Oxfam listened to women and men from Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Timor-Leste who shared their stories on how the climate crisis caused loss and damage to their lands and impacted their lives.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJuly, 2023Asia
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2023Asia, Iraq
Esta tabla complementa el perfil de país de Irak publicado por Land Portal el 10 de diciembre de 2023.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2023Asia, Iraq
Esta tabela é um complemento ao perfil de país do Iraque, publicado pelo Land Portal em 10 de dezembro de 2023.
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Library ResourceManuals & GuidelinesReports & ResearchOctober, 2023Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania
Les femmes jouent un rôle essentiel dans la lutte contre les changements climatiques. Les auteurs de cette étude montrent qu’investir en faveur des femmes rurales contribue à la réalisation des objectifs climatiques, tout en luttant contre les inégalités femmes-hommes et la pauvreté. Les projets et les politiques liés aux changements climatiques qui associent les femmes obtiennent de meilleurs résultats sur le plan de l’environnement.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJune, 2022Indonesia
Social forestry programs, aimed to reduce poverty in forest communities while maintaining the forest function, are increasingly incorporating gender issues and responsiveness. By design, social forestry program is supposed to promote justice and equality for forest users, but on the ground discriminatory practices against women are occurring. Drawing case study from two Indonesian villages, this study examined the extent of discrimination against women in the implementation of the state social forestry programs.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationApril, 2021India
Measuring gender inequality in land ownership is essential for assessing progress in women’s economic empowerment, tracing the impact of progressive laws on actual practice, and monitoring SDG 5 on gender equality. To effectively assess inter-gender (male-female) gaps in land ownership, however, requires multiple measures. We also need to know which women are more likely to own land by tracing intra-gender differences. To date, no study on India has provided a full range of measures on inter-gender inequality in land ownership or focused on intra-gender variations.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2022Asia
Land ownership has long been argued to enhance farm productivity by improving tenure security. But would this hold for female and male owners alike? The relationship between land ownership and productivity has been investigated relatively little from a gender perspective in most regions, with work on Asia being especially sparse. Even less explored are gender differences in the likelihood of landowners self-cultivating as vs. leasing out their land.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksMarch, 2023India
One of the earliest demands of Indian women’s organisations in the pre-Independence period was the right to be elected to legislative bodies. Yet, almost a century later, a vast gender gap persists in terms of women’s presence at all levels of governance. Why is it important to include women in political and policy decision-making bodies, beyond the issue of equality? Do women representatives necessarily represent women’s interests? Indeed, how do we define women’s interests and how can they be represented best? And how much presence makes for effective representation?
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchFebruary, 2023Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates
There is a correlation between socio-economic development, human rights and the empowerment of men and women to participate at all levels of decision making. Secure land rights are an important precondition for the achievement of these goals, including and the realisation of a broad spectrum of human rights: adequate housing, equality, food, health, work and education.
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A Collaborative Approach to Change
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2023Africa, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Senegal, Colombia, Asia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, GlobalLand rights are ascendant across the development sector. Movements addressing women’s empowerment, poverty, social justice, food security and climate change are all increasingly turning to land rights to strengthen their cause. In 2022, renowned philanthropist MacKenzie Scott joined these efforts by making an unprecedented $20 million investment in our work. Ms. Scott’s generous gift represents a profound endorsement of the power of land rights to improve the lives of women, men, and communities around the world.
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