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New publication - Secure Land Rights for All
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 This publication on Secure Land Rights for All demonstrates how secure land rights are particularly important in helping to reverse three types of phenomena: gender discrimination; social exclusion of vulnerable groups; and wider social and economic inequalities linked to inequitable and insecure rights to land. It argues that policymakers should adopt and implement the continuum of land rights because, no single form of tenure can meet the different needs of all social groups. However, a range of land tenure options enables both women and men from all social groups to meet their changing needs over time. The publication can assist policy-makers to understand and apply the practical ways in which people’s land rights can be made more secure, while at the same time improve land policies as a basis for the better, fairer and more sustainable urban and rural development.
The official launch of the publication will take place in New York at the UN Commission for Sustainable Development, 6 May 2008.
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GLTN at the United Nation Commission of Sustainable Development
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The sixteenth United Nation Commission of Sustainable Development (CSD-16) meeting will be held at the United Nations headquarter in New York on 5-16 May 2008. This meeting will be focusing on agriculture, rural development, land, drought, desertification and Africa.
There will be three side events organised by GLTN and its partners at
CSD-16. The side events will be focusing on sustainable approaches to
urbanisation as well as the gender and grassroots dimension of
sustainable land management and administration. The events will be an
opportunity to highlight and debate critical land issues for informed
decisions in regard to sustainable development globally, but also more
specifically in the African context.
Participants will have to register in advance to CSD-16: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/mgroups/participation.htm
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Expert Group Meeting on Post-Disaster Land Guidelines
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FAO and UN-HABITAT are organising a technical meeting to review and revise the draft guidelines and toolkit. The meeting will be held at the United Nations offices in Geneva from 21-23 April 2008. The objectives of the meeting are to:
- Ensure the guidelines meet the needs of the humanitarian community, in terms of structure and key issues identified;
- Critically review proposed policy options and recommendations on sequencing of interventions; and
- Review draft toolkit structure and proposed contents.
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