Watch our virtual panel as part of the Skoll World Forum’s Ecosystem Day to hear about how rural land users, including women, Indigenous Peoples, and youth are emerging as powerful change agents in advancing climate mitigation and adaptation.
This event examines the intersection of women’s land rights, sustainable land use, and the climate crisis by highlighting the connection between gender-sensitive land rights reforms, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and sustainable land use strategies related to women’s skills and knowledge, such as in water and agriculture. U.S. Government officials will join to share efforts related to this nexus.
This event will feature speakers from research institutions and CSOs from around the world to highlight current opportunities and ongoing efforts to increase gender-equitable land rights as a strategy for climate mitigation and adaptation in forests, wetlands, and agricultural lands.
This event features voices from the Stand for Her Land (S4HL) campaign – grassroots leaders from both rural and urban communities who hold deep expertise on securing gender equal rights for women, and engaging men and whole communities for gender justice.
This virtual event, hosted by Devex in partnership with the Hilton Foundation, will explore how investing in girl’s education can help increase their resilience to climate change, but also how it can play a key role in fostering girls’ and women’s climate leadership and climate action.
Join us for a conversation at COP26 about the critical role women play in building climate resilient food systems. Virtual webcast link available.
The rapid and crucial shift from fossil fuels to renewables has witnessed a familiar trend: Women — especially rural and indigenous women — are severely marginalized in decisions about land use.
To mark International Human Rights Day, Landesa’s Tizai Mauto and women’s land rights & gender expert Grace Ananda explore a few of the most pernicious inequalities to surface from the COVID-19 pandemic, and a common challenge they share: insecure rights to land.
Closing a data gap may seem technocratic and boring. But the social and economic empowerment prospects of more than one billion largely poor women who lack secure, legal land and property rights hinges on the success of these efforts.
The ideal of a married woman decorated with sindoor, sakha, and bichiya is romanticized through legend and folklore; steeped in this culture, women themselves see value in these rituals. Millions of women in India do not even imagine that these discriminatory and patriarchal rituals are not supernaturally ordained and blind them to the reality that the revered status given to suhagins causes untold suffering to any woman (widow) who does not fit the ideal.