By: Caroline Moser

Date: October 6th 2016

Source:  Next City

On  October 17, the Habitat III conference opens in Quito, Ecuador. Its primary objective is for UN member states to adopt the New Urban Agenda (NUA), reflect on the agreements reached, and elaborate on policy and planning processes for its implementation across the globe.

By: Lois Aduamoah – Addo, WiLDAF Ghana

Date: October 4th 2016

Source: GhanaWeb

Despite the range of legal provisions in Ghana emphasising equality of all persons before the law, there are still significant pieces of evidence to suggest that the rights of vulnerable groups including women are not fully protected when it comes to access and use of land as a productive asset.

By: Annie Gowen

Date: September 29th 2016

Source: The Washington Post

INDIA’S DIVIDE | This is part of a series about oppression and violence against women in India as a rising generation collides with old social mores.

By: Erin Handley

Date: September 28th 2016

Source: Phnom Penh Post

By: Linda Nyondo
Date: September 21st 2016
Source: Zambia Daily Mail

A GROUP of African women including Zambians are next month expected to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to advocate for women’s land rights.

Action Aid communications officer Hellen Mwale confirmed the development in a statement in Lusaka recently.

By: Vicki Gass

Date: September 20th 2016

Source: Oxfam America

Women are banding together in Honduras and around the world to demand #LandRightsNow.

By: Kizito Makoye Shigela

Date: September 15th 2016

Source: In Depth News

VILABWA, Tanzania (IDN) - At a small village south of Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam, women rarely talk about land issues because customary norms keep them at bay. “We don’t have the voice, its men who decide everything,” said Saada Hassan a resident of Vilabwa.

By: Holly Miller

Date: September 16th 2016

Source: Women's Agenda

By: Albertina Nakale
Date: September 6th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / New Era

Windhoek — Of the 5 231 individuals who benefitted from the resettlement programme since independence to date, 1 405 are female, while 2 039 are men.

The remaining 1 787 are classified as 'group resettlement'.

Director for land reform and resettlement in the Ministry of Land Reform Peter Nangolo said all landless Namibians that apply for resettlement are considered without gender discrimination.

Date: September 3rd 2016
Source: The News Pakistan

Women in parts of conflict-hit central and eastern India are more vulnerable to violence and eviction from their land because a decades-long insurgency has made it harder for them to claim equal land rights, according to a new study.

By: Rina Chandran

Date: September 2nd 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women in parts of conflict-hit central and eastern India are more vulnerable to violence and eviction from their land because a decades-long insurgency has made it harder for them to claim equal land rights, according to a new study.

By: Seth J. Bokpe

Date: August 31st 2016

Source: Graphic.com

Ghana needs to regulate and limit the size of land companies can acquire for any purposes, including real estate and agriculture. 

This was the view of participants in a workshop to disseminate the findings of a research on large-scale land acquisition and its impact on women in Africa.