El control de activos condiciona la posibilidad de que las familias puedan lograr un desarrollo adecuado de sus capacidades, superar la situación de pobreza y dinamizar sus territorios; esta condición es particularmente válida considerando la situación de las mujeres.
La mayor parte de los países de la región latinoamericana reconocen y garantizan en sus Constituciones el derecho a la tierra para las poblaciones que dependen de ella, pues este recurso es indispensable para su subsistencia, seguridad e identidad. Las condiciones de su acceso a la tierra, por lo tanto, tienen consecuencias en la seguridad alimentaria, y en la disminución o incremento de la pobreza de dichas poblaciones.
This briefing paper is prepared as part of the advocacy of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) for the respect, protection and recognition of the human rights of indigenous women. In this paper, we focus on access to justice for indigenous women in Southeast Asia facing development-induced violence.
This issue brief highlights the challenges women are facing on access to lands, and the strategies in achieving gender justice for land rights - based from the results of the scoping studies on women and land in seven Asian countries (Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and Philippines).
This publication is a collection of scoping studies on women and land in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and Philippines. It outlines the statuses of women's land rights in each country, the legal frameworks covering such rights, the key factors promoting or impending women's land rights, and the strategies to address gender inequality and advance women's rights to own and benefit from the land.
In a first study of this kind, International Justice Mission has used mixed methods assessment to portray the depth of widow and orphan property grabbing problem and lack of justice system response in Mukono County, Uganda. The report demonstrates that nearly a third of widows have experienced land grabbing with virtually no criminal justice system response.
En 2008, Naciones Unidas incluyó entre los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio una nueva Meta del Milenio (1.B) que propone “lograr el empleo pleno y productivo y el trabajo decente para todos, en particular para las mujeres y los jóvenes”, subrayando la importancia del empleo en la superación de la pobreza y en la mejora de las condiciones de vida de la población.
Last 25-26 October 2010, the Association for Land Reform and Rural Development (ALRD), the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) and the International Land Coalition (ILC) jointly organised this Regional Workshop on Women and Land Rights, as a response to the urgent need to cast the spotlight on women and their access to and ownership of land. The objectives of the workshop were identifying strategic areas and developing a road map for 2011-2012, to strengthen ILC Asia’s work on women’s land rights.
The year 2016 marks 15 years since the new wave land reforms became operational in Tanzania. Despite its ambitious goals – encouraging land registration and titling, and empowering women and other vulnerable groups – the results are disillusioning. A brief overview of 15 years of implementation, using the Village Land Act as a case study.
It would be difficult to imagine the diet of the local consumers around Lake Victoria without the silver cyprinid. The small fresh water sardine also plays an important role in women’s participation in Kenya’s fishery sector. However, in spite of intensive efforts, there is still a long way to go before they have achieved an equal role in the value chain.
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