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Tanzanians evicted from flood-prone city areas have nowhere to go
By: Kizito Makoye
Date: January 25th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - "Free education but nowhere to sleep!" reads a poster scrawled in Swahili in Dar es Salaam's Jangwani slum, summing up the plight of hundreds of residents forcibly evicted from flood-prone areas of the Tanzanian capital.
Locals fearful as mega-projects drive rush for land on Kenya's coast
By:Sophie Mbugua
Date: 8 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
WITU, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Too poor to buy land where they grew up on Kenya's palm-fringed southern coast, Sylvester Jefua and his wife migrated 300 kms northwards to Witu Forest, where they felled seven acres of trees and built a mud and thatch house for their family.
Ten years later, Jefua, 36, still does not feel secure.
JANSATYAGRAHA JAN SAMWAAD YATRA-Day 23
The day was spent in Theni district. Two public hearings were organized to learn about people's struggles and problems. The first public hearing was organized in Periyakulam. About 70 adivasis and dalits participated in the public meeting. Most of the adivasis were from Chokkanalai, Chinnor, Karumparai, Kadapparaikuli, Chellankalam and the dalits were from the city of Periyakulam.
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With limited land, access to it has been a prevailing issue which leads to human rights violations to farmers, and to the disadvantaged women and indigenous peoples.
Farmland security
How agricultural land is owned, what is grown on it, and by whom, will probably determine much of the next century’s politics, profits and, possibly, revolutions.
Namibia: Govt Refuses to Help 'Landless Resettled Farmers'
By: Theresia Tjihenuna
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Namibian
Government says it is not responsible for a stand-off involving two resettlement beneficiaries and a previous farm owner who is refusing to vacate land that has been sold to the state.
Indonesia’s land rights decision a major victory for indigenous peoples
By: Max Walden
Date: 10th January 2017
Source: Asian Correspondent
“THIS is only the beginning,” declared Indonesian President Joko Widodo at a special ceremony at the presidential palace, “[the land being handed back] is still so very small.”
Women in Sierra Leone speak up for their right to property
[From the UN Women West Africa blog] Early in June, Sierra Leone will host a national conference, the first of its kind, on Women’s Rights to Property and Land. Plans are well underway with key stakeholders for the organization of the event.
Progress VS tradition, a brazilian example : why indigenous populations are aways between the devil and the deep blue sea...
"Brazil's ‘monster dam’ has been under construction for a year now, and the impact is already starting to show on the land and the communities.
Controversy has raged over the Belo Monte Dam in the Amazonian state of Para, Brazil for over two decades. Residents of the region, NGOs and the Norte Energia consortium, who won the construction of the project, have fought a long battle over its development.
Habitat III: ‘The future of Africa is urban’
By: David Lawal
Date: February 24th 2016
Source: The Nation
The city of Abuja, under the auspices of the Government of Nigeria, is about to host a strategic event vital to the future of Africa and its citizens.
The Habitat III Africa Regional Meeting of 24-26 February is a crucial spur to the current global debate on urbanization as a source of prosperity and an engine of development.