafrica.com/stories/201209070989.html