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Zika fuelled by rapid urbanization, poor conditions in Latam’s slums – experts
By: Anastasia Moloney
Date: February 19th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation / Euronews
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The mosquito-borne Zika virus spreading through the Americas, linked to severe birth defects in Brazil, will not be controlled over the long-term unless governments improve poor living conditions in the region’s sprawling slums, experts say.
China should let its big cities grow
By: Ming Lu
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: Nikkei Asian Review
Chinese leaders have announced plans to reform the country's household registration, or hukou, system to transform domestic migrant workers into local citizens of the cities where they work and live. Such a policy change would mark a momentous development.
Pakistan: Sindh govt legalises Karachi slums
By: Aslam Shah
Date: February 19th 2016
Source: Daily Times
Sindh Assembly issues notification granting leasehold rights to slum dwellers
KARACHI: Thousands of innocent Karachiites are being deprived of their hard-earned lifetime saving in shape of properties encroached upon by the 'katchi abadis'.
Trans-Pacific Partnership Threatens Indigenous Land Rights Says the UN
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: TeleSUR
The trade agreement signed earlier in February will have a devastating effect on Indigenous people, the last guardians of our natural world.
Myanmar: A sound basis for Land Reform
By: Daniel Aguirre
Date: February 19th 2016
Source: Frontier Myanmar
The new National Land Use Policy is a positive step, but its principles need to be enshrined in law to protect the vulnerable from land grabs and forced evictions.
Kenya: Bamburi residents protest over grabbing of ancestral land
By: Maxwell Ngala
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: Hivisasa.com
More than 500 families at Lamkani area, in Bamburi, are crying out for justice over alleged grabbing of their ancestral land by influential private developers who have colluded with local administration and land officers.
Activities of Herdsmen Threaten Ghana’s Food security
By: Admin
Date: February 17th 2016
Source: News Ghana
Ghana is in rough spot. Its commodity prices are falling and the country’s last resort which is the agriculture sector is being threatened by the activities of Fulani herdsmen who migrate into the country from the Sahelian region of West Africa.
India: Chhattisgarh govt cancels tribal rights over forest lands
By: Nitin Sethi
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: Business Standard
Forest Rights Act allows government to divert forest lands for other purposes only after prior consent of the tribals through gram sabhas
Indigenous land and forest rights in the spotlight during pope’s visit to Mexico
By: Sandra Cuffe
Date: February 17th 2016
Source: Mongabay
During the pope's recent five-day visit to Mexico, indigenous and community groups from throughout Latin America gathered to discuss land rights issues.