By: Helen Davidson
Date: August 24th 2016
Source: The Guardian
By: May Titthara
Date: August 19th 2016
Source: Khmer Times
Provincial officials in Rattanakiri rejected a request by the Vietnamese government to allow them to construct buildings and a border checkpoint in O’Yadav district after a meeting between both sides in Banlung City on Tuesday.
By: Norbert Mao
Date: August 14th 2016
Source: Daily Monitor
OPINION
Once again the contentious issue of compulsory land acquisitions is back on our agenda.
By: Swati Ramanathan
Date: April 8th 2016
Source: Live Mint
OPINION
By: By John Unson
Date: March 2nd 2016
Source: Philstar.com
COTABATO CITY, Philippines – It was a tedious and expensive 17-year uphill struggle for land ownership they will never ever forget.
The 54 peasants who fought it out had finally been grouped Tuesday into a communal bloc, the Maloong-Canal Farmers Agrarian Reform Multi-Purpose Cooperative, as a positive aftermath of a battle stymied by lack of money and connections.
By: Niem Chheng
Date: February 8th 2016
Source: Phnom Penh Post
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction issued a statement on Saturday defending its track record and denying that Germany ended its support for the ministry’s land rights program due to a lack of transparency and sluggish reform pace.
By: F.T. ODHIAMBO
Date: January 21st 2016
Source: Standard Digital
The validity of the title deeds issued to the beneficiaries of Waitiki land in Mombasa County recently is suspect as the procedure used is not supported by any existing land law. Maybe this is because the process was actually the formalisation of an illegality to benefit those who had invaded the land.
Friday, November 20th, 2015
Indigenous communities in Peru must clear 27 bureaucratic hurdles to obtain official recognition and formal land titles, a costly process that can take more than a decade, while concessionaires face between three and seven bureaucratic steps, depending on whether they seek permits for logging or mining, and can obtain their paperwork in less than a year, according to a new study released today at an event in Paris.