3 April 2017
The Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development and the Mekong Land Research Forum will run a week-long intensive summer school on land research in the Mekong Region. The purpose of the summer school is to equip early-career academic and advocacy-oriented researchers with key
27 March 2017
Pastoralism is the main production system practised by communities who live in range lands and dry lands which are usually arid or semi-arid. But pastoral communities are facing increasing pressure on their land.
Date: September 3rd 2016
Source: The News Pakistan
Women in parts of conflict-hit central and eastern India are more vulnerable to violence and eviction from their land because a decades-long insurgency has made it harder for them to claim equal land rights, according to a new study.
By: Jennifer Duncan and Jaron Vogelsang
Date: August 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Civil society groups say failure to pass land reform could plunge the country into violence
Via Business World Online
August 18, 2015 | MANILA, PHILIPPINES
Posted on August 17, 2015 09:34:00 PM
By Tzili Mor, Director of the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights
Women’s rights and customary wrongs
SEATTLE -- One of the greatest challenges facing women in much of the world is
By: Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Date: August 17th 2016
Source: Human Rights Watch
Enact Proposed Law to Protect Rural Communities
By: Sally Andrews
Date: March 22nd 2016
Source: The Diplomat
97 percent of land in Papua New Guinea is held under customary title, leading to sky-high prices for the remaining 3 percent.