Free from Harm: Rights to Land and a Brighter Future for Women
I’ll never forget the day one of my students in Bangladesh told me she had to drop out of school.
Beijing at 20 – How the Visionary Platform Works for Women’s Land Rights Today
Twenty years ago, the fourth world conference on women hosted in Beijing broke ...
Why gender equality must include customary laws
This blog was originally published by World Economic Forum. By Tzili Mor One ...
Brazil’s Women Leaders Meet to Discuss: The Intersection of Interests for Women’s Land Rights
Scores of women leaders from across Brazil, including indigenous and Afro-Brazilian, rural and urban, from government and civil society, gathered in Recife, the capital of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco last week to call for concrete indicators focused on women’s economic empowerment to be among the measures of progress toward the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Why the Modi government must work on land reform before land acquisition
India’s economy has already crossed $2 trillion and is growing annually at around 6%. But these figures cannot hide the fact that 69% of the population is rural, and 70% of this, or nearly half of all Indians, still depend on land and land-based activities for their livelihoods, according to figures in the India Rural Development Report 2012-2013, released by Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation.
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