By: Joshua Steckley and Beverly Bell
Date: January 21st 2016
Source: Upsidedownworld.org
This report is based on extensive interviews, on-site and via phone, with more than 20 government officials, economic development professionals, peasant farmers, and community organizers, between July 2015
By: Pia Ranada
Date: February 3rd 2016
Source: Rappler
The presidential bet says land distribution under the Aquino government is a 'farce' because support services are not being given to farmers
MANILA, Philippines – Under the Aquino administration, farmers have endured a “total failure of
By: Reese Ewing
Date: April 7th 2016
Source: Reuters / Daily Mail
SAO PAULO, April 7 (Reuters) - A Brazilian court has ordered the government to suspend its agrarian reform program, citing evidence that instead of helping the poor it was used to hand out free land to thousands of politicians,
By: Sebastien Malo
Date: December 30th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations criticized the government of Ecuador on Friday for ordering the closure of a land rights advocacy group that supports an indigenous community protesting mining
By: Maka Angola
Date: January 29th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com
ANALYSIS
Angolan investigative journalist and human rights defender Rafael Marques de Morais has submitted a complaint to the Office of the Attorney General about the behaviour of notorious Kwanza-Sul Governor, General Eusébio de
By: INU Staff
Date: March 11th 2016
Source: Iran News Update
INU - The head of Iran's land affairs organization acknowledged in an interview with state television on Thursday that 800 government officials are implicated in cases of ‘land-grabbing’ in the country.
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By: Fionuala Cregan
Date: January 20th 2016
Source: IC Magazine
NEW REPORT DOCUMENTS CHALLENGES OF DEFENDING INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS IN THE PARAGUAYAN CHACO
"We don't care if our struggle involves going to prison or even dying. Our struggle is about justice because the land is ours and our children'
By: Niem Chheng
Date: February 8th 2016
Source: Phnom Penh Post
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction issued a statement on Saturday defending its track record and denying that Germany ended its support for the ministry’s land rights program due to a lack of
By: Athar Parvaiz
Date: 15 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Mismanagement of a flagship land ownership scheme in India's northern Jammu and Kashmir state, banked on by the regional government to generate cash to build its own power plants, is holding back local ambitions for