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Obituary: Roy L. Prosterman, 1935-2025

Roy L. Prosterman, a global development expert and activist whose pioneering vision and tireless advocacy for democratic, inclusive land rights
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Landesa receives $20 million gift from author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott

The new funding is a direct investment in Landesa’s efforts to accelerate gender equality and arrest the climate crisis.
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Global women’s land rights campaign launches in Africa 

Nairobi, 8 March 2022— Leaders and campaigners from across the world today launched Stand for Her Land in Africa, a
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‘This is not your home’ – Revealing a brutal system of oppression and gender discrimination among India’s Scheduled Tribes 

Researchers for a global land rights organization have published a grim assessment of the land and inheritance rights of women
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July Plotlines: Effective solutions to climate injustice & gender inequality

Closing the land rights gender gap post-COVID; Welcoming Dr. Margaret Rugadya; Meet Dr. S B Lokesh.

Five years into the Sustainable Development Goals, land rights advocacy group finds little progress toward land degradation neutrality, with severe consequences for the fight against climate change

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tyler Roush, tylerr@landesa.org | +1 206.257.6135 Five years into the Sustainable Development Goals, land rights advocacy

Press Release: India’s murky inheritance laws reinforce gender discrimination, undermine women’s land rights

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For interviews, please contact Tyler Roush, tylerr@landesa.org India’s murky inheritance laws reinforce gender discrimination, undermine women’s land

COP25 Side Event: Human Rights and Climate Action

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Human Rights and Climate Action – A COP25 Side Event Global Perspectives on How Governments can Fulfill

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

Women Deliver Side Event: Creating a Gender Equal World: The Transformative Power of Women’s Land Rights

Cocktail reception and networking opportunity with leading voices in land rights and women’s empowerment FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 30, 2019
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