This chapter aims to contribute to the debate on contemporary ‘land grabbing’ and its impact on human rights. It describes the role played by United Nations (UN) human rights mechanisms in monitoring violations associated with large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs), with a focus on UN treaty bodies. A typology of human rights violations associated with LSLAs is presented, on the basis of the assessment that UN treaty bodies have made in examining the impact of LSLAs in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, and Vietnam. Three common threads can be extracted from this assessment. The first relates to the actual or potential human rights implications of the internal displacement and forced evictions caused by LSLAs, which often lead to drastic changes in ...
Includes bibliographical references.Transnational land acquisitions (TLA) are promoted by internatio...
International law, and more particularly international human rights law, has for some time been seen...
Agrarian reform is back on the political agenda. However, from a human rights perspective this notio...
This chapter aims to contribute to the debate on contemporary ‘land grabbing’ and its impact on huma...
Being anchored in the broader policy debate on the effectiveness of international human rights stand...
The present article discusses the question of land grabbing with a focus on human rights related is...
The size and duration of land grabs in Sub Saharan Africa are of dimensions never seen before. This ...
Large-scale land acquisition, or "land grabbing", has become a key research topic among scholars int...
Land Grabbing bedroht kontinuierlich und in zunehmendem Ausmaß die Menschenrechte der betroffenen Be...
This essay addresses the phenomenon of land grabbing, in relation to the Universal Declaration of Hu...
Very little has been written on indigenous rights in South-East Asia. This article attempts to addre...
The various contributions to this volume show, first, that previous episodes of large-scale land acq...
This article explores the scope and content of the right to property and critically evaluates the ex...
This article offers an assessment of treaty law on foreign land ownership in the context of internat...
Land rights have received some attention as an issue concerning property rights. It has been consid...
Includes bibliographical references.Transnational land acquisitions (TLA) are promoted by internatio...
International law, and more particularly international human rights law, has for some time been seen...
Agrarian reform is back on the political agenda. However, from a human rights perspective this notio...
This chapter aims to contribute to the debate on contemporary ‘land grabbing’ and its impact on huma...
Being anchored in the broader policy debate on the effectiveness of international human rights stand...
The present article discusses the question of land grabbing with a focus on human rights related is...
The size and duration of land grabs in Sub Saharan Africa are of dimensions never seen before. This ...
Large-scale land acquisition, or "land grabbing", has become a key research topic among scholars int...
Land Grabbing bedroht kontinuierlich und in zunehmendem Ausmaß die Menschenrechte der betroffenen Be...
This essay addresses the phenomenon of land grabbing, in relation to the Universal Declaration of Hu...
Very little has been written on indigenous rights in South-East Asia. This article attempts to addre...
The various contributions to this volume show, first, that previous episodes of large-scale land acq...
This article explores the scope and content of the right to property and critically evaluates the ex...
This article offers an assessment of treaty law on foreign land ownership in the context of internat...
Land rights have received some attention as an issue concerning property rights. It has been consid...
Includes bibliographical references.Transnational land acquisitions (TLA) are promoted by internatio...
International law, and more particularly international human rights law, has for some time been seen...
Agrarian reform is back on the political agenda. However, from a human rights perspective this notio...