News on Land

By:  Zikri Kamarulzaman

Date: May 5th 2016

Source: Malaysiakini

S'WAK POLLS The Sarawak BN government today awarded individual land rights to 373 squatters in rural Miri, who will now be relocated to proper housing in the satellite town of Tudan.

The recipients were from three squatter villages in the Piasau constituency, namely Kampung Pasir, Kampung Api-Api and Kampung Merican.

The three villages are mainly Dayak areas. Dayaks make up about half of Piasau's 41 percent bumiputera voters.

MSP Paul Wheelhouse has said that the government will "fail the people of Scotland" if land is not distributed more widely, and promised that the government's land reform report would bring some "radical proposals" adding: "I doubt anyone would design a system where you ended up with only 432 people owning half the private land."

Date: June 4th, 2016
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/tribals-hold-rally-for-murdered-leader-demand-land-rights/article8688349.eceSource: The Hindu

A meeting was organised by the All-India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha (AIKMS) at Kumarabandha of Dharakote block in Ganjam district of Odisha on Friday in memory of tribal leader Adangu Gomango, who was murdered at the same village early morning on May 23.

Mak Siv Hong appeals to a local official outside her home ------In a dusty outer suburb of the Cambodian capital sits a litter-strewn patch of land with three small shacks. One, a makeshift corrugated iron structure, is covered by a hole-strewn tarpaulin which leaves its residents partially open to the elements.

Date: 21 of June 2016

Source: IWMI

South Asian Water Studies (SAWAS), an open access journal http://www.sawasjournal.org, has issued a call for papers for a special issue on ‘Water justice, Gender and Disability.’

 

Pole Mountain area. Photo by Stephen Joseph Photography/Courtesy of Sonoma Land Trust on Facebook.

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Sonoma Land Trust has completed the $2.35 million purchase of Pole Mountain Preserve, which includes the highest peak along the Sonoma Coast. 

The Preserve's 238 acres connects the Jenner Headlands and the Sonoma Land Trust's Little Black Mountain Preserve near Cazadero. 

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Date: 05 July 2016

Source: Indian Country

Alaska Native communities have a bit more control over their land thanks to a July 1 ruling in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that affirms their ability to place lands into federal trust, just as other tribes can, in what Alaska tribes are calling a landmark ruling.

More than land rights, the ruling enables Alaska Native governments to regulate alcohol and take other measures to protect members’ health and safety.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)  is inviting indigenous peoples’ organizations and communities, and organizations that work with them, to apply for grants that fund projects and partnerships to promote the development of indigenous peoples and their unique cultural identity.

 

Grants ranging from US$20,000 to US$50,000 will be awarded to applicants from IFAD’s developing Member States through the Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility (IPAF).