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Tanzania: Solution for Land Squabbles in Sight
By: Kelvin Matandiko
Date: March 30th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen
OPINION
Kilombero — Curbing land conflicts is high on the agenda of the fifth phase government's leader, President John Magufuli.
No wonder he cautioned new regional commissioners he recently appointed that they would be measured by how much each of them addresses the ever growing challenge in his area of jurisdiction.
COP22 Special: REDD+ monitoring is a technical and political balancing act
By: Barbara Fraser
Date: 10 November 2016
Source: Cifor
The success of measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) systems lies not only in their technical design, but also in their social and economic implications
Monitoring deforestation so countries can track their greenhouse gas emission targets might seem like a technical matter of satellite images and data.
Land Economist Sought: Strengthening Advisory Capacities for Land Governance in Africa
Addressing land policy is critical for a world without hunger, for climate resilience and sustainable urbanization. Policy-makers’ awareness of the importance of land governance has grown over the last years.
Killings of Brazil's indigenous Indians highlight tensions of land disputes
Ghana: New Land Act will protect gender rights – Minister
Date: April 26th 2016
Source: Ghana Business News
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources through the Land Administration Project (LAP) is incorporating gender land right issues into the New Draft Land Bill to protect the interest of the vulnerable in society.
Deaths of land rights defenders treble in a year as violence surges, says report
By: Rina Chandran
Date: 12 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
The battle over land and resources turned bloodier in the past year with treble the number of land rights defenders killed, according to a human rights group that fears the violence will get even worse.
Indigenous women in Latin America remain invisible to society, warns UN
Indigenous women in Latin America continue to face great gaps in access to higher education, health services and employment, although there have been significant educational advances, according to a reportby the UN's Economic Commission f or Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac).
Sarawak gov't awards land rights to 373 Miri squatters
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.
Slum violence inspires Kenyans to tackle huge housing shortage
By: Katy Migiro
Date: 29 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Recently married with a one-year-old child, Joan Moraa Mbogo dreams of escaping Kenya's noisy, dirty, crime-ridden capital and buying a home close to her mother's newly-built apartment overlooking the Lukenya Hills.