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Post by post:
- Minority self-determination in China and the demolition of Kashgar
- In search of a duty-bearer: No remedy for destruction of property during Kosovo’s international supervision
- FAO global guidelines on tenure of land, forests and fisheries adopted
- Redress without fault? UN to promote ‘automatic’ state reparations for terrorist attacks
- Sustainable but inconvenient – Two more folkways slide closer to the edge
- From shelter to housing: New NRC report on tenure security and displacement
- The Economist on land and natural resources in Southeast Asia
- Vivianna Nyroos
- Warming up for Eurovision in Baku
- R.I.P. COHRE?
- Online books on land law in Africa
- Foreign Affairs on Syria and the Alawites
- Local governance in Somalia – New emperor in old clothes?
- The Arab Spring – updated challenges and outdated responses
- Guest posting announcements and updates – Focus on Somalia, Colombia, Kosovo, Bolivia and Ecuador
- Somebody pinch me
- Bosnia twenty years on
- An inconvenient forum: Thoughts on the Chevron-Ecuador Case
- Nicholas Fromherz to guest-post on the Chevron-Ecuador case
- Costing stability against freedom: The minority dilemma in Syria and Iraq
- Addressing systemic obstacles to restitution in Kosovo: Legal aid as a fact finding tool
- Back to the Balkans – upcoming guest postings on restitution issues in Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo
- Musicians abused in Eurovision host-city
- The World Bank on ‘sleaze timber’
- Eurovision in Baku: Should the European Broadcasting Union care about human rights?
- FAO Voluntary Guidelines on land, fisheries and forestry governance near approval
- Euroviction: Azerbaijan demolishes homes for a song (contest)
- Pinheiro and the political philosophers: Achieving justice through post-conflict property restitution
- Look before you legislate? The challenges facing restitution in Libya
- The ADB involuntary resettlement policy: Fifteen years on, the poorest still bear the brunt of development
- From National Responsibility to Response – Part II: IDPs’ Housing, Land and Property Rights
- From National Responsibility to Response – Part I: General Conclusions on IDP Protection
- Waking from a dream in Bolivia: The TIPNIS victory that never was
- Upcoming guest postings by the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement
- Nicholas Fromherz to guest post on the Bolivia TIPNIS debate
- New report on railway rehabilitation and displacement in Cambodia – Natalie Bugalski to guest-post
- Humanitarian spacebook
- TN turns two!
- Investment-related conflict in South Sudan: contested rights and the power of information
- New report on the ‘global land grab’ – and guest-posting by David Deng
- A roundup of international law debates
- Someday, none of this will be yours: the predatory state eyes ‘public’ land
- Promoting equity through improved urban state land governance
- Mixed signals on citizenship
- Proposals to allow private ownership of First Nations’ land spur debate in Canada
- Judicial oversight and the end of displacement in Colombia
- Upcoming TN guest-postings in early 2012
- A year in the life of a blog – 2011
- Happy Holidays!
- The Lisbon Treaty comes home to roost in Western Sahara
- Consultancy on the HLP rights of internally displaced women in Iraq
- Week in links – Week 50/2011 – Durban, Wukan, Tawergha, Hoima
- Land issues at the core of ethnic violence and internal displacement in north-east India
- Redressing the ‘Endorois Case’ violations or replicating them?
- Week in links – Week 49/2011
- Back to business as usual in Cambodia?
- Week in links – Week 48/2011
- We are here! post-Thanksgiving musings on minority conflicts and political participation
- Understanding the outcomes of customary justice: implications for land practitioners
- Guest-posting by Erica Harper on new IDLO customary justice books
- Dark Lord of the Sith joins the global land rush
- New book on high value natural resources and peace building
- Forced resettlement of Bedouins
- Briefing on property issues in southern Kyrgyzstan
- Week in links – week 44/2011 – restitution in Libya, privatization in Cuba, assimilation in Israel
- Week in links – week 43/2011
- Sweeter the second time around? Self-determination gets another chance
- NRC consultancy on customary land dispute resolution in South Sudan
- Week in links – week 42/2011: land disputes in Bolivia, India, Kyrgyzstan and the UK
- When do home and property part ways? New paper on the ECHR and the Cyprus property question
- Innovations in forced eviction series #3: China
- More Arab than Spring?
- Bolivia road protests continue
- Avoiding conflict through early and effective management of land disputes
- Upcoming guest posts: (1) post-disaster rights to housing, and (2) land in conflict prevention
- Serbia masters the difference between restitution and restitution
- The ‘grin nervously’ school of large-scale land dispute management
- Call for papers – World Bank 2012 Conference on Land and Poverty
- Oxfam on the global land rush – UPDATED
- Week in links – Week 37/2011: Palestinian statehood and other matters
- Sweden versus social and economic human rights? Part 2: The right to water
- USIP HLP course and NRC HLP position (for francophones)
- The view from Sarajevo, 12 September 2001
- Sweden versus social and economic human rights? Part 1: Benchmarking human rights
- Sweden versus social and economic human rights … what gives?
