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31 Julho 2017
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The Women’s Land Rights Visiting Professionals Program (VPP) is a capacity-enhancing and network-building initiative of the…
31 Julho 2017
Kashmiri women who are permanent residents lose the right to own property in the state if they marry residents of other states
MUMBAI, July 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A woman from India's Jammu and Kashmir state is challenging a contentious law that denies women the right to own…
28 Julho 2017
Land governance disputes dominate civil and criminal cases in India
With more than 1.3 billion inhabitants, India is the world’s second most populous country, and is experiencing rapid urbanization that is transforming the country. Land governance in India is at a crossroads. With the…
25 Julho 2017
Title deeds have been issued to only 472 persons so far; work to distribute them is under way, says government
More than a year after the Supreme Court had vacated its stay on a Madras High Court order and facilitated distribution of land title deeds to those entitled,under the Scheduled Tribes…
24 Julho 2017
Hyderabad, Jul 24 (PTI) People’s groups today called for rejection of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the mega Free Trade Agreement (FTA) which is currently being negotiated in the city.
People’s groups from different parts of the city took out a protest rally demanding to…
25 Junho 2017
Tribespeople say individual ownership could lead to fragmentation of land
Edamalakudi’s Oorukkoottam — assembly of people in the tribal hamlet and officials — arrived at an unusual decision last month: no individual household in the panchayat would individually own forestland as guaranteed by the…
12 Junho 2017
NEW DELHI, Jun 12 2017 (IPS) - In Meghalaya, India’s northeastern biodiversity hotspot, all three major tribes are matrilineal. Children take the mother’s family name, while daughters inherit the family lands.
Because women own land and have always decided what is grown on it and what is…
12 Junho 2017
Mumbai's 150-year-old Bhendi Bazaar quarter is embarking on a unique community-led modernisation that could be a model for inner-city redevelopment across India
MUMBAI, June 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - All her life, home for Robab Nallwalla has been a one-room flat in central Mumbai, a…
12 Junho 2017
The FRA sought to correct the historical injustice done to the traditional forest-dwelling communities by conferring rights to hold and own forest land where they traditionally lived and cultivated
It's been over 10 years since the Scheduled Tribes and the Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition…
8 Maio 2017
SINGUR, India, May 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farmer Dibakar Ghosh strides across a mosaic of lush green rice paddies and marks the plants already sprayed with fertilizer with a small, pink flag.
The seedlings are flourishing despite the large mounds of mangled metal and concrete that dot…
2 Maio 2017
As the powers that be in Sipasarubali, Odisha work to take over forest land to build a beach resort, villagers who are trying to fight them are under attack.
Puri, Odisha: On April 28, a friend and I went to Gola and Gopinathpur villages in Odisha to meet activists who, in the early 1990s, had been…
22 Abril 2017
More than 200 SC and ST farmers in Telangana have for the first time in the last 70 years got legal rights over their land, thanks to a land rights project. And community participation was the mantra that made it possible
What does a farmer see when he stands on the edge of his land and looks…