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Strategic Litigation Impacts: Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights

This comparative study, based on dozens of interviews in Kenya, Malaysia, and Paraguay, examines the ways indigenous communities and their advocates are using ...

Land Ownership Rights - LegalMatch

Landowner's rights include the right to occupy, use, transfer, and enjoy the land and exclude others from using it without permission.

Land Rights & Jurisdiction - Assembly of First Nations

We advocate for First Nations in claims and negotiations over rights to lands, territories, and resources.

Fighting for Land Rights with ActionAid USA

Land is life. ActionAid is fighting for land rights and supporting women, Indigenous peoples, and other marginalized groups to increase their access to and ...

#Land Rights | Front Line Defenders

Human rights defenders protecting their communities' rights to land – many of them indigenous leaders themselves – face threats from governmental, ...

Securing land rights secures a brighter future - Oxfam

Oxfam partner influences establishment of equitable land policies in Timor-Leste and empowers citizens to fight for their land rights.

Land Rights - Shift Project

15 cases of how companies are boosting their contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals by putting people first.

Indigenous and Community Land Rights

Communities and Indigenous Peoples are estimated to hold as much as 65% of the world's land area under customary systems.

Delinking Land Rights from Land Use: Certification and Migration in ...

Delinking Land Rights from Land Use: Certification and Migration in Mexico by Alain de Janvry, Kyle Emerick, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro and Elisabeth Sadoulet.

Access to Land and Tenure Security - Global Land Tool Network

GLTN develops tools to render access to land and tenure security more equitable and accessible to all, with special attention to the poor, women and the ...

Native American Lands | Ownership and Governance

Native American land ownership involves a complex patchwork of titles, restrictions, obligations, statutes, and regulations.

What is Right-of-Way? - | Indian Affairs

... lands like laying railroad tracks or creating access roads. Rights-of-Way on Tribal Trust Land. Two major components of the federal government's trust ...

Defining Customary Land Rights - Brookings Institution

What do we mean by 'Custom'? y In the majority of countries, most of the land is held under customary tenure - 90% in Africa.

Is There a Human Right to Land? - State of the Planet

Ask a human rights lawyer if there is a human right to land, however, and you might get a more ambiguous response. One common (and legalistic) ...

Rights of Way - Bureau of Land Management

Rights of Way A right of way authorizes specific use of parcels of public land for a specified period of time that is appropriate for the life of the ...

Land quality, land rights, and indigenous poverty - ScienceDirect.com

There is a U shape relationship between land quality and modern income across American Indian reservations.

Land Rights: Domestic Judges and International Law

Thus, the State or Government or any governmental institution does not have unfettered power to deny a person of his land rights for any and ...

Land Rights In Tanzania - The Nature Conservancy

In other words, it formalizes allocating parcels of village lands to individuals or groups. The collective nature of the title means that transactions and ...

Articles: Why are land rights important? - Tearfund Learn

Securing and protecting vulnerable people's land rights is essential for bringing about a fair and prosperous society.

Landright Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

noun : right or obligation connected with occupation of or property in land. Word History Etymology Old English landriht (akin to Old High German lantreht law ...