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Amazon priest who championed land rights for Brazil's poor is arrested
Brazilian police have arrested a priest in the Amazon who championed the rights of smallholders against powerful agricultural interests.
Father Amaro Lopes is the best-known follower of the American-born nun, Dorothy Stang, who was murdered in 2005 in a killing orchestrated by landowners during a dispute that continues today.
Announcing the launch of the Research Consortium on Women’s Land Rights
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Research Consortium, a new powerful hub for the collection, sharing, and exchange of knowledge on how to effectively advance women’s land rights. We know women’s land rights matter, and the Research Consortium is designed to help us figure out how to ensure these rights are realized.
Legal activism key to securing land rights during new investment phase
In the face of rapid changes, how can people in Cameroon ensure they get the best deal to protect their land?
In the shade of a local school’s corrugated iron roof, a group of men and women debate what to do.
Conference: Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World
An international conference, organised by the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI), will take place in The Hague from 16-17 March 2018.
Authoritarian populism is on the rise, boosted by support from rural areas. The conference examines why, and explores the alternatives: the social and political processes in rural spaces that are resisting or responding to regressive, authoritarian politics.
Her Land Her Story: A Women's Land Rights Campaign
Please join us for a special campaign to shine a spotlight on women’s land rights.
Call for Abstracts LANDac conference
We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting abstract submissions for our Annual International Conference 2018.
Abstract submissions will be accepted until 1 April 2018.
LAND GOVERNANCE AND (IM)MOBILITY
Exploring the nexus between land acquisition, displacement and migration
28th and 29th June 2018
Updated Myanmar Guidebook on Customary Tenure Documentation Now Available
Mekong Region Land Governance launches an updated guidebook for documenting customary tenure in Myanmar on 9 March in Yangon.
This second edition of “Documenting Customary in Myanmar: A Guidebook” includes:
- an introduction to customary tenure concepts and principles,
- an overview of legal issues and challenges to claiming customary tenure under Myanmer’s current legal framework; and
- practical tools and resources to help people document their own customary claims.
Land Portal Masterclass on Open Data Awareness Raising at the India Land and Development Conference (ILDC)
Their forefathers were enslaved. Now, 400 years later, their children will be landowners
Rare victory for Brazilian poor, as record Amazon land tract is handed over to descendants of escaped enslaved people
It was a modest ceremony for such a significant victory: it is not every day that the descendants of enslaved people are given the title to their land. But there was no doubt of its importance at a time when the protection of Brazil’s traditional rural communities is threatened by a conservative government in league with powerful agribusiness interests.
Latin American countries sign legally binding pact to protect land defenders
New treaty compels states to investigate and punish killings and attacks on people defending their land or environment
Officials from 24 Latin American and Caribbean states have signed a legally binding environmental rights pact containing measures to protect land defenders, almost two years to the day since environmental leader Berta Cáceres was killed in her home in Honduras.
Job Opportunity at ILC: Programme Analyst
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Institutions of land reform need to be strengthened‚ advocate says
Government needs to strengthen institutions of land reform‚ eliminate corruption and deal with bureaucracy if it wants to succeed with the new land reform proposals.
That’s according to prominent advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi.
He said this was the thrust of what President Cyril Ramaphosa announced in his state of the nation address to Parliament and what the Economic Freedom Fighters have tabled before the same house.