The Long Read: For widows in Africa, COVID-19 stole husbands, homes, future
KRISTA LARSON and CHINEDU ASADU, of Associated Press, report on the hardships facing widows in countries across Africa…
“A source of support”: Thirty years on, women-only village inspires land equality in rural Kenya
DOMINIC KIRUI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from a village in Kenya that’s provided a refuge for women survivors of sexual assault and is now also leading the charge in providing them with land rights…
Postcards: Zimbabwe divorce law spurs women’s fight for property
LUNGELO NDHLOVU, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
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, […]
“No man’s land”: Delhi’s urban villages face uncertain future
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from India…
No title, no problem: Land rights with digital maps, social media
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how new technologies are being employed in the fight for land rights for those without formal documentation…
Elderly black women in South Africa win property rights in landmark ruling
Johannesburg, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation Facing destitution when her marriage broke down, 72-year-old Agnes Sithole went to court to challenge a sexist law – and won not only a share of her husband’s property but a legal victory that will protect some 400,000 other black South African women. Under South African law, married couples own […]
LAND RIGHTS: TENSION HEATS UP BETWEEN CHURCH AND VILLAGERS AMID LAND OWNERSHIP DEBATE
UMBERTO BACCHI, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Georgia…
WOW!: OUT OF COURT – UGANDANS TURN TO “BAREFOOT LAWYERS” TO SETTLE LAND DISPUTES
LIAM TAYLOR, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a Ugandan non-profit is helping people did with property rights issues…
Noisy birds to holograms, eight curious property rights debates in 2019
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Fights over property rights extended to pavements, space, the sea, data, dead people’s images, and even noises and smells in 2019, with governments scrambling to define and legislate emerging areas of concern. At the same time, deadly conflicts raged over land and water with at least 108 people killed trying to […]