- Web-based education tool aims to mainstream land rights into international development thinking
- Week in Links – Week 33/2011: Ethnic engineering in Osh, privatization in Havana
- Cambodia: Resolution of Boeung Kak Lake dispute in sight
- Breaking news: World Bank funding to Cambodia frozen over forced evictions in Phnom Penh
- Introducing the Journal of Internal Displacement
- Week in links – Week 30/2011
- IFRC meeting on post-disaster shelter issues
- Good morning South Sudan
- Week in links – Week 24/2011: murder in Colombia, biofuels in Sierra Leone
- Housing, land and property issues obstruct integration of IDPs in protracted displacement
- Colombia’s Victims’ Law enacted – Last stand or new beginning for programmatic property restitution?
- New report on protracted internal displacement – Nadine Walicki to guest post on HLP issues and local integration
- Note from the field: Colombia’s new Victims’ Law in context
- Week in links – Week 22/2011
- Colombia passes a Victim’s Law promising land restitution and broader redress
- Squatters, IDPs or both? Untangling urban displacement in Liberia
- Week in links – Week 21/2011
- With me or against us? The Economist mourns the passing of the rugged individual right
- Week in links – Week 19/2011
- How do you steer a land rush?
- They know the solution – Land purchase programs for rural women in India
- Week in links – Week 18/2011
- Kyrgyzstan Inquiry Commission – Osh riots resulted in crimes against humanity
- Week in links – week 17/2011
- What’s in a border?
- Next steps in Cambodia
- Yugoslavia Tribunal issues Gotovina judgment – discriminatory property laws deemed persecution
- Week in links – week 15/2011
- Managing pastureland in Central Asia: the importance of locally legitimate law reform
- Europe and Central Asia housing forum
- Week in links – week 12/2011
- Land in Liberia
- World Bank land conference next month
- Week in links – week 10/2011
- World Bank Management Report on Cambodia acknowledges past mistakes and future challenges
- Breaking news: World Bank Board to act on Cambodia report
- The week in links – week 09/2011
- Clearing the way forward: mine action and post-conflict land issues
- Another dimension of the Arab unrest: Its the land, stupid
- Available land? The Economist special report on global food security
- Libya on the edge
- ‘Bosnia Remade’ and beyond
- Bosnia update: political crisis, partition proposals and property claims
- Land, power and identity in complex cross-border areas: Eastern DRC
- Bridging the scholar-practitioner gap with dialogue: Megan J. Ballard responds to Massimo Moratti
- The Onion on Egypt
- Week in Links – Week 06/2011: Food prices, injustice and Egypt
- Happy Birthday TN!
- Evictions and cookie cutter approaches to restitution: a response to Megan J. Ballard
- Regional advocacy on the UN human rights mapping exercise in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Upcoming guest-postings on Bosnia by Massimo Moratti and Gerard Toal
- Upcoming guest-postings on Democratic Republic of Congo by Chris Huggins and Shane Quinn
- We interrupt the post-9/11 world order to bring you Egypt
- FAO forum on on land tenure and international investments in agriculture
- Jon Unruh to guest-post on new guidelines on land rights and demining
- Week in links – Week 3/2011
- Choosing in the absence of choice: Protracted displacement and integration
- Week in links – Week 2/2011
- Revisiting uti possidetis: Is Southern Sudan’s referendum scarier if it succeeds?
- Week in links – Week 1/2011
- Tracking aid in Cambodia: Monitoring the resettlement impacts of the Railways Rehabilitation Project
- Looking forward to 2011!
- Three articles on indigenous land rights issues
- Week in links – Week 46/2010
- The Pinheiro Principles take a licking (and keep on ticking?)
- Reminder – 2nd USIP Course on ‘Land, Property and Conflict’
- IDMC report: Colombia restitution bill represents significant progress but concerns remain
- New guest postings – Sebastián Albuja on Colombia restitution & Natalie Bugalski on Cambodia resettlement
- Behind the miner rescue headlines in Chile – a new settlement with the Mapuche
- Week in links – Week 43/2010
- UN Secretary General urged to address Cambodia evictions
- Note on ECtHR Decision in Demopoulos v. Turkey
- The week in links – week 41/2010
- Second USIP ‘Land, Property and Conflict Course’ coming in December
- ODI releases ‘Uncharted Territory’ chapters for free download
- The Body Shop drops Colombian palm oil supplier for alleged land grabbing
- The week in links – week 40/2010
- More on the new Colombia restitution bill
- The week in links – week 39/2010
- Good fences make good neighbors?
