Full Coverage: Land

12/29/2006 Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar, along with several activists of trade unions and civil society organisations, staged a sit-in outside the Banga Bhavan here on Thursday against alleged forcible acquisition of agriculture land for the Tatas to set up a car factory in Singur

12/28/2006 Inaugurating the Dalit-Minority International Conference in New Delhi on Wednesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said it was necessary to make a distinction between the problems faced by Dalits and those by minorities.

12/27/2006 The Housing and Land Rights Network works on promoting the human right to adequate housing among people in South Asia. Visit their website for information on the international legal aspects of human rights to shelters, housing and land. Also check out their reports and statements on the post-tsunami rehabilitation work.

12/26/2006

12/26/2006

12/26/2006

12/21/2006 Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Wednesday said market economy was here to stay but could not be relied upon for developmental tasks. "Land reforms will help reduce distress migration"

12/18/2006 December 10, 2006: Today the world celebrates the 58th anniversary of the UN Charter of Human Rights as the International Human Rights Day, but the people of Singur or Narmada or Raigad (Maharashtra), Dadri-Bajada (UP) cannot partake in these celebrations.

12/13/2006 On 12th November 2006, in a session jointly organised by CWLr and GLRF members and their associates, tribal women at the ISF demanded the retention of women’s land rights in communities where customary practice were favorable to women. They also sought support from the government for a tribal women’s resource right agenda both in urban and rural areas.

12/12/2006 The OSCE Presence in Albania and the country's Property Restitution and Compensation Agency (PRCA) today signed an agreement that provides technical and financial assistance to design an electronic database of requests for restitution and compensation of property since 1993.

12/01/2006 The government of Evo Morales and the indigenous social movements of Bolivia have won an historic victory with the passage of an agrarian reform law that calls for the “expropriation of lands” that “do not serve a just social-economic function.”