Press Release: India’s murky inheritance laws reinforce gender discrimination, undermine women’s land rights
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In half the countries in the world, women face obstacles to land rights, leaving millions unable to unlock their full potential. But this challenge is #Solvable.
Landesa researcher Gina Alvarado explains why women’s land rights are #Solvable through legal reforms and challenging gender norms. Sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, #Solvable mini-films drive awareness of global issues that are solvable in the next generation.
The gender gap in land manifests itself in a stark reality – around the world, less than 15% of all landholders are women, despite the fact that women comprise 43% of the agricultural workforce in the developing world.
Women Deliver published a blog by Karol Boudreaux, Landesa’s Chief Program Officer, about the existing gender gap in land rights, and the benefits of closing this gap for rural women everywhere.
The Coalition of Women Leaders for the Environment and Sustainable Development (CFLEDD) noted Landesa’s support in crafting the Explanatory Note on Women’s Land and Forest Rights in the DRC published earlier this week in Kinshasa.
By Beth Roberts | Investments in women’s land rights are a prerequisite to full and substantive gender equality that benefits those most in need.
Thomson Reuters Foundation published an op-ed by Landesa’s Beth Roberts about the ways …