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Shadow Report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women Democratic Republic of Congo

The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) made a submission to the UN Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of...

Developed by an ESCR-Net Member

Colombia: comply with the results of popular consultations

The following petition has been initiated by ESCR-Net members Comité Ambiental en Defensa de la Vida and International Network of Human Rights (RIDH) who invite any member of ESCR-Net or the public to add their signature in support. Señor JUAN MANUEL SANTOS CALDERON President of the Republic of...

Residents of Narmada Valley protest forced evictions prior to adequate resettlement and rehabilitation

Lok Shakti Abhiyan joined the wider leadership of the National Alliance of Peoples Movements (NAPM) to call on...

Mapping study on Women's Rights related to land, housing and natural resources

The Women and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Working Group (WESCR WG) of ESCR-Net undertook an analytical report in relation to housing, land and natural resources (HLNR)...

Developed thanks to the collective work of ESCR-Net Members

Asian regional dialogue on women’s rights and natural resources

ESCR-Net member IWRAW-AP together with Cambodian Women’s Crisis Centre and Gender and Development for Cambodia (GADC), co-organized a “...

Understanding, preventing and solving land conflicts

This guide has been written for all those practitioners who are confronted with land conflicts in the course of their work or are in a position to prevent them and/or include land governance as one pillar in post-conflict policies. It aims to broaden the understanding of the...

Kedar Nath Yadav v. State of West Bengal & Others, Civil Appeal No. 8438 of 2016

Supreme Court of India issues decision to protect land rights

In 2006, the Government of West Bengal agreed to let Tata Motors Ltd. (Tata Motors) construct and operate a car manufacturing unit in their state (Small Car Project). Accordingly, the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation, Ltd. (WBIDC) acquired approximately 1000 acres of agricultural land for the project pursuant to the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (L.A. Act), affecting the livelihoods of approximately 25,000 people – farmers, sharecroppers, landless laborers, and rickshaw pullers. The claimants in this case were five farmers and small landowners.