It is time to include equal inheritance for girls as an integral part of our solutions towards their equal self-worth, dignity and opportunity.
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Shipra Deo outlines why it is time to include equal inheritance for girls as an integral part of our solutions towards their equal self-worth, dignity and opportunity.
Shipra Deo and Robert Mitchell summarize progress toward securing inheritance rights for women in India.
Learn more about our partnership with Rising Tide Foundation and Sanghas to create Sangha Service Centers, women-led business centers in West Bengal that help women update their land records to access agricultural services, improving yield & sustainable land management.
Live Law published a blog by Landesa Director of Women’s Land Rights, India, Shipra Deo and Asia Region Sr. Director Robert Mitchell, summarizing progress toward securing inheritance rights for women in India.
Working alongside women’s community groups, Landesa is bringing gender-sensitive land resources to women in rural West Bengal.
So far in 2021, Landesa’s programs have strengthened land rights for over 760,000 people. Read more about gender-sensitive land services in India, updates from Myanmar and Cambodia, and additional program highlights in our latest Impact Report.
Landesa statistics on women in farm work were cited in an article about low-cost innovations in farming.
A discriminatory land governance system coupled with gendered social norms result in violence and oppression of women in Jharkhand, India.
Landesa’s Pinaki Halder chronicles the discriminatory land governance system and gendered social norms that result in violence and oppression of women in Jharkhand, India, along with suggested short and long-term solutions.