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25 Marzo 2019
WASHINGTON, March 25, 2019 – Women in half of the countries in the world are unable to assert equal land and property rights despite legal protections, warned members of a new global campaign that formally launches today. The campaign, Stand For Her Land, aims to close this persistent gap between…
21 Marzo 2019
The Land for Life Award was launched at the UNCCD COP10 in the Republic of Korea as part of the Changwon Initiative. This Award recognizes the excellence and innovation of individuals, groups, institutions and businesses whose work and initiatives have made a significant contribution towards…
21 Marzo 2019
NEW DELHI - A push to formalise land claims, map settlements and digitise records is not always in the best interests of vulnerable communities, and may even lead to greater rights abuses, analysts warned on Friday.
From Peru to the Philippines, governments are curtailing the rights of indigenous…
19 Marzo 2019
Por meio da Cooperação Sul-Sul, treinamento e orientações técnicas sobre produção de arroz foram fornecidos a agricultores africanos. Agora, a Costa do Marfim comemora uma farta colheita do produto. Foto: FAO/Wang Jinbiao
Mais de 1 mil pessoas, incluindo delegações governamentais e…
18 Marzo 2019
Women’s economic empowerment is a necessary step to promote women’s rights and achieve gender equality. Throughout the last decades, women have been entering the labor market and, despite the still existing inequalities in terms of wages and opportunities, there are many sectors in which women have…
8 Marzo 2019
In more than a decade of working on women’s land rights, I have often been asked the question “where is the evidence?” While we have more and more insight into how secure land rights benefit women, men, and communities, the question remains “how to get there?”: we don’t know as much as we should (…
6 Marzo 2019
Como mano de obra copan el 45% del mercado en algunos países, pero apenas un 20% de ellas son propietarias. La FAO afirma que los rendimientos agrícolas se triplicarían en igualdad de condiciones de acceso a la tierra
Las mujeres siempre han estado en el campo, aunque muchas veces, como en…
5 Marzo 2019
PENAMPANG: The country’s first indigenous Chief Justice Tan Sri Richard Malanjum may get a “tweak on the ear” when the United Nation Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples makes her official visit to Malaysia.
Senator Adrian Lasimbang said on Monday that Malanjum’s appointment to…
2 Marzo 2019
In El Estor, Guatemala, women lead fight for land rights despite added risk of sexual violence and stigma.
El Estor, Guatemala - Since her teen years, Maria Magdalena Cuc Choc, now 39, has defended the natural resources of El Estor, a predominantly Mayan Q'eqchi' community on the western edge of…
1 Marzo 2019
As data enthusiasts, we believe in the power that data holds and are strong proponents for democratizing information, making it easy to share and reuse. Despite this, data scientists and those working with data in general, often struggle to communicate how and why data are essential and potentially…
1 Marzo 2019
As the Samburu fight for control over natural resources, Samburu women are demanding to be heard
The Samburu, a pastoralist indigenous tribe from the vast semi-arid and arid rangelands of Northern Kenya, face many of the same challenges as other indigenous communities around the world. They have…
20 Febrero 2019
A new UN Declaration protects peasant rights to land, seeds, and adequate incomes with an emphasis on civil and social rights.
Peasants, which includes small-scale farmers, rural workers, fishing communities, pastoralists and landless agriculture workers, have been recognized as a vulnerable…