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The Right to Land

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
Following in the footsteps of local-to-global advocacy led by international agrarian movements, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) marks significant departures from the established human rights canon.
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Development of Land Rights and Land Rights Restrictions

2022
Interdisciplinary Academic and Research Journal, 2, 1 ...
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Rights in Land

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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Securing land rights for women

Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2010
Abstract 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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The politics of land property rights

Journal of Institutional Economics, 2019
AbstractLegal reforms that improve the security of private property rights to land have characteristics of a public good with dispersed benefits. However, nothing ensures that the state will provide property protection as a public good. Some states provide property protection selectively to powerful groups.
Meina Cai, Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Murtazashvili   +2 more
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Indonesian Land Rights and Development

2014
Indonesia’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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Land Rights and Women’s Rights in Morocco

History of the Present, 2021
AbstractOver the last two decades, women leaders known as sulāliyāt from various parts of rural and semiurban Morocco, have been in the vanguard of local contestations over the privatization of communally held land. The stand taken by these rural women against neoliberal privatization policies sometimes puts them in direct confrontation with urban ...
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Women’s Land Rights in Zimbabwe

Issue, 1994
This 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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Land Rights as Proprietary Rights

2016
This 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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Land, scarcity, and property rights

2018
Scarcity of land is the result of a political process. Only goods and services that are used up through consumption (subtractability) can become scarce (Ostrom et al. 1994). 1 Scarcity is usually thought to be found in situations where limited resources are confronted with demands (or needs) that outreach the available supply.
Hartmann, Thomas, Gerber, Jean David
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