Pandemic upheaval creates ‘perfect storm’ for land rights abuses
Washington DC, USThomson Reuters Foundation From forced displacement to conflict over resources, the coronavirus pandemic has created a “perfect storm” for land rights abuses – and the situation is likely to worsen, researchers and activists warned on Thursday. The migration of men to rural areas due to lockdowns and job losses has increased competition over […]
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 […]