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Despite courts, the plot is against daughters

A new court ruling in India expands the scope of a daughter’s right to inherit land, but the bigger picture
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Inheritance Of Agricultural Land By Women: There Is Distance Yet To Travel

Shipra Deo and Robert Mitchell summarize progress toward securing inheritance rights for women in India.
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Implementing progressive laws can accelerate securing women’s land rights in Francophone Africa

Modern land reforms remain indispensable to tackle gender inequality in areas where customary discriminatory practices are dominant. Landesa intern Joy
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Securing Land Rights for Indigenous Peoples & Rural Communities Can Activate Critical Change Agents in the Fight Against Climate Change

Although Indigenous and rural communities are vital to the fight against climate change, in many countries these populations struggle to obtain formal
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The Road to Resilience in a Post-COVID World: Stronger Land Rights for Women

Gender-responsive land tenure and property rights interventions can be an important catalyst in bringing the kind of revolutionary change necessary
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“Land rights are the foundation that enables the realization of all the other Sustainable Development Goals”

Iniciativa Tierra y ODS (Land and SDG Initiative) spoke with Diana Fletschner about the land-related SDG commitments, what has been
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Eight Breakthroughs for Land Rights in 2020

2020 was a tough year on many fronts, and land rights were no exception. COVID-19 hindered land rights advocates from
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Global Land Risks and Opportunities in Corporate Supply Chains

Land-related risks are vastly underappreciated by corporate and environmental attorneys representing clients around the globe. This article seeks to raise
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Gender Equality: Women, Land, and Data

Closing a data gap may seem technocratic and boring. But the social and economic empowerment prospects of more than one
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Rituals of marriage create untold suffering for millions of widows in India

The ideal of a married woman decorated with sindoor, sakha, and bichiya is romanticized through legend and folklore; steeped in
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