Privatisation “wave” hurts poor as pandemic heightens risks
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation A push to privatise land and other resources in countries from Ukraine to Papua New Guinea is hurting Indigenous people and the rural poor, while increasing the risks linked to climate change, researchers at a US-based thinktank said on Tuesday. From a rise in deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, a push […]
Uganda wants people to leave flooded wetlands – and not come back
Entebbe, UgandaThomson Reuters Foundation For the last decade, Silus Musasizi has lived on a wetland on the shores of Lake Victoria. For most of that time, Uganda’s government has been trying to chase him away. Now, it is the water itself that has driven him from his small house on the edge of Entebbe, […]
Widows of suicide farmers to get land titles in Indian state
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Land titles of farmers who kill themselves in an Indian state will be given to their widows, according to a government order, granting inheritance equality in a nation where their property rights are often denied. A Maharashtra State Government order issued last week said the widows would also receive assistance with […]
Refugees in India’s West Bengal get land titles amid citizenship row
Thomson Reuters Foundation Authorities in India’s West Bengal state have given land titles to about 30,000 refugees who have lived in settlement colonies for years, and promised that thousands more will also get property rights, as a row over their citizenship intensifies. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee handed the title deeds on Monday, and said those […]