- International standards governing evictions from public properties
- The week in links – week 38/2010
- Sebastián Albuja on the Colombia restitution bill
- Restitution gets a fresh chance in Colombia
- The Onion on Afghanistan natural resources
- Endless summer?
- Global online competition – land rights and formalization
- Happy World Humanitarian Day!
- The World Bank struggles with its resettlement policy in Cambodia
- Upcoming guest-posting by Natalie Bugalski on Cambodia
- Guardian preview of World Bank report on the Global Land Rush
- Supreme Court of Brazil to rule over Quilombo communities’ rights to land – arguments for a protective approach
- The gloves come off – the Boeung Kak land dispute and the demise of the LMAP in Cambodia
- Admin note – FAO on Haitian agriculture and upcoming guest-blog on the Quilombos case in Brazil
- Haiti post-quake land issues emerge into the mainstream debate – UPDATED
- TN at five months
- Note on the UN Register of Damage for the Occupied Palestinian Territory
- IOM on Haiti – relocation of vulnerable community thwarted by land dispute
- Haiti reconstruction stalled by land disputes
- Report alleging corporate complicity in Sudan oil abuses hits home in Sweden
- Marcus Cox letter from Kyrgyzstan – Why the referendum should go forward
- Update on Kyrgyzstan
- Risk of another post-Soviet frozen conflict in Kyrgyzstan
- Post-conflict occupation of public property – an important issue raised at USIP’s INPRoL forum
- Land issues and natural disasters: introducing a new guidance for practitioners
- Guest-blogger Esteban Leon to introduce new land and natural disaster guidance
- Dye mon, gen mon – Land and shelter issues remain critical in post-quake Haiti
- Half full or half empty? Reflections on restitution and return in Bosnia by a returned expat
- News from Bosnia – ECtHR Dokic decision and guest blogger Massimo Moratti’s view from the field
- Online events – disaster-proofing housing and the development effect of agriculture
- Pinheiro passed over for Croatian candidate
- Mapuche land claims shake post-quake Chile
- The Terezin Declaration and new guidelines on inter-generational restitution
- The Commercial ‘Land Rush’ – human rights-based versus corporate social responsibility models
- Upcoming guest-postings – Chris Huggins on the ‘Global Land Rush’
- Back from the property frontlines…
- Liberia’s ‘Peace Imperative’ – can it undermine tenure security? An introductory commentary to the NRC report ‘Confusions and Palava’
- Release of NRC report on land disputes in Liberia – and guest blog by author Alexandre Corriveau-Bourque
- UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in session
- US Institute of Peace ‘Land, Property and Conflict’ Course in June
- Overlapping land uses and indigenous groups – two’s a crowd?
- Vulcano refugee sur place…
- The Economist reports on restitution – sort of
- Communication Initiative Network on land rights
- TN at two months
- Followup on Serbian Srebrenica condemnation
- Happy Easter – and good on the Serbian Parliament
- ‘Pinheiro Principles’ drafter in running for top UN human rights spot
- More on the Haiti donor conference
- Leadup to the Haiti donor conference – ‘decentralization’ as central to reconstruction
- A weather eye on Sudan
- Côte d’Ivoire: land reform as a substitute mechanism for restitution to displaced persons
- Back to the land for displaced persons?
- Guest blogger Barbara McCallin on land disputes in Côte d’Ivoire
- Followup on Myanmar
- Haiti early recovery linked to turning the corner in the countryside
- Endorois implementation campaign in Kenya
- Surveyors of the world unite – around a rights-based approach
- Restitution comes to Hamtramck, Michigan
- Iraq updates its approach to former regime-related land and property claims
- Guest blogger Peter van der Auweraert on Iraq restitution
- Staying ahead of the rains in Haiti
- Riots in Jos, Nigeria about land as well as identity
- Is the Myanmar junta preparing to “eat the country” a la Cambodia?
- More to come on property issues in post-election Iraq
- Iraq’s next Parliament to inherit unresolved displacement and housing crises
- Housing, land and property issues central to new Durable Solutions Framework for IDPs
- Haiti update – emergency response criticized as transitional measures get underway
- Deteriorating situation in Chile
- Don’t be shy…
- Earthquake in Chile
- Refugees International on civilian protection: a cautionary note on Blue Helmet HLP interventions
- Human rights are dead! Long live human rights!
- NYT on earthquakes and urbanization
- Haiti’s urban disaster becomes rural?
- FAO Gender and Land Rights Database
- Pastoral peoples’ rights and livelihoods
- The African Commission “Endorois Case” – Toward a Global Doctrine of Customary Tenure?
- Background on the “Endorois Case”
- Chris Huggins on the significance of the “Endorois Decision” for Kenya and East Africa
- CSM on land disputes in Africa
- Looking ahead from Week One
- The PACE ‘Poulsen Principles’ – Can the CoE shake up Europe’s restitution debate?
- Haiti
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