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LANDESA trains Land Rights actors, stakeholders

The New Dawn wrote about a two-day workshop that Landesa hosted in Monrovia, Liberia on Land Rights for Sustainable Development
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‘We train women on land literacy… good laws relating to gender equality in land ownership are not enough’

Rudroneel Ghosh from Times of India interviewed Landesa’s Chief Program Officer Karol Boudreaux on the sidelines of Women Deliver 2019

MEDIA ADVISORY: ‘Creating a Gender Equal World’ side event and more Landesa activities at Women Deliver 2019 Global Conference

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 24, 2019 Contact: tylerr@landesa.org Land rights are at the intersection of multiple global development, human rights
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China eyes further reforms to rural land laws

Landesa founder Roy Prosterman discusses rural land reform with Chinese deputy minister of agriculture During a visit to Beijing on
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Women in Half the World Still Denied Land, Property Rights Despite Laws

Global campaign Stand For Her Land aims to bridge gap between law and practice so that women can realize their
Women farmers in rural China face appropriation of their land in favor of commercial development

New Chinese land laws will help strengthen land rights of 240 million families

In the most significant reforms to Chinese land laws in more than 15 years, the Chinese government adopted several new
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Hundreds of Indian land laws cause confusion, conflict: researchers

Shipra Deo, Landesa Director Of Women’s Land Rights in India, was interviewed by Reuters Foundation’s Place about women’s inheritance rights
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Law of the Land: Women Gain Ground in Courts Around the World

Women Deliver published a blog by Beth Roberts and Godfrey Massay that highlights recent legal gains for women’s land rights –
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New Online Discussion Aims To Support the Passage of a Bill that Safeguards the Land Rights of All Liberians

Understand the context behind Liberia’s ongoing Land Rights Bill debate, and join the Land Portal online discussion from July 18
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Women call on Liberia’s Weah to keep his promise of equal land rights

Thomson Reuters Foundation interviewed Landesa’s Africa director Jennifer Duncan about the most current draft of Liberia’s Land Rights Act and
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