Autoras: Anamaria Medeiros, Mariana Vilarim (pesquisadora) e Patricia Chaves​

Num discurso duro no Conselho de Direitos Humanos da ONU, o movimento negro brasileiro pediu o apoio internacional para combater o racismo no Brasil e alertou para os ataques conduzidos por "evangélicos fundamentalistas" contra religiões afro-brasileiras.

Wania Sant'Anna, em nome de 117 entidades que formam a Coalizão Negra por Direitos, apelou à comunidade internacional para se juntem aos afro-brasileiros "na luta contra o racismo, lembrando a situação de todos os africanos - homens e mulheres - que foram submetidos à escravidão por séculos".

India-Land and Development Conference (ILDC) – 2020 held in New Delhi from March 2 to 4 saw a lively debate on a wide range of issues relating to India’s land sector. More than 100 academicians, young researchers, activists and policy makers made their presentations in the conference spread across 34 thematic and two plenary sessions. More than 350 delegates participated in the event. 

Cosmas Milton Ochieng, an expert in natural resource governance and economic development in Africa, is the Director of the African Natural Resource Centre at the African Development Bank.

In collaboration with the African Union Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the African Development Bank will host the 3rd Edition of the Conference on Land Policy in Africa in Abidjan from 25 to 29 November 2019.

In this interview, Ochieng shares key insights into why the conference matters for Africa.

I bring you warm greetings from H.E. Mousa Faki Mahamat, the Chairperson of African Union Commission. It is my honour and pleasure to deliver this statement at the opening of the Conference on Land Policy in Africa. I salute the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Government of Côte D’Ivoire and all partners for hosting and successfully organizing the 2019 Conference on Land Policy in Africa.

“This plot is not for sale” are the six words you will find, marked on a lot of properties and plots of land in Uganda. The words are meant to ward off quack land or property brokers and conmen. Most of the cases handled in courts in Uganda, and Kampala in particular, are fraud-related cases (like selling land while the true owners are away using counterfeit titles) and land transaction fraud (when fake land titles are obtained and sadly some officers in the land registry are involved).