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Confident Gender and Land Champions - New WOLTS Paper Published
23 May 2023
Latest paper from the WOLTS team offers new evidence of a sustainable approach to securing land rights for women and communities

Cameroon: Women's land rights remain in limbo
1 May 2023
Whereas Cameroonian law grant men and women equal access to land ownership, unofficial yet prevalent customary laws greatly restrict women’s right to own land.

Close to 20 local farmers are in jail for fighting for their land not to be taken by the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP)
24 April 2023
Conflict over land rights is escalating in Uganda as people are forced to make way for the East Africa Crude Oil pipeline.
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Webinar Recap: Indigenous Land Rights and the Biodiversity COP15 Six Months On
1 June 2023
Under the umbrella of the Land Dialogues series, the second webinar of this year’s series “Indigenous Land Rights and the Biodiversity COP15: Six Months On” took place on May 25th, 2023. The webinar drew in a little over 350 participants and featured panelists from Indigenous women leaders to…
Indigenous Land Rights and the Biodiversity COP15: Six Months On
25 May 2023
After two weeks of tense talks, the recent UN Biodiversity Conference COP15 ended with a landmark agreement to guide global action on nature through to 2030. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), includes concrete measures to halt and reverse nature loss, including putting 30%…