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Marriage or Inheritance: The Strange choice before daughters of Uttar Pradesh, India

Shipra Deo, Landesa’s Director of Women’s Land Rights, India, writes about a new amendment that expanded on the inheritance rights

MEDIA ADVISORY: The Climate Crisis, Global Land Use, and Human Rights

Date: Sept. 27, 2019, 9 am – 5 pm ET Location: Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, 320 East 43rd
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Learning across borders: Myanmar officials visit Vietnam to learn about land law drafting process

Twenty Myanmar government officials visited Vietnam and met with government officials, civil society organizations and farmers to learn about the
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Illovo collaborates with land rights NGO, UK’s DFID on land policy

In a statement to Engineering News, Illovo Sugar Africa recounts their collaboration with Landesa and the UK Department for International
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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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