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Four Ways to Help Myanmar’s Rural Poor

This post was originally featured on the World Economic Forum Blog. Today, about half ...

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June 03, 2013

Bride Kidnapping and Land Rights in Rural Kyrgyzstan

Nazgul, then 19, was refilling cups of tea at the roadside café where ...

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May 03, 2013

Invisible and Voiceless

By Kalpana Sharma After a poor monsoon season, much of India now appears ...

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April 15, 2013

How Ensuring Women’s Rights to Land Keeps Girls Out of Child Marriage in Kenya

“Life has changed for my little girl Kayla,” says Gladys Chepkorir, a widow ...

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January 15, 2013

Balancing Customary Law and Gender Equality in Land Rights: Mmusi and Others v. Ramantele and Another

In a number of African countries, customary inheritance law is on trial. This ...

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December 21, 2012