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Land grabs often driven by investors seeking land, Global Witness says
[Editor’s note: Researchers at the environmental watchdog Global Witness say Cambodia’s ongoing land crisis is part of a larger global trend, one driven by economics and resource shortages. With less stability in markets and investments, investors have gone looking for farmland in countries like Cambodia, where it is easy to strike a deal, says Josie Cohen, a campaigner who has researched land grabs in the Mekong Delta for Global Witness.
Justice for Berta: Honduran women activists launch land rights campaign
By: Vicki Gass
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: Oxfam America
Women are banding together in Honduras and around the world to demand #LandRightsNow.
Call For Submissions/Communications: Allegations Of Human Rights Violations Affecting The Status Of Women
Killings of human rights defenders rise; PHL 2nd worst —rights group
By ANASTASIA MOLONEY, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Published January 7, 2016
BOGOTA - Latin America is the deadliest region for human rights activists with scores killed defending land rights, the environment and the rights of LGBTI and indigenous people, a campaign group said on Wednesday.
Sierra Leone's farmers continue to fight multinational land grabs
By: Silas Gbandia
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: Equal Times
A former member of Sierra Leone’s parliament has spoken of his determination to put an end to what he describes as the “underhand deals” taking place between the authorities and international palm oil producers in his country.
Alternative Nobels to US, Spain, Chad, China
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Solar power technology and efforts to protect the rights of birthing mothers, victims of dictatorship and farming communities were rewarded Thursday with the Right Livelihood Awards, sometimes referred to as the alternative Nobel prizes.
Human rights activist Jacqueline Moudeina of Chad; Spanish-based nonprofit GRAIN; and American midwifery educator Ina May Gaskin will share the euro150,000 ($205,000) cash award.
Chinese solar power pioneer Huang Ming receives an honorary award for developing "cutting-edge technologies."
Pakistan: Land reforms: ‘Feudalism and democracy cannot go hand in hand’
By: Correspondent
Date: January 29th 2016
Source: Express Tribune
KARACHI: Feudalism and democracy cannot stand hand in hand, which is why we need to change the entire system as soon as possible.
Making Gender Equality Central to the New Urban Agenda
By: Caroline Moser
Date: October 6th 2016
Source: Next City
On October 17, the Habitat III conference opens in Quito, Ecuador. Its primary objective is for UN member states to adopt the New Urban Agenda (NUA), reflect on the agreements reached, and elaborate on policy and planning processes for its implementation across the globe.
Namibia: Land Reform Weighs Communal Land Benefits
Date: February 5th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / New Era
The Ministry of Land Reform is pondering the possibility of increasing the benefits associated with the registration of communal land rights.
Currently, registered communal land owners are only issued with a certificate. One of the possibilities could be that of using the certificate as collateral.
Indian Government accused of grabbing land from farmers to build 100 smart cities
By: James Bennett
Date: October 25th 2016
Source: ABC News
It is hot and windy as farmer Parduman Sinh looks out across a salt-encrusted floodplain in India's western state of Gujarat.
The Government has offered Mr Sinh part of the muddy expanse as compensation for his farm to make way for one of India's much touted smart cities.