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Africa

November 6, 2018 Dispatches

South Africa’s Constitutional Court Protects Land Rights

Dewa Mavhinga
Director, Southern Africa
Africa

October 29, 2018 Dispatches

Witnessing Guinea’s Bauxite Mining Boom

Bruno Stagno Ugarte
Deputy Executive Director for Advocacy
Asia

October 22, 2018 Dispatches

Philippine Sugar Plantation Massacre

Carlos H. Conde
Researcher, Asia Division

News

October 15, 2018 Dispatches

Rural Women and Girls Sidelined

Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Researcher, Women's Rights Division
October 9, 2018 News Release

Sri Lanka: Government Slow to Return Land
October 4, 2018 News Release

Guinea: Bauxite Mining Boom Threatens Rights
September 27, 2018 Dispatches

Indonesia Pledges Accelerated Agrarian Reform

Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Researcher, Women's Rights Division
August 25, 2018 Dispatches

Misinformation Over South African Land Reform

Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Researcher, Women's Rights Division
August 6, 2018 Commentary

Farmer-Herder Conflicts on the Rise in Africa

Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Researcher, Women's Rights Division

Published In: Inter Press Service (IPS) News Agency
July 17, 2018 News Release

Myanmar: Farmers Seek Return of Seized Land
March 27, 2018 Commentary

Zambia Should Protect Customary Land Rights

Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Researcher, Women's Rights Division

Published In: Times of Zambia
November 15, 2017 Commentary

How Commercial Farms Are Ripping Apart Zambian Communities

Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Researcher, Women's Rights Division

Published In: Place
October 25, 2017 News Release

Zambia: Commercial Farms Displace Rural Communities
October 20, 2017 Commentary

“We slept out in the open air like wild animals”

Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Researcher, Women's Rights Division

Published In: Al Jazeera
August 14, 2017 Statement

Joint Statement on the First Anniversary of the Grossly Unjust Imprisonment of Land Activist and Human Rights Defender Tep Vanny
February 7, 2017 Statement

Cambodia: Drop Farcical Investigation of Human Rights Defenders
January 24, 2017 News Release

Zimbabwe: Widows Deprived of Property Rights
October 14, 2016 Dispatches

African Women Scale Heights in Land Rights Protest

Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Researcher, Women's Rights Division
August 17, 2016 Dispatches

Why Liberia Needs to Protect Land Rights

Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Researcher, Women's Rights Division
August 9, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Protecting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Researcher, Women's Rights Division
April 19, 2013 News Release

World Bank: Commit to Rights in 2030 Vision
March 11, 2011 Commentary

Erasing Links to the Land in the Negev

Noga Malkin

Published In: Foreign Policy
February 4, 2010 News Release

Kenya: Landmark Ruling on Indigenous Land Rights
March 19, 2009 Commentary

Women's Land Rights Can Help Battle Hunger in Africa

Liesl Gerntholtz
Executive Director, Women's Rights Division

Published In: The Boston Globe

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October 9, 2018

“Why Can’t We Go Home?”

Military Occupation of Land in Sri Lanka
October 4, 2018

“What Do We Get Out of It?”

The Human Rights Impact of Bauxite Mining in Guinea
July 17, 2018

“Nothing for Our Land”

Impact of Land Confiscation on Farmers in Myanmar

Genocide Took Place in Cambodia: Daily Brief

Daily Brief

November 16, 2018

Genocide took place in Cambodia; France should step up on Yemen conflict; UN Security Council must address Uyghurs in China visit; the need for a UN investigation into Khashoggi murder; Angola must stop abusive deportations of migrants; European Court of Human Rights rules against Russia's arrests of opposition leader; European Parliament pressures Vietnam to improve human rights ahead of trade agreement; and some good news about girls education in Afghanistan.