Record Item Year: 2012

Human Rights Watch Report

The first part of the report looks at the impact of land grabbing on communities and highlights three issues: that women’s rights to land are not being protected in practice; that communities do not have secure land tenure, which is adversely affecting their food security; and that the priorities of foreign investors are outweighing those of local people. The second part of the report contains 24 country reviews that examine the strengths and weaknesses of each country’s regulatory frameworks, assessing their ability to: provide legislative protection for communities at national and local levels from land grabs; guarantee gender equality at […]

The paper builds on joint work by ActionAid and its local partners through the Women’s Land Rights (WOLAR) project, funded by the MDG3 Fund. It is informed by engagement of Southern African rural women’s networks and associations with the land grabbing issue. Also drawing heavily on field research in Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia carried out by Nidhi Tandon.

In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress.

Inter Press Service (IPS) News Agency

The source of this link is Constitute. The Constitute Project provides the World's constitutions (in English) to read, search and compare.

The source of this link is Constitute. The Constitute Project provides the World's constitutions (in English) to read, search and compare.