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Making Property Rights Accessible: Social Movements and Legal Innovation in the Philippines
Published by: IDS
Today, many rural poor Filipinos are using state law to try to claim land rights. In spite of the availability of a much heftier set of specialised legal resources than ever before, however, claiming legal land rights remains extremely difficult.
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The Movement of the Landless (MST) and the Juridical Field in Brazil
Published by: IDS
This paper focuses on the Movement of the Landless (MST) in Brazil, which through a number of legal strategies has helped produce watershed high court rulings, contributed to the process of constitutionalising law, and made access to land more equitable in parts of Brazil by redefining property rights in practice.
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