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Beijing at 20 – How the Visionary Platform Works for Women’s Land Rights Today

Twenty years ago, the fourth world conference on women hosted in Beijing broke ...

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September 14, 2015

Why gender equality must include customary laws

This blog was originally published by World Economic Forum. By Tzili Mor One ...

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August 21, 2015

Making the Sustainable Development Goals a Reality for Women in Tanzania

This blog was originally published by Thomson Reuters Foundation Women’s rights advocates from ...

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August 20, 2015

Why Women Deserve to Be Counted

In his July 26 speech to a packed Safaricom Indoor Arena in Nairobi, Kenya, U.S. President Barack Obama told his audience that “any nation that fails to educate its girls or employ its women and allow them to maximize their potential is doomed to fall behind in a global economy.”

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August 14, 2015

Brazil’s Women Leaders Meet to Discuss: The Intersection of Interests for Women’s Land Rights

Scores of women leaders from across Brazil, including indigenous and Afro-Brazilian, rural and urban, from government and civil society, gathered in Recife, the capital of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco last week to call for concrete indicators focused on women’s economic empowerment to be among the measures of progress toward the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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August 12, 2015