News on Land

The United States will partner with Burkina Faso under the G-8 Transparency Initiative to further improve land governance.

Source: BDLive
Author: Franny Rabkin

ALL land restitution claims made after December 1998 have been put on hold by the Constitutional Court, after the court found that Parliament did not properly consult the public before deciding to reopen the window for claims.

The Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act — which reopened the window for claims — was rushed through Parliament in 2014 ahead of national and provincial elections.

By Richard Finney

Source: Radio Free Asia

Harsh restrictions imposed on Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya minority continued during the final year of that country’s rule by a nominally civilian but military-backed party, while government troops acted with impunity in abusing noncombatants in conflict zones, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday in an annual report on human rights practices around the world.

Nababan added that the need to map these lands has become more urgent since the Constitutional Court’s decision in May, which determined that a line in the country’s 1999 Forestry Law — which stated that customary forests are state forests — was not constitutional.

By: Paola Totaro

Date: August 9th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

The seven lowest scoring nations across all 10 indicators were in the Middle East including Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen

By: teleSUR / md-CM 

Date: April 27th 2016

Source: TeleSUR

Jesus Alvarez was one of the 15,000 indigenous people who participated in the March for Water that ended Friday in the country's capital.

A 29-year-old developer from Ghana has created a mobile app that he hopes will transform the livelihoods of farmers and help address food shortages. Edison Gbenga Ade created the platform, which provides access to markets and information about prices, to help farmers negotiate better deals and improve the timing of getting their crops to market.

By: Sel San

Date: August 22nd 2016

Source: Radio Free Asia

Two land rights activists in Cambodia were convicted Monday of insulting a public official for their version of a “Black Monday” protest earlier this month.

The U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP) delivered rations to a record 3.8 million people in Syria in December, but civilians in eastern provinces and besieged towns near the capital remain out of reach, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday. 

By: Siraje Lubwama
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Observer

Capt Gertrude Njuba, the head of the State House Land department, wants the proposed amendments to the Land Act to include strict provisions that make it extremely difficult for courts of law and land agents to aid land grabbing.

By: Marianne Gadeberg

Date: May 25, 2016

Source: IWMI

About 1.3 billion tons – that’s how much solid waste is generated in cities globally each year. By 2025, the number is expected to have almost doubled, reaching an estimated 2.2 billion tons. A lot of this waste is never collected and even less is treated and reused.