By: Toby Stirling Hill
Date: May 3rd 2016
Source: The Guardian
By: IPS
Date: April 13th 2016
Source: Caribbean 360
SANTIAGO, Chile, Thursday April 13, 2016, IPS – Rural women in Latin America continue to face serious obstacles to land tenure, which leave them vulnerable, despite their growing importance in food production and food security.
By: Bernama
Date: April 8th 2016
Source: Borneo Post Online
PUTRAJAYA: A working committee has been set up to ensure the 50 recommendations by the Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) after an inquiry process into the land rights of indigenous peoples of Malaysia are carried out within the recommended time frame.
By: Paola Totaro
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One in five people worldwide report having paid a bribe for land, with rates even higher in sub-Saharan Africa where women say they are forced to trade sex for property rights, according to research by a top global anti-corruption watchdog.
By: John Kamau
Date: February 21st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
OPINION
Many Kenyans have never heard about the Z-Plots - yet if anyone wants to investigate the origins of land grabbing in Kenya, this is where they should start.
By: Danish Khan
Date: February 22nd 2016
Source: The International News
Due to the colonial history of Pakistan, land distribution is highly skewed in favor of political and social elites. According to estimates, four percent of the wealthiest rural landowners own more than fifty percent of all cultivated land in Pakistan. Moreover, fifty percent of the rural families are landless and this number is continuously on the rise.
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.
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.
By: Jan Khaskheli
Date: February 15th 2016
Source: International News Magazine
Indigenous people and local fishermen in one of the poorest parts of the country in recent years have seen various mafia groups on political patronage scrambled to grab lands they have inhabited for generations.
