By: Kamanthi Wickramasinghe
Date: November 2nd 2016
Source: Daily Mirror
The law relating to land rights and land contracts in Sri Lanka have been embedded in a complex web of statutes that existed since the year 1863. This was during the colonial rule, a period in which the patriarchal system prevailed.
By: Rina Chandran
Date: November 2nd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
CHAKSU, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Days before she was married 18 years ago, K. Bina Devi and her sister were called to the living room of the family home where they lived with their parents and four brothers.
By Zabihullah Noori
Date: October 11th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
By: Lois Aduamoah – Addo, WiLDAF Ghana
Date: October 4th 2016
Source: GhanaWeb
Despite the range of legal provisions in Ghana emphasising equality of all persons before the law, there are still significant pieces of evidence to suggest that the rights of vulnerable groups including women are not fully protected when it comes to access and use of land as a productive asset.
By: Annie Gowen
Date: September 29th 2016
Source: The Washington Post
By: Roy Prosterman (Landesa)
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Since World War II, there have been five great Asian development success stories founded upon land tenure reforms that allocated land ownership, or equivalent long-term land rights, into the hands of small farmers. Will Burma be the sixth?
By: S. Matthew English
Date: September 4th 2016
Source: The Coin Telegraph
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: August 30th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Brazil's Amazon where no-one knows who exactly owns a swathe of territory the size of Ukraine, a lack of formal property deeds is causing conflict, greater deforestation and environmental damage, researchers said on Tuesday.
