Full Coverage: Land

29.05.2006 Reacting to reported plans by the Government of Pakistan to demolish thousands of dwellings and evict their inhabitants as part of a massive construction project, a United Nations human rights expert today called for a halt to operations as well as stepped-up efforts to avert homelessness as a result of the initiative.

26.05.2006 La madrugada del nueves, alrededor de la una a.m., fueron detenidos por el Ejército miembros de la Dirección Nacional y de la Dirección Regional de Barinas, pertenecientes al Frente Nacional campesino Ezequiel Zamora (FNCEZ), mediante un allanamiento sorpresivo...

19.05.2006 Land is one of the most important assets for millions of poor people in Africa. Equally critical are their rights to this land, which provide social and economic security and an incentive to use natural resources in a sustainable manner.

18.05.2006 The US expressed concern at the escalating tension in Sri Lanka with the LTTE violating the spirit of ceasefire, hinting at working together with other countries to choke cash inflows to the outfit.

16.05.2006 Domenica 14 maggio i tre Mapuche e l'attivista in sciopero della fame da ormai 64 giorni hanno interrotto la loro protesta in seguito alla firma di un accordo che prevede la discussione di un progetto di legge che permetterebbe loro di accedere alla libertà vigilata. Alla stesura e firma dell'accordo hanno partecipato anche quattro garanti, e cioè i senatori Alejandro Navarro e Jaime Naranjo, il lonko José Cariqueo e il vescovo di Temuco Monsignor Manuel Calmilo Vial. I quattro attivisti avevano iniziato lo sciopero della fame perchè condannati a dieci anni di carcere con l'accusa di aver appiccato un incendio in un fondo forestale: le autorità cilene hanno applicato nel caso delle proteste Mapuche le obsolete leggi antiterrorismo della dittatura di Pinochet. La protesta dei quattro detenuti aveva avuto come prima ripercussione una spaccatura all’interno del blocco di governo. Il 10 maggio scorso le organizzazioni Mapuches avevano convocato una veglia di solidarietà e protesta davanti al palazzo della Moneda e nello stesso giorno una manifestazione studentesca è stata repressa con violenza a Temuco con l'arresto di un'ottantina di giovani tra cui molti minorenni.

11.05.2006 Women in Kalinga Nagar in the east Indian state of Orissa have now taken over the reins of the agitation against the building of a steel plant in, where 13 tribal protestors were killed in police firing on a group of anti-displacement protestors on January 2, 2006. Women from 16 villages have resolved to continue their fight for survival and human dignity.

09.05.2006 The policy is to transform Indian agriculture into large-scale corporate industrial farming; Farmers to be trained in low cost ecological organic farming and farm organisations planning countrywide movement.

04.05.2006 As the central government prepares to put together a package to address the phenomenon of suicides among farmers, EPW special issue examines the incidence of suicides, the proximate causes and the deep-rooted problems in agriculture.

01.05.2006

photo: Shivani Chaudhry

On 30th May, 2006, at the end of a sultry day, about 200 activists gathered for a candlelight vigil at Jantar Mantar, the spot where NBA (Narmada Bachao Aandolan) activists had staged a fast unto death protesting the raising of the Sardar Sarovar Dam across the Narmada and submerging approximately 226 villages without ensuring adequate rehabilitation for approximately 35,000 families as claimed by the NBA.

01.05.2006 Displacement is a planned calamity that befalls certain sections of society at different points in time. In a scenario where the attention devoted to rehabilitation itself is limited, it is not surprising that women stand to lose the most and benefit the least from so called ‘development’ projects. Displacement usually results in deteriorating gender relations in a framework of increasing poverty and disempowerment of poor and vulnerable communities.