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Women and Land

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
Eastern Africa
Global
Tanzania
Cameroon
Colombia
Ethiopia
Kenya
Malawi
Rwanda
Senegal
Uganda

Here it is an important book on Women's Land Rights, published by the International Development Research Centre.

New COHRE Report - Living under threat but with nowhere to go

Reports & Research
January, 2011

You can find below, attached, a new report from the Centre On Housing Rights & Evictions (COHRE) - Asia on women's land and housing rights in Phnom Penh. Authors identify 11 recommendations for the Royal Government of Cambodia and 7 for NGOs. The report is based on a survey of 742 women interviewed, representing approxitemely 10 percent of the affected families in 74 communities threatened with forced evictions in Phnom Penh.

In focus - Women and Land - IDRC Conversations with activists, leaders, and researchers on women's land rights

Africa
Eastern Africa

[From Youtube.com] In September 2010, in Nairobi, Kenya, IDRC hosted the policy symposium, Gendered Terrain: Women's Rights and Access to Land in Africa. At this symposium, researchers from across Africa shared their findings and engaged with policymakers. These 11 short videos present valuable insight from some of the symposium's participants.

Cambodia: Women hit hard by wave of forced evictions

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Cambodia

Few days after an important report from the Center on Housing Rights and Evicitions (COHRE) on women's land and housing rights in Phnom Penh, another report on forced evictions in Cambodia, this time from Amnesty International and focused on rural areas. This publication tells the stories of five cambodian women who have faced or resist forced eviction from their homes and land.

Is gender an important factor influencing user groups’ property rights and forestry governance?

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Kenya

[From CIFOR] This article explores the effects that gender composition of forest user groups has on property rights and forestry governance, based on data from 290 forest user groups in Kenya, Uganda, Bolivia, and Mexico. Findings indicate gender composition of user groups is important, but not always in the expected ways.

Memorandum from the Rural Women's Assembly to the UNFCCC, the Government of the Republic of South Africa and the Governments of Africa

Legislation & Policies
January, 2011
Southern Africa

We the Rural Women’s Assembly of Southern Africa, meeting in Durban on the event of the 17th Conference of Parties of the UNFCCC in Durban from 30 November to 5 December 2011 demand that governments take the following immediate steps to address the clear and present danger posed to rural communities by the climate crisis.

Myrna Cunningham on the International Human Rights Day 10 december 2011

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2011
Global

[From the Foro Internacional de Mujeres Indígenas] Today, December 10 — International Human Rights Day, we want to acknowledge the hard work of millions of indigenous women who in adverse conditions, hit with multiple forms of violence contribute with their resilience capabilities to the lives of their people’s. To them we dedicate this day, to the defenders of the rights of indigenous women who run enormous risks to do their job.