Housing and land rights

Land and property rights

Land property ownership rights

quot An important issue is the relationship between the land rights of minorities and equality of rights, including equal rights to the land.

States own land, mineral rights, and infrastructure.

Protesters decry land rights violations in Cambodia.

Often these are linked to collective rights, or rights to land and resources.

The rights to private waters in Latvia result from the rights to land.

A customary land grant entitles applicants user rights as opposed to property rights.

Specifically, the Forestry Act (1991) recognizes customary landowner rights to ownership of land and forest produce and rights to use of the land.

The Minority Rights Group makes a descriptive survey of the problems of land rights, and traditional land tenure systems faced by minority groups.

Land rights activist Cấn Thị Thêu before her arrest.

girls and boys Land property ownership rights for women

Expert meeting on land rights and claims of indigenous people

The Central Land Commission reviews appeals of lower level local government decisions regarding the land ownership rights and claims regarding rural and urban land.

On State land and on reindeer grazing land, hunting and fishing rights had been extended to non Sami when the rights of the Sami were not affected.

Land and resource rights and recognition of traditional forest related knowledge

Land and resource rights and recognition of traditional forest related knowledge

The linkage between land rights and economic, social and cultural rights deserves further attention at the international level.

Under the law, men and women have equal rights to land use.

These rights are meaningless without sufficient land over which to exercise them.

Legal recognition and implementation of women's rights to adequate housing and land

The government also promises land and hunting rights in the surrounding states.

The reports raise the issue of pastoral land rights from the point of view of access to forest and pastoral land.

The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel does not mean disregarding the rights of others in the land.

Recognize and respect the traditional land rights and traditional occupations of indigenous people.

Women and Land Rights in Resettlement Areas in Zimbabwe WLSA educational pamphlet 1994

The Constitution, Land Law and Law on Marriage and Family provide for equal rights of men and women over land (See Article 15).

Lack of recognition of indigenous peoples, inadequate land and resource rights on national level

In fact, women remain passive and have few opportunities in land allocation due to their lack of understanding of rights and responsibilities over land.

The law on contracted land leasing in rural areas in China protected women's rights to leased land in the event of marriage or divorce.

In particular, it would be useful to explore whether indigenous peoples' struggles for land rights could benefit from a housing rights perspective.

16.20 Matrimonial property laws are more applicable to women who live in towns or who have rights in non custom land or leased custom land.

Nagla Al Imam First of all, they violate our rights, and they rape the land.

Women still have less access to land in rural areas because of discriminatory inheritance rights.

Legal recognition and implementation of women's rights to adequate housing and land 70 71 20

Some legislation recognizes the land rights of indigenous peoples and protects them against forced relocation.

As noted above, promotion of legal literacy can help women obtain their fair land rights.

Land mines are an economic development issue, a human rights issue and an environmental issue.

There is first the problem of environmental damage caused to the land of indigenous peoples, with an impact on the enjoyment of their land rights and with implications for a wide variety of their personal rights.

Guam land disputes, therefore, are about resolving conflicting interests in land about property rights and duties about civil rights as Americans understand them and about the enforcement of contract law as practised in the United States.

The issue of land rights for those in forest areas was one the Government took very seriously, and a comprehensive land reform exercise was under way.

Under the Land Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, men and women are given identical powers to possess, exercise, or dispose of their own land rights.

Land was relatively abundant and allocated by tribal chiefs without regard to Western style property rights.

However, colonialism, patriarchal individual titling systems and land market pressures have eroded customary collective property rights.