Monthly Archives: June 2012

Op-Ed by Landesa in the New York Times calling for secure land rights in Myanmar

JUNE 13, 2012 — In today’s New York Times, Landesa founder, Roy Prosterman, and Landesa senior attorney, Darryl Vhugen, authored an editorial about how Myanmar can lay the foundation for sustained economic progress by providing legal rights to land for its citizens – especially its millions of smallholder farmers.
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Maasai Elders Vow to Protect and Support Rights of Women and Girls

JUNE 12, 2012 — Dozens Maasai elders in the Kenyan highlands – who serve as symbols and enforcers of their community’s conservative cultural traditions — have vowed to uphold an entirely new tradition: equal rights for women and girls.
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