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A Study Report on Analysis of Key Land Laws in Sri Lanka

A special reference to Women and Community Land Rights

Reports & Research
October, 2017
Sri Lanka
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land law
land reform
legal pluralism
environment
common lands
land economics
land rights
community land rights
property rights
women
Land is an imperative and crucial factor in the social, cultural and economic identity of the people in Sri Lanka due to the importance it has been given throughout our history. Moreover, the rights and interests over land are unequivocally and legally secured without any discrimination on the basis of gender, caste, religious or ethnic lines for its peaceful enjoyment and for the economic development of the people and the country.
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Women and Land in Pakistan

Reports & Research
December, 2017
Pakistan
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land law
agriculture
land rights
control rights
land ownership
women
Women have largely been excluded from the ownership and control of land in Pakistan, which is the single most important source of income and status in the agricultural economy. This systematic exclusion stems from multiple factors at both the policy and societal level, which include multiple and contradictory sources of law that fail to resolve the issue of women’s right to property as well as cultural bias and discriminatory practices that arise from the prevalent male-dominant mindset in rural areas.
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Gender, authority and the politics of land in Lesotho

Reports & Research
January, 2017
Lesotho
Land & Gender
land administration
land policies
property rights
women
This DPhil dissertation explores the logic, methods, and outcomes of a U.S. government- sponsored land reform in Lesotho, Southern Africa. The reform was part of a $363 million grant from the Millennium Challenge Corporation to the Kingdom of Lesotho that funded a sweeping change. Instead of local chiefs administering and allocating land, the power shifted to bureaucrats and landholders, who received leasehold titles to their land.
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Port Loko Declaration: Women say “We want our lands back!”

Training Resources & Tools
August, 2017
Sierra Leone
Land in post-conflict settings
gender equity in access to land
land dispute
land policies
land rights
local communities
women
We, leaders of groups of women affected by the expansion of industrial monoculture plantations, particularly oil palm plantations, coming from all regions in Sierra Leone and different countries from West and Central Africa;

We, national and international organizations involved in the struggle for the rights of women and local communities in Africa, Latin America and Asia, signatories of this declaration, met from 14 to 15 August 2017 in Port Loko, Sierra Leone.
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Journalists receive training on writing punchy women's land rights stories

November, 2017
Africa
Land & Gender
land rights
land policies
land
women
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Ecuador: recambios de la “Revolución Ciudadana” y continuidad conservadora

Policy Papers & Briefs
October, 2017
Ecuador
land access
agriculture
indigenous peoples' land rights
agrarian structure
women
land policies
Quito, Ecuador
20 de octubre de 2017
Ecuador: recambios de la “Revolución Ciudadana” y continuidad conservadora

Stalin Herrera Revelo

Informe País [1]
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Assessment Toolkit: Assessing gender-sensitive implementation and country-level monitoring of the Tenure Governance and Africa Land Policy Guidelines

Manuals & Guidelines
Training Resources & Tools
November, 2017
Africa
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
VGGT
land governance
sustainable development
food security
land law
tenure security
capacity development
farmers
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
women
This gender-sensitive toolkit enables civil society organisations, women and communities, as well as other actors to assess each country’s current legal framework and tenure governance arrangements in line with the provisions of the VGGTS and the AU F&G.
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The Community Land Act in Kenya

Opportunities and Challenges for Communities

Journal Articles & Books
Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2018
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
community land rights
customary land rights
customary law
customary tenure
indigenous peoples' land rights
land law
land registration
pastoralists
women
Kenya is the most recent African state to acknowledge customary tenure as producing lawful property rights, not merely rights of occupation and use on government or public lands. This paper researches this new legal environment. This promises land security for 6 to 10 million Kenyans, most of who are members of pastoral or other poorer rural communities. Analysis is prefaced with substantial background on legal trends continentally, but the focus is on Kenya’s Community Land Act, 2016, as the framework through which customary holdings are to be identified and registered.
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The Partnership for Action Conference: Summary of Conference Outcomes

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2017
Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
Urban Tenure
gender equity in access to land
housing rights
land dispute
land governance
land law
land policies
local communities
sustainable development
women
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WOMEN LAND AND PROPERTY RIGHTS IN KENYA

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2017
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
communal ownership
community land rights
customary land rights
customary tenure
eviction
gender equity in access to land
land access
land administration
land inheritance rights
land management
land ownership
land tenure systems
local communities
tenure security
statutory tenure
women
While women’s rights to land and property are protected under the Kenyan Constitution of 2010 and in various national statutes, in practice, women remain disadvantaged and discriminated. The main source of restriction is customary laws and practices, which continue to prohibit women from owning or inheriting land and other forms of property.