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    Removing Legal Barriers for Achieving Gender Equality.

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    June, 2016
    India

    Women’s land rights (WLR) have been and continue to be a live agenda in social development discourse of India. The importance of WLR has been discussed in the context of agriculture; poverty reduction; reduction in gender based violence; women’s well-being and agency.This policy brief outlines the gaps that exist in the realisation of women’s land rights on agricultural land and calls for immediate collective action aimed at removing the structural barriers in inheritance, leasing, and joint ownership of privately held land in favour of women.

  2. Library Resource
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    The Cost of Corruption

    Reports & Research
    May, 2016
    Zimbabwe, Ghana
  3. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2016
    Global

    Gender issues are relegated to the periphery in current debates and approaches concerning the sustainable governance of oil palm in Indonesia. However, ongoing research by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) points to the critical roles that women play as workers, smallholders and members of affected local communities. Gender inequities follow as oil palm expansion displaces local women from land on which they cultivate food crops.

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