[From Orissadiary.com] Bhubaneswar: The unusual venue of Hotel Presidency saw a ‘Public Hearing’ on Women’s property Rights, organised by Agragamee, with support from European Union, and Welthungerhilfe. Women from eight districts, including Koraput, Nabrangpur,  Rayagada, Kalahandi, Nuapada, Keonjhar, Angul, and Kandhmal, presented their herculean struggles for a piece of land.

 

Below you can find the newsletter from the Civil Society Section of OHCHR on the upcoming CEDAW sessions.

[From Landesa] DECEMBER 8, 2011 — Landesa announces the creation of its Women’s Land Rights Visiting Professionals Program to pro

[From SABC News]  United in song and in views, participants of today’s Rural Women’s Forum gathered at the Occupy Land site just outside the Inkosi Luthuli International Convention Centre to raise their views. 

[From Business Line - The Hindu] Come winter, snow or rain, for the past 15-odd years, Meera (name changed) has been knocking on the doors of courts in Himachal Pradesh.

[From The Times of India] SHIMLA: The tribal valley of Kinnaur is witnessing a quiet revolution as women have joined hands to fight a draconian law which deprives them of ancestral proper

 Police have detained an activist on charges of breaching Burma’s notorious Video Act after he allegedly filmed a protest by landless farmers in Irrawaddy division two months ago.