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[via Yousra Yusuf, Women Deliver] September 24th, 2012- Women operate the majority of small farms and contribute more than 75% of all agricultural work worldwide, yet few of them own the land they cultivate an
OKFest, Helsinki, 17-22 September 2012- OKFEST was the world’s first Open Knowledge Festival: a week of participatory sessions, keynote lectures, workshops, hackathons and satellite events looking at the value that can be generated by opening up knowledge and the impacts transparency can have in our societies.
[adapted from UNWomen]
27 September 2012-“Accelerating Progress Toward the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women” is a five-year initiative of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World Food Programme (WFP) to be initially implem
[from SABC News] Women's rights are human rights, President Jacob Zuma said in a speech prepared for delivery at the high-level event on women's access to justice on the margins of the 67th sitting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
[adapted from Think Africa Press] In the Uganja area of the Nyanza Province in Kenya, upon death of their husband, many widows land is forcibly taken away from them by their in-laws. Such practices render most widows landless in communities where they lack the right to inherit property, leaving them isolated and left alone, especially if illiterate.
Have a look at the following article, creating the link between land rights and access to education for all... This is another argument in favor of land reforms wherever needed! To read the article click on the link below.
September 20, 2012
The development team along with other Land Observatory key members have been in Laos for the past couple of days, conducting our first, intensive co-development workshop with Lao government partners and civil society partners Land Issues Working Group.
Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights and the World Organisation against Torture), WITNESS, Amnesty International and Freedom House call for the immediate release
[Jamal Ayub via The Times of India] Dubbed as one the biggest non-violent actions in the recent past, about one lakh people representing some 2000 organizations, would walk 380 km from Gwalior to Delhi from October 2. The 'Jan Satyagrah Samvad yatra' is aimed to raise attention about land and livelihood rights of marginalized people.
South Africa and the African continent would experience unprecedented levels of urbanisation in the next few decades which would present major challenges that governments and urban planners needed to be more aware of, Planning Minister Trevor Manuel warned yesterday.
Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE) is a non-governmental organization whose mission is to promote gender equality in all areas of decision making through advocacy, training, research, and publications.
The Global Water Partnership and the International Land Coalition are committed to work together to promote integrated land and water governance, with an emphasis on knowledge generation and sharing. This collaboration will build on the fact that the Director of the International Land Coalition Secretariat, has been recently appointed as member of GWP’s Technical Advisory Committee.