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Land Rights for Women Mean Progress for Communities
This post originally appeared on the Huffington Post on November 24, 2014. If we want to empower rural women in the developing world, there is no better first step than providing them with secure...
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Women Help Girls in India with Land Rights Education
Swapna Dey with some of her “daughters.” Swapna Dey has dozens of daughters. They come to see her every Sunday afternoon. “The girls share everything with me,” Dey said, an energetic and petite...
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This post was originally published by the Financial Times’ This is Africa Online. In the week of 20 January, UN member states will begin the next phase of critically important negotiations on a new...
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The True Measure of Land’s Value
This post originally appeared on NextBillion. By Sabita Parida As a trained agriculturist, I have always measured the worth of land in a very scientific manner. I consider the climate, water resources...
View ArticleAccounting for land rights in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda
As U.N. member countries continue discussions regarding new sustainable development goals, targets and indicators to replace the expiring Millennium Development Goals, it is helpful to remember the...
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On Women’s Equality Day, Why Agitating for Gender Equity Still Matters
Ninety-five years ago today women in the United States gained access to the ballot box, thanks to the passage of the 19th amendment. This fundamental right of any democracy was no easy fight for the...
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Brazil’s Women Leaders Meet to Discuss: The Intersection of Interests for...
Scores of women leaders from across Brazil, including indigenous and Afro-Brazilian, rural and urban, from government and civil society, gathered in Recife, the capital of the Brazilian state of...
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Why Women Deserve to Be Counted
This blog post originally appeared on Devex. By Sanjoy Patnaik In his July 26 speech to a packed Safaricom Indoor Arena in Nairobi, Kenya, U.S. President Barack Obama told his audience that “any nation...
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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 met in Dar es Salaam last week to explore how the soon...
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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 participants from around the world and 189 governments crafted by consensus a defining,...
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