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Moving the Needle Forward on Land Rights in the Sustainable Development Goals
This blog originally appeared on Land Portal. By Tim Hanstad A relatively obscure and technical determination earlier this week by
Local Movement Leveraging the Sustainable Development Goals to Strengthen Women’s Land Rights in Brazil
This blog was originally published by SDG Funders. By Patricia Chaves, Jolyne Sanjak and Malcolm Childress On Feb. 1, 2017,
Securing Rural Land Rights to Achieve Sustainable Cities
This blog was originally published by Place. By Beth Roberts The final draft of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) will
Women’s Land Rights Key to Enacting Gender-Responsive International Climate Change Action
This blog originally appeared in National Geographic: Changing Planet. By Jennifer Duncan, Sr. Attorney and Land Tenure Specialist at Landesa and Fiona
Free from Harm: Rights to Land and a Brighter Future for Women
I’ll never forget the day one of my students in Bangladesh told me she had to drop out of school.
Guest Blog from Ford Foundation
by Margaret A. Rugadya, Program Officer Landesa, the Seattle-based land rights organization and a Ford partner, is this year’s recipient
Beijing at 20 – How the Visionary Platform Works for Women’s Land Rights Today
Twenty years ago, the fourth world conference on women hosted in Beijing broke all the records – more than 47,000
Making the Sustainable Development Goals a Reality for Women in Tanzania
This blog was originally published by Thomson Reuters Foundation Women’s rights advocates from Tanzania’s civil society and the government sector
Why Women Deserve to Be Counted
In his July 26 speech to a packed Safaricom Indoor Arena in Nairobi, Kenya, U.S. President Barack Obama told his
Brazil’s Women Leaders Meet to Discuss: The Intersection of Interests for Women’s Land Rights
Scores of women leaders from across Brazil, including indigenous and Afro-Brazilian, rural and urban, from government and civil society, gathered








