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2020
This chapter considers property in land. Property rights in land, compared to property rights in chattels, are not very ‘paradigmatic’ of property rights. Rights in land are much more varied than rights in chattels or most kinds of intangible property. Because of that it is difficult, both historically and theoretically, to identify what ‘ownership’ of
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This chapter considers property in land. Property rights in land, compared to property rights in chattels, are not very ‘paradigmatic’ of property rights. Rights in land are much more varied than rights in chattels or most kinds of intangible property. Because of that it is difficult, both historically and theoretically, to identify what ‘ownership’ of
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Land Rights as Proprietary Rights
2016This chapter examines how human rights law has sought to addresses indigenous peoples' land claims through two angles: first under the banner of proprietary rights and second by dealing with the past through the notion of reparation and restitution. Even though, under international law, provisions concerning property rights do not specifically focus on
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Securing land rights for women
Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2010Abstract This collection of papers on Securing Women's Land Rights presents five articles relating to eastern Africa. Four of these illustrate practical approaches to securing land rights for women in distinct situations: law-making for women's land rights (Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda); land tenure reform in practice (Rwanda); women's rights under ...
Daley, Elizabeth, Englert, Birgit
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Indonesian Land Rights and Development
2014Indonesia’s traditional land tenure system, called adat, satisfied the needs of many generations, but did not provide certainty or formal legal relationships conducive to development. The post-independence government has sought to mold the existing system into a more modern form that would better aid its development and has at the same time, sought to ...
Gold, Martin E., Zuckerman, Russell B.
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Property Rights, Land Rights, and Environmental Rights
1996Abstract Philosophers, lawyers, and politicians have justified the existence and protection of private individual property almost as often and as vehemently as they have criticized it. The justification of private property was discussed by the Greek philosophers and the classical Roman lawyers, but in a fundamental sense this debate ...
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2007
Introduction It was not until the latter part of the twentieth century that efforts were made to seriously consider land claims of indigenous peoples and to work towards their resolution. During the 1996 Commission Drafting Group, a representative of the indigenous communities of the Pacific expressed the general position of indigenous peoples ...
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Introduction It was not until the latter part of the twentieth century that efforts were made to seriously consider land claims of indigenous peoples and to work towards their resolution. During the 1996 Commission Drafting Group, a representative of the indigenous communities of the Pacific expressed the general position of indigenous peoples ...
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Women’s Land Rights in Zimbabwe
Issue, 1994This paper focuses on the issue of human rights with respect to women’s land rights in Zimbabwe. The concept of human rights is particularly pertinent because of the debates on land reform and the activities of the land Commission exploring possibilities for the reform of land use in Zimbabwe.
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Indigenous Peoples' Right to Land
Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Online, 2004This article discusses the land rights of indigenous peoples based on relevant human rights conventions. The article is divided into three parts. First, articles 1 and 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights are discussed in relation to land rights of indigenous peoples. Then, land rights under the ILO Convention No.
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The Church and Indigenous Land Rights: Pitjantjatjara Land Rights in Australia
Missiology: An International Review, 1986In this article the author, whose experience in cross-cultural communication as a missionary was used by a group of Australian Aboriginal people among whom he had worked to interpret their demand for title to their traditional land, outlines aspects of the traditional life of the Pitjantjatjara people and their conception of their relation to the land.
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