Informal settlements: Mass demolitions, evictions as Nigeria continues housing push
KELECHUKWU IRUOMA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how evictions have ramped up over the past five years as the government in clears informal settlements to build new homes for a rapidly growing population….
India’s ‘invisible’ women hope for recognition at farmers protests
Mumbai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Legions of women have trekked to India’s capital to join massive protests against agricultural reforms, hoping not only to protect their livelihoods but also win visibility as farmers. About 75 per cent of rural women in India who work full-time are farmers, Oxfam says, with numbers rising as men migrate to […]
From Brazil to Kenya, coronavirus widows lose their husbands and then their land
Johannesburg, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation Widows across the globe are being evicted, forced to give up property or to marry male relatives after their husbands die from the new coronavirus, land rights experts said on Tuesday. Women often only earn legal or socially recognised rights to land and property through a husband or father, which […]
India’s rural poor may lose out as drones map village land
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation A government plan to map residential areas in rural India and issue title deeds could benefit hundreds of millions of people, but exclude lower-caste communities and those traditionally denied land, human rights experts said on Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week unveiled ‘Swamitva Yojana’, or ‘Ownership Scheme’, to map rural […]
Indigenous people left landless as traditional farming wanes in north-east India
Shillong, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Tribal people in north-eastern India are increasingly becoming landless and poor as their traditional farming practices are abandoned in favour of commercial plantations, Indigenous experts warned last week. “Jhum” is the practice by tribal groups in the north-eastern states of rotating land use for temporary farming, resulting in parts of forest […]
“FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS”: VULNERABLE US HOMEOWNERS OVERLOOKED AFTER DISASTERS
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
GENDER EQUALITY: MALAWIAN WOMEN STRUGGLE FOR LAND RIGHTS
MADALITSO KATETA, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the struggle for land rights among women in the African nation of Malawi…
India grants land ownership rights to refugees who fled Pakistan 70 years ago
Thomson Reuters Foundation Refugees in India’s western state of Maharashtra have been granted land ownership rights 70 years after fleeing what is now Pakistan, when the countries were violently partitioned at independence, officials said. The move is part of a wider push to give more rights to certain refugee groups in different parts of India. […]