Road to Securing Community Lands in Kenya
By Karen Chen
Record Item Year: 2020
Group Ranches and the Community Land Act: Will We Correct Mistakes of the Past or Repeat Them?
By Karen Chen
Expansion of the General Budget of State Income and Expenditures for Fiscal Year 2020 (Decree No. 20-2020)
By Karen Chen
Law Establishing the National Land Cadaster (Law No. 52-2020) [National Land Register]
By Karen Chen
Republic of Congo Forestry Code (Law No. 33-2020)
By Karen Chen
Land Act (Act 1036)
By Karen Chen
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Law Establishing Rules on Protection, Promotion and Development of the Indigenous, and Creating the National Indigenous Development Corporation (Law No. 19253) [mod. 2020]
By Karen Chen
Laos Civil Code
By Karen Chen
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) assisted in establishing Laos’ first ever civil code. It was enforced May 27, 2020. The document is an unofficial translation in English.
CONTINUE READING Laos Civil Code 1 min read
Methods for Measuring Women’s Empowerment
By Karen Chen
Impacts of Resettlement on Women’s Land Tenure Security
By digitalthing
This paper seeks to assess the effectiveness of the existing legal framework to protect women’s land rights in the face of hydro power-driven resettlement in Laos PDR. Specifically, it seeks to answer the research question, “In Laos, how effective are the resettlement, land laws and policies and related safeguards at ensuring gender-equitable results?”