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Myrna Cunningham on the International Human Rights Day 10 december 2011

A message from the Chairperson of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2011
Global
Indigenous Peoples
women
natural resources management
gender equity in access to land
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Women’s Access to Legal Information - By Vivien Savath

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2011
Global
women
legal empowerment
gender equity in access to land
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How to engage with the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)

ILC Infonote

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2012
Global
women
land rights
land policies
advocacy
gender equity in access to land
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Broken Lands, Broken Lives? Causes, processes and impacts of land fragementation in the rangelands of Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Eastern Africa
Land & Investments
gender equity in access to land
land governance
food security
land policies
land grabbing
land rights
landlessness
land conflicts
common property
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
extractive industries
The report considers the causes, processes and impacts of rangeland fragmentation on pastoralists in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. Causes and processes include privatisation of resources, commercial investment, invasion of land by non-native plants, commercialisation including growth in individual enclosures, and conservation/National Parks. The impacts include increasing wealth divides and a growing inability to overcome and vulnerability to drought.
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Making Rangelands Secure: Past Experience and Future Options

A Working Document Version 1.0

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2012
Global
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
common property
rural development
land governance
land area
natural resources management
gender equity in access to land
environment
Significant progress has been made over the past decade or so in the development of policy and legislation that support the recognition of customary rights to land, with important legal rulings in Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, South Sudan, and South Africa. At the same time, the strengthening of communities’ traditional rights to use resources has progressed through community forest reserves and community conservation areas.
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Women's Land Rights and customary tenure in Uganda

A contribution from the Land and Equity Movement (LEMU) for the on-line discussion "How can women's land rights be secured?"

Reports & Research
January, 2010
Uganda
women
land rights
legal empowerment
gender equity in access to land
Judy Adoko, Executive Director at the Land and Equity Movement (LEMU, Uganda) sent us a set of documents as a contribution for the on-line discussion "How can women's land rights be secured?".

You can find the following documents below, in attachment:
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Agroecology: Exploring opportunities for women’s empowerment based on experiences from Brazil

FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES TOWARDS TRANSFORMING ECONOMIC POWER

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Brazil
farmers
women
advocacy
gender equity in access to land
This paper on agroecology and women's empowerment in Brazil includes a long section on "The Right to Land and Natural Resources in Brazil" from a feminist perspective. It is published by the Association of Women’s Rights in Development (AWID). The summary of this article follows.
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How can women's land rights be secured? - Synthesis of the online discussion

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2012
Global
women
land rights
gender equity in access to land
From 23 January to 6 February, ILC held an online discussion leading up to the ILC-IFAD-FAO side event at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), 27 February – 9 March 2012, New York. The discussion was held simultaneously on the Land Portal and in the FSN-Forum – 70 contributions were received from 32 countries, from grassroots activists, researchers, NGOs and government staff.
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Margaret Sekaggya

Report to the Human Rights Council - A/HRC/19/55

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Global
Land & Investments
Indigenous Peoples
women
land rights
land grabbing
extractive industries
gender equity in access to land
environment
I am sharing this extremely important report from Margaret Sekaggya, the Special Rapporteur of the situation of human rights defenders (2011). In 2007 the former Special Rapporteur, Hina Jilani, affirmed that “the second most vulnerable group when it comes to danger of being killed because of their activities in the defence of human rights, are defenders working on land rights and natural resources” (Hina Jilani, 2007, Report submitted to the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/4/37).
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El Salvador: Technical assistance on women’s land agreements

IFAD women’s land rights project: Opportunities and challenges

Reports & Research
January, 2009
El Salvador
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land rights
research
rural development
women
Poor rural women are among the most vulnerable people in El Salvador, where the Reconstruction and Rural Modernization Programme was launched in 2003 to aid areas stricken by earthquakes two years earlier. Women’s land tenure was not initially a central theme of the programme. The issue had to be addressed, however, when women – a large segment of the target population – were unable to benefit from an investment fund for rural economic development because they had no access to land.