Failure to comply with court verdicts resulted in delays in issuing titles. In some cases, although a court case had not taken place, new land titles were issued to another side or a third party
This issue provides updates on activities implemented by the Secretariat, its members and its network related to land and natural resource advocacy from July - September 2020.
women have lost access to and control over land. In the matrilineal villages, women have lost private customary lowland paddy fields while in the patrilineal villages they have lost mostly fields in communal land areas that were used for subsistence agriculture.