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Indigenous Peoples' Right to Land

Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Online, 2004
This 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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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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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 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 Rights, Land Reform, Land Improvement

1984
Plans to increase agricultural productions have two sides: the technical, which covers the improvement of water supplies and the adoption of high-yielding varieties of crop and the fertilizers, pesticides, and so on, on which the high yields depend, and the legal, that is the rules determining the cultivator’s access to the land.
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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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Reforming Land Rights in Africa [PDF]

, 2004
This brief presents an overview of land tenure and other land rights reforms that have been introduced in Africa to address issues of agricultural production efficiency, natural resource sustainability, and equity of access to and control over land resources by marginalized groups such as rural households and women, and the efficacy of these reforms in
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Property Rights, Land Rights, and Environmental Rights

1996
Abstract 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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Human Rights as Land Rights in the Pacific

Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies, 1993
Do human rights in their conventional, Western understanding really meet the needs of Pacific peoples? This article argues that land rights are a better clue to those needs. In Aboriginal Australia, Fiji, West Papua and Papua New Guinea, case studies show that people's relationship to land is religious and implicitly theological. The article therefore
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Land rights

2023
Mina Manuchehri, Beth Roberts
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