The Land Tool Network, a global network of land tool developers, was established as a practical follow up action to campaign advocacy.

Where we work in Aurangabad, the land is extraordinarily parched.

30. The Working Group on Indigenous Populations is open to indigenous participation regardless of consultative status with ECOSOC.

However, neither land registration nor the cadastre seems to be fully operational.

The Government reports that it deployed every reasonable effort to speed up the process of demarcation of indigenous lands in 1998.

One Working Group also addressed Rural Populations Group of the land.

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Nepal is undertaking a successful land pooling exercise involving over 310 land owners in Kathmandu.

The Working Group considered that the debate on the sub items relating to environment, land and sustainable development and the working paper of the Special Rapporteur on the study on indigenous people and their relationship to land provided comprehensive information to members and participants.

The land cover classification for North America is complete and the one for South America was scheduled to be completed by late 1995.

The National Housing Policy of 1993 attempted to address these issues and the Ministry of Lands has commenced an exercise to modernize land records.

The working paper reviewed contemporary problems faced by indigenous people with regard to land and natural resources.

2. Reports and statements from indigenous peoples from all parts of the world during the sessions of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations have made clear that land and resource issues, particularly the dispossession of indigenous peoples from their lands, are issues of a central and fundamental nature.

FAO also cooperates with UNEP and UNESCO by participating in working groups on the harmonization of land use and land cover classification.

With this reform under way, the State plans to evaluate the land and determine which lands can be used for industry, agro industry and the like.

I figure when we get out there and get work... and maybe get us a piece of growing' land near water, it might not be so bad at that.

She encouraged participants to provide information for the working paper on indigenous peoples and their relationship to land.

Women are tied to the land and although they do most of the work they receive very little recognition.

The Chairperson Rapporteur of the Working Group, in her capacity as the Special Rapporteur on the study on indigenous people and their relationship to land, presented her preliminary working paper on indigenous people and their relationship to land (E CN.4 Sub.2 1997 17 and Corr.1).

In fact we do not want this poor woman to work the land like this.

Many indigenous participants reported to the Working Group that their rights to land and natural resources were not recognized.

The Working Group congratulated the Special Rapporteur, Ms. Erica Irene A. Daes, on the study on indigenous people and their relationship to land for her working paper.

We wish to reiterate our call to Israel to allow unfettered access to staff members of United Nations agencies and humanitarian workers in the occupied territories, so that they can carry out their work effectively.

3. Also expresses its appreciation to observers who participated in the thirteenth session of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations for their active and constructive participation in its work

15. His Government urged the working group of the Commission on Human Rights to complete its work on the draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples.

Neutral status considerably helped Turkmenistan carry out its consolidating function for two years within the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO).

(a) Final working paper of the Special Rapporteur on indigenous land rights (resolution 1997 12, para. 3)

Their job is to fry the potatoes.

Working Group on Indigenous Populations

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International Fellowship of Indigenous Affairs Reconciliation

For example, it did not provide flexibility for the accommodation of the operation of new types of cooperatives such as workers cooperatives or land purchase cooperatives.

3. Also requests the administering Power, in cooperation with the territorial Government, to continue to transfer land to the original landowners of the Territory

Also requests the administering Power, in cooperation with the territorial Government, to continue to transfer land to the original landowners of the Territory

The Working Group decided that at its sixteenth session it would focus on the questions of the membership, participation in and mandate of a possible permanent forum, including issues such as equitable geographical distribution on the basis of where indigenous peoples live and the open and authentic representation of indigenous nations, peoples, organizations and communities.

In the name of our subjects, I dedicate this good work... to the people of our land.

The Government was finalizing the formulation of a National Housing Development Programme and developing a national land and land use policy.

With that in mind, the Government had promoted the distribution of State land to landless tenants, easy availability of credit, and relief to drought affected areas.

Some indigenous participants also invited the Special Rapporteur to visit their territories in order to provide him with a better understanding of the local situation, thus facilitating his mandate.

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) emphasizes the need to promote energy crops on degraded lands.

Economic instruments which influence land use decisions, land use and mobility patterns.

INDISCO programme promotion of decent work for indigenous and tribal peoples

4. Also requests the administering Power, in cooperation with the territorial Government, to continue to transfer land to the original landowners of the Territory

3. Also requests the administering Power, in cooperation with the territorial Government, to continue to transfer land to the original landowners of the Territory

Also requests the administering Power, in cooperation with the territorial Government, to continue to transfer land to the original landowners of the Territory