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   Género y tierra en América Latina Situación de las mujeres rurales y sus luchas por la tierra

   Sistematización de debate latinoamericano en línea

   Reports & Research

   June, 2017

   Latin America and the Caribbean, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela

   Land & Gender

   gender equity in access to land

   land rights

   women

   Es una realidad que hay contradicciones en cuanto al manejo y la tenencia de la tierra en América Latina, siendo una situación importante que impacta en las economías locales y en la vida de millones de personas. Aunque en las últimas dos décadas la mayoría de los países latinoamericanos han implementado en su legislación medidas para promover el acceso y derecho de la mujer a la tierra, siguen existiendo limitaciones que no han permitido un mayor avance hacia la equidad en la distribución de la tierra.

2. Library Resource

   

   Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

   International Conventions or Treaties

   January, 1979

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   Land & Gender

   gender equity in access to land

   land rights

   advocacy

   farmers

   women

   The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) - currently ratified by 187 countries - is the only human rights treaty that deals specifically with rural women (Art. 14). Adopted in 1979 by the United Nations Generally Assembly, entered into force in 1981. The Convention defines discrimination against women as follows: