ESC rights on the ground

Working both for promoting and standing up for ESC rights in Cameroon, these two organizations strengthened their cooperation on May 5th.

Submitted by the FAPIL, the GISTI, the DAL, the AFVS and the FNARS on January 29th 2009, the High Authority fighting against discrimination and for equal rights (Haute Autorité de Lutte contre les Discriminations et pour l’Egalité - HALDE) has just given a verdict towards the discriminating nature of the conditions of access to the “DALO” appeal.

The March 5th 2007 “DALO Act” claims that the right to decent and independent housing is guaranteed by State to anyone who is not in a position to have access to it by his or her own means or to hold on to it. It somehow lays down the condition of being resident in France on a regular basis and under permanent conditions described in statutory order.

A new database launched by FAO puts the spotlight on one of the major stumbling blocks to rural development - widespread inequalities between men and women in their access to land.

The Gender and Land Rights Database, produced in consultation with national statistics authorities, universities, civil society organizations and other sources worldwide, offers up-to-date information on how men and women in 78 countries differ in their legal rights and access to land.

Right to health, Right to food - The debate on whether or not to allow aerial spraying of chemicals in banana plantations here and in the rest of the country continues with the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) calling on President Macapagal-Arroyo to shelve it.