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Africa: Women's Rights First - African Summit
By: Baher Kamal
Date: February 1st 2016
Source: Inter Press Service / AllAfrica.com
Cairo — Despite the enormous challenges facing Africa now, the leaders of its 1.2 billion plus inhabitants have decided to spotlight the issue of Human Rights With a Particular Focus on the Rights of Women in their 26th summit held in Addis Ababa on 21-31 January this year. Why?
Food security: Asia’s critical balancing act
By: R. Quentin Grafton and John Williams, ANU, and Qiang Jiang, Sichuan University
Date: February 2nd 2016
Source: East Asia Forum
Asia’s food systems are under an unprecedented confluence of pressures. Balancing future food demand and supply in ways that protect the most vulnerable, while also being sustainable, must be a first order policy priority.
Land Grab in Cambodia's Pailin Province Stokes Villagers' Ire
By: Hour Hum
Date: February 2nd 2016
Source: Radio Free Asia
Villagers in Cambodia’s Pailin province are accusing authorities of allowing a powerful local police officer to grab nearly two hectares of mountainous public land for his own use.
Uganda: Museveni Promises to Amend Land Law
By: Francis Mugerwa, George Muzoora & Ronald Tumusiime
Date: January 31st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor
Gomba — President Museveni has promised to introduce an amendment to the land law to improve land tenure security and curb the tide in illegal evictions that the current law has failed to stop.
Thailand: Land reform needed to fight inequality
By: Jon Fernquest
Date: February 1st 2016
Source: Bangkok Post
From land with community deeds for landless to stopping poor farmers & sea gypsies getting kicked off of land, land reform needed to fight inequality at root of Thailand's political conflict.
EDITORIAL
Tanzania: In Defence of the Rights of the Poor to Land, Extractives Resources
By: Deodatus Mfugale
Date: February 1st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily News
ANALYSIS
In September 2015, a group comprising eight non-governmental organisations that deal with land rights and extractives resources advocacy submitted to the Human Rights Council, Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism, a review of the United Republic of Tanzania for the period from 2012 to 2015.
Association pour la Redynamisation de l’Elevage au Niger
L’association pour la redynamisation de l’élevage au Niger (AREN) est créée avec l’émergence des organisations de la société civile, le 19 juillet 1990 et a obtenu son arrêté de reconnaissance n° 20/DAPJ/MI le 14 février 1991.
Vision:
La vision de AREN est celle « d’un monde où les éleveurs pasteurs sont respectés comme tous les autres citoyens, leur contribution à l’économie nationale est reconnue et soutenue, leur activité est sécurisée ».
Centre pour l'Environnement et le Développement Cameroun
Mission et Objectifs
Le CED s’est donné pour mission de contribuer à la protection des droits, des intérêts, de la culture et les aspirations des communautés locales et autochtones des forêts d’Afrique Centrale, par la promotion de la justice environnementale et de la gestion durable des ressources naturelles dans la région.
Nos objectifs sont les suivants:
- Réduire les impacts écologiques et sociaux des industries extractives;