Property Rights news

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How Indian state's three-capital plan could spur equal growth
MGM Resorts sued over vast data breach
Moscow deploys facial recognition for coronavirus quarantine
In Depth
Urban humans: Cities go up, down and high-tech to combat threats
Uganda reverses forest destruction by inviting in ... loggers
Fears surge in demand for hand sanitiser could fuel child labour
Wildfire smoke causes record pollution in Oregon
Scores of wildfires scorch U.S. West Coast, killing at least nine
Brazil's Amazon fires worsen in September, threaten virgin forests
COVID hit to Costa Rica gasoline tax stalls funding for forests
Global reforestation drive grows fast as governments grasp benefit
Weather gives firefighters relief battling California wildfires
Indian child workers' deaths spur anti-trafficking push
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Central Africa seeks to make forests work for people and planet
New anti-child labor efforts after children saved from Indian mill
Indonesia inches towards community forest goal, hobbled by virus
U.N. hails 'historic' milestone in global drive to end child labor
Argentina counts on new satellite tech to guard forests 24/7
Coronavirus cuts force Indonesia to scale back forest protection
Green group gives U.S. toilet paper makers failing grade
Siberian heatwave is 'warning cry' from Arctic: climate scientists
New platform matches funders, tree planters to protect forests
UN charts new territory with project to track all Myanmar's forest
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How many children are victims of child labour worldwide?
U.N. warns coronavirus may push millions of children into labor
Australia debates risks of logging fire-damaged forests
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From a Romanian castle to a planetarium, unlikely quarantine sites
Logging and climate shifts slash forest carbon storage
Merkel bemoans lack of rain as Germany fears for its forests
Fears of farmers, herders in Somaliland as a plague looms
Looser rules on Indonesia timber exports spark forest fears
Nestle to plant 3 million trees in Mexico, Brazil to offset carbon
Rainforest role as climate protector shrinks on hotter planet
Canada and indigenous group reach tentative deal
Apache tribe marches to protect sacred Arizona site from mine
Indigenous leader killed in Costa Rica, second in a year
PepsiCo adopts stricter, greener rules for palm oil in products
Quake in Turkey-Iran border region kills 9, injures more than 100
New Mexico AG sues Google for collecting school kids' data
Netanyahu announces plans for 3,000 new settler homes
'Feels like prison': Palestinian family cut off by Israeli barrier
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Money trees: U.S. cities find new ways of valuing urban forests
Google plans to move UK users' accounts outside EU jurisdiction
Irish regulator readies draft decisions in big tech privacy probes
California to make state buildings available to house homeless
Austrian privacy activist Schrems files complaint against Amazon
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About our Property Rights coverage

We put the spotlight on how land and property rights can empower communities worldwide.

Opinion

Chris Gardner

Britain's cities of the future should be rooted in the past

What needs to change, and urgently, is this widely held belief that new homes means new builds
Arlindo Macuva

More land rights mean fewer fires in Mozambique

Land titles ease conflicts with neighbours - and can cut down on problems including runaway fires
Maimunah Mohd Sharif and Andrew ... International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

City leaders need to rise to the climate change challenge

As national governments struggle to agree on climate action, city leaders need to show they can rise to the challenge
Sheela Patel and Manish Bapna Global Commission on Adaptation

Leaders must prioritize climate resilience of vulnerable residents

More than 880 million people worldwide now live in informal settlements, which often lack even basic services like electricity and clean water

In Depth

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Central African states seek to make forests work for people and planet
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Money trees: U.S. cities find new ways of valuing urban forests
Can ethical businesses bring a breath of fresh air to Asia's polluted cities?
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ANALYSIS-Unequal cities bear the brunt of deadly disease outbreaks

Videos & Pictures

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The remote Alaskan village divided over oil drilling
Sea Of Plenty?
Artist revives Lebanon's abandoned historic buildings
The sand, the saxaul and the ghost sea
Want to save the planet? Move to Wales
Fracking on my doorstep

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