Aboriginal land claims and agreements

Customary land shall consist of reserves, land allocated to groupements de droit particulier local (groups covered by special local law provisions) (GPDL) and land allocated by ADRAF in response to claims made on the basis of ties to the land.

This led to the institution of land take over proceedings demanding the arrest of seven persons identified as leaders of the occupation.

Ancestral land claim

The Constitution incorporates significant provisions calling for the demarcation and protection of indigenous lands.

44. The positive and successful measures relating to claims for land and return of land are dealt with in section IV below.

The unresolved issue of claims for land property is also addressed.

Most recently there has been a demand from indigenous peoples for the establishment of indigenous universities in indigenous areas, with programmes designed specifically for indigenous peoples.

Do they have any claim to land on which to live in community?

You turn for help to land.

45. A particular problem that has been repeatedly brought to the attention of the Commission on Human Rights and the Sub Commission is the use or misuse of claim procedures to deprive indigenous peoples of their rights or their claimed rights to land and resources.

(c) Respecting human rights of local and indigenous communities the extractive industry's close link to the land sometimes required the relocation and resettlement of local communities.

Many indigenous representatives referred to the principle of terra nullius, which had been used to justify the negation of indigenous land claims.

407. The Committee also requests the Ministry of Agrarian Reform to continue its institutional intervention to persuade public land (ejido) assemblies to allocate to women the parcels of land to which they are entitled.

The demand by women's social movements for title deeds demonstrating joint ownership in land increased.

24. Expert Seminar on Practical Experiences regarding Indigenous Land Rights and Claims.

What, then, might be the prospects of a negotiated peace between two peoples with claims to the same land?

The United States must return unconditionally all land that it had stolen from the Chamorro people.

Particular action was called for in resolving land disputes involving minorities or indigenous peoples.

48. There have also been complaints about land claim mechanisms in other countries.

Ms. Ferreira de López (Paraguay) said that, at the request of the indigenous communities themselves, indigenous assemblies, a majority of which were women, had come on four different occasions to present their demands chief among them education and the right of women to own land to the National Congress.

The new administrative procedure for demarcation of indigenous lands was introduced by Decree No. 1775 of 8 January 1996 and allowed any claimant to provide evidence to sustain his or her claim pertaining to demarcated indigenous land.

41. Some States, such as Brazil, have strong and very positive laws requiring demarcation of indigenous lands.

In particular, the Act made an important distinction with regard to the requirements for the alienation of Maori freehold land.

Circular 1900 2001 TT TCDC by Department of Land Office guide procedures to offer the right to land use without any discrimination against sex of land users.

As regards the Ixcán CPR, the population has yet to come up with a property that satisfies the requirements of the Land Trust Fund.

70. In the sections dealing with the failure to acknowledge claims and the discriminatory policies that persist with regard to indigenous land issues, there was brief mention of the difficulties that indigenous peoples face with respect to judicial mechanisms by which they can secure their rights.

It also notes with concern that some communities are reported to have been subjected to intimidation and pressures to renounce their claims to such land.

The use of rural land for housing is regulated by Ordinance No. 2 of the Minister of Territorial Development and Construction and the Minister of Agriculture (1993), setting out procedures for building housing on rural land this is allowed only for satisfying the housing needs of the land owner or the individual using the land.

The first was the Crown protection mechanism, under which surplus land belonging to the Crown was held pending the settlement of claims and surplus land could be used in partial settlement and second priority was given to claims submitted by persons residing in quot confiscated lands quot .

However, the intention of article 26 to cover all the many different situations involving indigenous land claims in every part of the world was overly broad.

The request for an assessment of the extent of land degradation in drylands came from the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), out of which the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA) project was conceived.

In these circumstances the demand for proof of land ownership or title to land is often an insurmountable obstacle.

While the Law legalized the restitution of agricultural land to the original owners, it also provided for the use of such land for meeting both the food requirements of the population as a whole and the individual needs of landowners and farmers.

First you need access to land.

Belize continues to be plagued by an anachronistic claim to its territory from our neighbour Guatemala.

Indigenous claims have generally been negated by applying various versions of the principle of terra nullius.

1. Military activities shall not take place in the lands or territories of indigenous peoples, unless justified by a significant threat to relevant public interest or otherwise freely agreed with or requested by the indigenous peoples concerned.

The peace sought by the people of the island required more than a halt to the bombing, it also required the return, development, decontamination and demilitarization of the land.

Since the lives of indigenous peoples were tied to their lands, he called for the adoption of articles 26 to 30 as they were currently drafted.

13.6 States should ensure that users of housing, land and or property, including tenants, have the right to participate in the restitution claims process, including through the filing of collective restitution claims.

He requested the adoption of the overall document without any amendments and called for the document to meet the aspirations of indigenous peoples as they were the interested parties.

Stopping unsustainable land uses before they permanently degrade the land's carrying capacity may require public sector promotion of sustainable land uses.

At present, these identified lands are being validated on the ground and measures to unlock these lands for actual release for housing are being identified.

Noting that the people of the Territory have called for reform in the programme of the administering Power with respect to the thorough, unconditional and expeditious transfer of land property to the people of Guam,