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'Land grabbing' and international investment law: toward a global reconfiguration of property?
This yearbook chapter discusses the link between international investment law and commercial pressures on the world’s natural resources. It argues that changes in legal frameworks are redefining control over natural resources, and facilitating transitions toward more commercialised land relations. As pressures on resources increase, many national laws undermine the rights of people impacted by investments. If not properly thought through, international treaties to protect foreign investment could compound shortcomings of local and national governance.
HABITAT III: UN conference to set new urban development agenda creating sustainable, equitable cities for all
The worldwide race to own fertile land
By: Armando Mombelli
Date: October 14th 2016
Source: Swissinfo.ch
The worrying rise in foreign investors buying up land in poor countries is set to get worse in future, taking valuable resources from local populations. A report out later this month by a Bern database into ‘land grabbing’ should dig deeper into the problem.
FACTBOX-Best and worst countries in Africa for women's land rights
By: Katy Migiro
Date: October 13th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
A group of women is to climb to the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro to call on African governments to improve female access to and control over land
NAIROBI, Oct 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of women from more than 20 African countries are meeting in Tanzania to write a charter of demands to improve their access to and control over land.
India Habitat III National Report: Challenges galore on infra, governance fronts
By: ENS Economic Bureau
Date: October 15th 2016
Source: The Indian Express
India’s urban system consists of 7,933 cities and towns as of 2011 with a population of 377.16 million. It is now the second largest in the world rising from 5,161 towns and cities in 2001 with a total population of 286.1 million
Cultivating a Different Future for Rural Women in Argentina
By: Fabiana Frayssinet
Date: October 13th 2016
Source: IPS News
EL PATO, Argentina, Oct 13 2016 (IPS) - Her seven children have grown up, but she now takes care of a young grandson while working in her organic vegetable garden in El Pato, south of the city of Buenos Aires. Olga Campos wants for them what she wasn’t able to achieve: an education to forge a different future.
Land rights activists on trial in Kazakhstan
By: Liga Rudzite
Date: October 14th 2016
Source: TOL.org
Human rights watchdogs are asking for their release, arguing that their protests did not breach any law.
Natural Resource Women's Platform
Mission
To support the voices of these women against the wrong use of their communities resources, including making sure that they are involved in the decision making process through their organization and to press for equal rights and ownership to natural resources and forest in a way that it will reduce the poor living conditions of these women and the idea of looking down upon them.
African Women Meet At Mount Kilimanjaro to Demand Rights
By: Jean d'Amour Mbonyinshuti
Date: October 12th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The New Times
Rwandan rural women, together with their counterparts from various countries on the continent, will today convene at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in an effort to advocate for unrestricted women's rights to land and other natural resources across the continent.
Liberia: Concessions Violate Women's Rights
Date: October 12th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Observer
A research report released in Monrovia over the weekend by Natural Resources Women's Platform (NRWP), the Alliance for Rural Democracy (ARD), and Green Advocates International (GAI) with support from US based Rights and Resources Initiatives (RRI), unearthed how foreign direct investment deprives local women of the land rights that form the basis for their livelihoods and cultures despite promises of shared economic development.