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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

LANDESA, IN COMPLIANCE WITH NEW REGULATIONS, APPROVED TO CONTINUE LAND POLICY WORK IN MAINLAND CHINA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tyler Roush tylerr@landesa.org | 206-257-6135 SEATTLE, Wash. — Landesa, a US-based global nonprofit organization focused on
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Sustaining Sustainable Development: Leveraging Human Rights Norms to Implement Land-related Goals

Impakter published a blog by Beth Roberts on how international standards for human rights can strengthen implementation of the Sustainable

William H. Gates Sr. to Receive the Roy L. Prosterman Humanitarian Award

Landesa’s Annual Seed the Change Gala William H. Gates Sr. to Receive The Roy L. Prosterman Humanitarian Award For Immediate
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Now, nameplates in Satara have both Mr and Mrs

An article on joint titling in the Satara district of Maharashtra state, India, cites a 2014 study conducted by Landesa.

Full implementation of the SDGs land rights indicators needed to ensure a successful Agenda 2030

Recommendation for the Inter-Agency Expert Group on SDGs (IAEG-SDG) meeting, 11-14 November 2017, Manama, Bahrain In 2015, all countries committed
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Joint Statement on International Day of Rural Women

In an unprecedented development, the United Nations Working Group on Discrimination Against Women in Law and Practice recently adopted a position paper
of 18 pages