Myanmar Risks Leaving Women Behind
By: Caitlin Pierce
Date: April 4th 2016
Source: The Diplomat
“Now it is more important than ever to include women as true participants in governing Myanmar.”
There are 2, 653 content items of different types and languages related to gender equity in access to land on the Land Portal.
India: In for 50% quota, not even 10% women own land
By: TNN
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Times of India
Lucknow - On the eve of International Women's Day, while UP [Uttar Pradesh] celebrates an increased participation of women in its block and zila panchayats, higher even than the Central proposal of 50% reservation for women in local bodies, ownership of land among women remains abysmally low.
Female farmers in 90 nations face discriminatory land laws
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO, March 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women in more than 90 countries still lack equal rights to own land, hurting food production and efforts to tackle poverty, Rwanda's former agriculture minister said.
Africa: Gender and land rights program introduced in UCC
By: Admin
Date: March 4th 2016
Source: News Ghana
A two-week programme on gender and land rights to enhance the analytical skills of young academicians is underway at the University of Cape Coast.
Why don't World Bank projects safeguard women's rights?
By: Elaine Zuckerman
Date: February 23rd 2016
Source: The Guardian
Our study found life for women was worse, not better, after World Bank pipeline projects. A robust gender policy is vital
Tanzania: New Rights Group Comes Aboard
By: Ludovick Kazoka
Date: February 15th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily News
Human rights activists have launched a coalition, Mama Ardhi Alliance, with the aim of advocating for the amendments of the existing laws which are still infringing upon women's rights denying equal access to ownership of land and property.
Housing, living in India fraught with accessibility, other challenges: Report
By: Elizabeth Roche
Date: February 8th 2016
Source: Live Mint
Housing and Land Rights Network said that certain policies aim to redress the housing and land crisis in India, others promote inequality and insecurity
Zanzibar women brush up on the law to keep control of land
By: Kizito Makoye
Date: February 4th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
JAMBIANI, Tanzania, Feb 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Zuhura Salim was not entirely sure her family would ever recover a piece of land that her father-in-law seized when her husband died in a fishing accident some 11 years ago.
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With limited land, access to it has been a prevailing issue which leads to human rights violations to farmers, and to the disadvantaged women and indigenous peoples.
Seminar suggests need for rigorous, transparent and independent research to ensure inclusive LSLAs
In a seminar organised in November 2015 by Mokoro, two experts who have recently returned from the field shared their insights about an agribusiness in Ghana and women’s legal claims to land in Tanzania.
WB study explores the impact of land reform on fertility outcomes
A recent World Bank study investigates the impact of land reform on the fertility outcomes of households in rural Ethiopia. In the past, public policies and customary tenure created a situation where Ethiopian households could influence their usufruct rights to land via a demographic expansion of the family. The study evaluates the impact of the abolishment of these pronatal property rights on fertility outcomes.