A guest post by Bholanath Chakladar, a District Project Manager for Landesa India in West Bengal. This post originally appeared on Landesa's Field Focus Blog.
Last week, 55,339 destitute families across West Bengal received legal title to a micro-plot of land. The state of West Bengal, in partnership with Landesa, has been on the forefront of addressing extreme rural poverty through providing poor, landless, rural families with a small plot of land where they can live and grow food. Thus far, West Bengal has provided more than 160,000 landless families with micro-plots.
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Library Resourcefévrier, 2014Bangladesh, Inde, Pakistan
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Library Resourceaoût, 2013Bangladesh, Inde, Indonésie, Myanmar, Pakistan
A guest post by Ashok Sircar, India Program Director of Landesa, a USAID partner and global organization that partners with governments to help secure land rights of the poor. Follow them @Landesa_Global
There is growing recognition that India cannot solve many of its critical development challenges if it doesn’t help the 20 million landless rural families and the millions more who lack legal rights to the land they till. -
Library ResourceRapports et recherchesjanvier, 2012Bangladesh, Indonésie, Inde, Cambodge, Sri Lanka, Népal, Pakistan, Philippines
This expanded edition presents regional and country perspectives on access to land for the rural poor from the eight countries-Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines and Sri Lanka. It makes assessments of land reforms and their implementation, and the legal frameworks and conditions necessary to advance land rights. The publication also examines the changing roles of government, the private sector, NGOs and civil society in influencing agrarian reform and sustainable development for the rural poor.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesjanvier, 2009Asie, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Inde, Népal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
This is a 2009 study undertaken by the Rural Development Institute, now Landesa, and authored by Elisa Scalise. It focuses on six South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) and addresses both formal and customary laws and pratices governing women's inheritance rights.
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Library ResourceConventions internationales et traitésjanvier, 1979Égypte, Libye, Maroc, Soudan, Tunisie, Burundi, Comores, Djibouti, Érythrée, Éthiopie, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Maurice, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalie, Ouganda, Zambie, Zimbabwe, Cameroun, République centrafricaine, Tchad, Guinée équatoriale, Gabon, Sao Tomé-et-Principe, Lesotho, Namibie, Afrique du Sud, Eswatini, Burkina Faso, Cap-Vert, Gambie, Ghana, Guinée, Guinée-Bissau, Libéria, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Nigéria, Sénégal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Cuba, Dominique, République dominicaine, Grenade, Haïti, Jamaïque, Saint-Kitts-et-Nevis, Sainte-Lucie, Trinité-et-Tobago, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexique, Nicaragua, Panama, Chili, Colombie, Équateur, Guyana, Paraguay, Pérou, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, Canada, États-Unis d'Amérique, Kazakhstan, Kirghizistan, Tadjikistan, Turkménistan, Ouzbékistan, Chine, Japon, Mongolie, Cambodge, Indonésie, Malaisie, Myanmar, Philippines, Thaïlande, Timor-Leste, Viet Nam, Inde, Iran, Maldives, Népal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Géorgie, Iraq, Israël, Jordanie, Koweït, Liban, Oman, Qatar, Arabie saoudite, République arabe syrienne, Turquie, Émirats arabes unis, Yémen, Bulgarie, République tchèque, Hongrie, Moldova, Pologne, Roumanie, Fédération de Russie, Slovaquie, Ukraine, Danemark, Estonie, Finlande, Islande, Irlande, Lettonie, Lituanie, Norvège, Suède, Royaume-Uni, Croatie, Grèce, Italie, Macédoine du Nord, Malte, Monténégro, Portugal, Saint-Marin, Serbie, Slovénie, Espagne, France, Allemagne, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Pays-Bas, Nouvelle-Zélande, Fidji, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Îles Salomon, Kiribati, Îles Marshall, Nauru, Palaos, Îles Cook, Nioué, Samoa, Tonga
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:
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