Advocacy group Human Rights Watch has criticised slow progress in addressing historical land grabs, which continue to leave large numbers of people destitute, and inadequate legal reform in protecting land tenure.
A Burmese court finds 33 farmers living next to a Special Economic Zone guilty of criminal trespass, a ruling seen by activists as a blow to land rights in a country with a rising demand for property for industrial use.
Women land rights defenders in Asia are at greater risk of violence and harassment, according to rights groups who are calling on authorities to do more to protect them as conflicts over land and resources get increasingly bloody.
Campaigners demanding the return of land to villagers in northern Burma said their fight would go on, days after an activist was beaten to death by a mob while visiting the disputed territory on the invitation of local officials.
Activists want a thorough investigation into the killing of a land rights activist in Burma, and greater protection of land defenders, amid a sharp increase in territorial disputes.
Environment Farmers Lead Story Natural resources News
The number of quarries in Mon State is quickly increasing and locals say authorities fail to regulate their environmental impact on farmlands.
At the expense of poor farmers, land grabs have been on the rise since conflict re-erupted in Kachin State.
Farmer’s rights advocate Su Su Nway has been jailed in Pegu Division after being charged with trespassing.
A leading land rights proponent and NLD leader in Hpa-an was shot dead by unknown assailants outside his home in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Development Karen Lead Story News Video
Watch as KHRG takes you into rural southeastern Burma, where forced land confiscation and environmental destruction is taking place under the backdrop of an increasing Burmese military presence.
Forty-eight families were left homeless and several people injured after violence broke out following an attempt to evict residents in Simphontaung.
Residents from Malakyun and Gonchein villages are demanding compensation for the farmland destroyed by the company’s operations.
DVB spoke to the founder and leader of the Myanmar Farmers Union about her organisation’s aims and future plans.
Myint Aung, 63, doused himself in gasoline and self-immolated after being told that a residential project was planned for land seized two decades ago.
Environment Lead Story News Pegu Division
Villagers who say they have suffered from environmental and economic chaos as a result of a newly built hydropower dam in Pegu Division’s Taungtaunggyi held a protest on Sunday, calling[…]
Karenni Land Lead Story News Protest
Following last week’s sentencing of three local farmers, a Karenni court finds six more guilty of trespassing, prompting local supporters to stage a rally.
As many as 500 villagers protested in front of a township court after three of their peers were sentenced for their part in a symbolic “plough protest”.
Activists staged the symbolic acts to draw attention to the continued detention of Burmese citizens.
Analysis Lead Story News Protest
Land disputes, industrial action, and student activists: Bo Gyi of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners on the right to protest.
Analysis Contributor Land Lead Story News
Burma’s National Land Use Policy must first address the discrepancies between protecting vulnerable peoples’ land use rights and claims before creating an enabling investment environment.
Land Lead Story News Pegu Division
Around 450 acres of land belonging to 123 farmers in Dhammange, Phalanbin, Jobintha and Shasaybo villages were allegedly confiscated in 1991 by the Burmese army.
Local villagers in Karenni State’s Hpruso Township sent a letter to Burma’s military chief Min Aung Hlaing for permission to farm on land that was allegedly seized from them by the Burmese Army in 1993.
Local farmers from Mandalay Division’s Sintgai Township were sentenced to prison terms of up to eight months on Tuesday under charges of trespassing and destroying property while staging a plough protest in May.
Land Lead Story News Society Video
Seventy-six-year-old activist Thaung Nyunt had campaigned relentlessly against the confiscation of her land and that of her community, right up until her death on Friday.
More than 40 square kilometres of farmland in Pegu Division’s Thegon Township have been inundated by overflow from a nearby reservoir following heavy rain, according to locals.
Eighteen farmers in Kanbalu, Sagaing Division, have been sentenced to jail terms of up to three and half years for ploughing seized lands, a newly popular form of protest in Burma.
The Burmese army plans to return less than 125,000 acres of farmland to its original owners, a Ministry of Defence official said on Wednesday.
Land Lead Story News Property Video
The government has returned 5,000 acres of land to residents in Mandalay’s Tada-U, after confiscating it in 1993 to make way for construction of an airport.
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Lead Story News Property Video
Farmers in central Burma’s Madaya have vandalised a local fishery pond in a show of anger over the reluctance of the fishery owners to negotiate.
