Darly Mendoza, integrante de la Plataforma de Incidencia Política de Mujeres Rurales Colombianas.

By Chris Hufstader

After an audacious land grab by a foreign company, indigenous women in a remote Cambodian village struggle to regain their farms and sacred sites.

By Deborah Espinosa and Patrick Gallagher, USAID’s Land Technology Solutions Program

Persistent and pervasive gender inequality is a global development challenge that constrains economic growth, educational opportunities, and health outcomes. It jeopardizes food security and undermines poverty reduction strategies. The world over, some formal and many informal laws and customs operate to hinder women’s empowerment and thus their full potential as agents of economic and social change.

Improving how we work for – and with – indigenous and local women in their communities

As a human rights organisation, gender justice is a fundamental principle of our work, and we have long been conscious of, and sought to address, the barriers to effective participation in decision-making by women, as well as the other human rights violations they may face on account of their gender.

Por: Kate Evans

Como no dejar que las mujeres indígenas queden fuera del mapa.

Todos los mapas cuentan una historia, una historia de nuestra relación con la tierra.

By Amber Rouleau, communications officer for African Women Rising.

Read the orignial version here.

SANTA BARBARA, California, USA, Nov 8 2018 (IPS) - While its conflict ended in 2007, Northern Uganda struggles with its legacy as one of the most aid-dependent regions in the world.

I have talked to women in at least 15 countries—in their homes, their gardens, their fields, their pastures, their universities, their community organizations, their government and executive offices, and their courtrooms. When asked about rural women’s land use or rights or ownership or livelihood, the thing that usually stands out to me is that most women say, in one form or another, that rural women are generally able to use land, and sometimes even control land, when they are in an intact family.

Artículo de la presidenta nacional de Afammer con motivo del Día Internacional de la Mujer Rural

Por Carmen Quintanilla

El género, la edad y la mecanización del trabajo apuntan a ser factores clave para el desarrollo de la agricultura en África

Por Angeles Lucas

Este artículo forma parte de la cobertura de IPS sobre el Día Internacional de las Mujeres Rurales, el 15 de octubre.

Por Mariela Jara

This week in Geneva, the Human Rights Council is expected to take a position on the follow-up to a draft Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other Persons Working in Rural Areas. Five years after the start of the negotiations, we are at a turning point.