Strengthening Women’s Access to Land
RISD in conjuction with IFAD carried out a study on ’Strengthening Women’s Access to Land’ in the Districts of Kayonza and Kirehe in Eastern Province.
Women and Land
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
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
[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
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.
Women’s Inheritance Rights to Land and Property in South Asia
This is a 2009 study undertaken by the Rural Development Institute, now Landesa, and authored by Elisa Scalise. It focuses on six South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) and addresses both formal and customary laws and pratices governing women's inheritance rights.
Is gender an important factor influencing user groups’ property rights and forestry governance?
[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
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
[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.
Land Rights are Cambodian Women's Human Rights - By Mo Sochua
An article on women's land rights by Mu Sochua - Cambodian MP and former Minister for Women's Affairs - on the Cambodia Daily (January 10th 2012)