Full Coverage: Land

26.05.2004 A partir dos dados coligidos em todo o Brasil pela Comissão Pastoral da Terra - CPT – é possível acompanhar a evolução das lutas sociais no campo brasileiro.

26.05.2004 Farm expropriation is one possible approach to land reform for the Namibian government, but vague and contradictory statements are creating negative sentiment. The government has a host of other options, according to a report by WindhoekÂ’s Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)

24.05.2004 With the monsoons approaching in Sri Lanka, illegal gem mining is again threatening the lives of impoverished locals in the flood prone, gem-rich district of Ratnapura, where 60 people were buried by landslides induced by unchecked excavations last year.

10.05.2004 The Ministry of the Interior (MUP) said, in its press-release, the it will continue with the construction works on the asylum seekers centre, located in the former military barracks in Stubicka Slatina. It marks the contunuation of the efforts on the behalf of Croatian Government to fulfill the requirements for EU accession, and to provide the conditions for implementation of the Law on Asylum, which will enter into force on July 1, 2004.

06.05.2004 In a dramatic new development, Somalian supermodel Iman has quit as the public 'face' of De Beers. The announcement comes two years after Survival International began targeting Iman to halt her involvement with the multi-national diamond company. De Beers controls diamond mining in Botswana, and the diamond deposits on the Bushmen's land are believed by many to be behind the government's decision to evict the Bushmen from their ancestral land and place them in bleak relocation centres.