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Failure to pass equality bill betrays Nigerian women, activists say
By: Kieran Guilbert
Date: March 17th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women's rights activists condemned the Nigerian Senate on Thursday for rejecting a gender and equality law that pledged to eliminate discrimination in politics, education and employment, protect women's land rights and tackle violence against women.
Scotland: ‘Historic’ land reform legislation passed
By: Andy Wightman
Date: March 17th 2016
Source: Scottishlegal.com
Legislation to transform how land is used and governed has been passed by the Scottish Parliament.
The Land Reform (Scotland) Bill will allow ministers to create a public register of those with a controlling interest in land to increase the transparency around land ownership.
Indigenous Activist Murdered in Honduras Just Two Weeks After Berta Cáceres Was Killed
By: Nika Knight
Date: March 17th 2016
Source: EcoWatch
Another member of Berta Cáceres’ Indigenous rights group was brutally murdered by unidentified assailants on Tuesday, following a violent eviction of Indigenous people from their land.
China: Urbanization key to reducing housing inventory
By: Ming Tian
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: CCTV
How can China deal with this real estate glut - that 720 million square meters of unsold housing? Political advisors say urbanization may be the way.
Real estate developers are feeling the heat, especially in less developed areas of China.
Large numbers of new apartment buildings stand empty. What used to be an asset has now become a liability.
'Losing our land like losing our lives', Brazil activist tells World Bank
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Investors describe it as one of the last frontiers for major agricultural expansion - a vast area in Brazil's poor northeast that the government is eager to open up to investors hoping to set up big new soy farms and cattle ranches.
FACTBOX-Women's land rights around the world
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: March 17th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO, March 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women account for nearly half of the developing world's farmers, yet they own far less land than men despite growing evidence that increasing female land ownership can boost food production, education levels and child nutrition.
South Sudan army says land grabbing not official policy
By: ST
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: Sudan Tribune
March 16, 2016 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s national army, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), has distanced itself from reports charging that some of its soldiers and officers have been grabbing land in and around Juba in a manner indicative of the practice having become an official policy of the government and the army.
Women forced to trade sex for land rights, global research finds
By: Paola Totaro
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One in five people worldwide report having paid a bribe for land, with rates even higher in sub-Saharan Africa where women say they are forced to trade sex for property rights, according to research by a top global anti-corruption watchdog.
Indonesia: Land disputes: Lessons from West Papua
By: Richard Welford
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: CSR Asia
A new report compiled by the Brisbane Catholic Justice and Peace Commission’s Shadow Human Rights Fact Finding Mission to West Papua, has documented human rights abuses and the complicity of businesses in West Papua.
The report documents religious, social and economic discrimination, including how the use of land for major developments has benefited multinationals has excluded Papuans from ownership and jobs. The government is accused of carving up land and giving it to some 50 multinational companies.