After two years trying to reclaim their inheritance rights to their family’s forestland, three sisters in a remote county of Chongqing, China found Landesa’s legal aid center to defend their land rights
Meet the women, men, and families around the world who have benefited from access to stronger land rights.
Around the globe, from the streets of London to the Arab world’s public squares, youth and disenfranchisement have proved a potent combination. But Surendra Sabar, a 27-year-old from Odisha, India, is now a great supporter of his government.
Bali Sabar’s journey from typical unemployed and hopeless youth to village savior began in a humble but powerful meeting.
When her husband died in 2009, Gladys Chepkorir had no time to linger on the grief. “Immediately after he died, his family started to ask me for the title deed,” she said. Her mother-in-law told her that in spite of the three daughters Gladys and her husband had together, Gladys’ husband had died “like a tree without limbs, because he died without heirs, without sons.”
With a land title, Liberata could feed her children and afford to send …
The Girls Project, a partnership between the government of West Bengal and Landesa, …
Grace’s story is one that touches on many of the most sensitive issues …