Land Matters Media Scan – 24 October 2016

Reports and Publications

1. Afghanistan: Improving ways to settle water disputes key to economic growth, avoiding conflict – new UN report (10/23/16)
   Source: UN News Centre
2. Related: Liberia: GVL Rejects Global Witness Claim (10/21/16)
   Source: AllAfrica / Daily Observer
3. Related: Liberia: the growth of a new palm oil frontier (10/20/16)
   Source: The Guardian

Global

1. Promoting Land Rights to Empower Rural Women and End Poverty (10/14/16)
   Source: World Bank
2. Advancing women’s land and resource rights (10/14/16)
   Source: World Bank
3. World’s slum dwellers, homeless must be protected with right to housing: UN expert (10/19/16)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
4. How are Coca-Cola and PepsiCo stacking up on land rights? (10/20/16)
   Source: Oxfam
5. Related: Reviewing Coca-Cola and PepsiCo’s land assessments in Brazil (10/20/16)
   Source: Oxfam
6. Obstacles to forest tenure reform deeply rooted in the past (10/20/16)
   Source: CIFOR blog

Africa

1. African Women Scale Heights in Land Rights Protest (10/14/16)
   Source: Human Rights Watch
2. Uganda’s nomadic herders feed the country, but under pressure to settle down – activist (10/21/16)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
3. Tanzania: Modern Map Equipment Expected to Reduce Land Conflicts (10/21/16)
   Source: AllAfrica / Tanzania Daily News
4. Nigeria: Endless Fight Over Land (10/20/16)
   Source: AllAfrica / This Day
5. Related: Women push Kaimenyi into action on their rights to land (10/18/16)
   Source: The Star

Americas

1. Nicaragua Dispute Over Indigenous Land Erupts in Wave of Killings (10/16/16)
   Source: New York Times

Asia

1. India: Dalit man kills himself in western India as protest over land rights widens (10/20/16)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation