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13 March 2024
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Revista Amazonas
South America
Brazil

O 8M foi de luta na comunidade de Caranguejo Tabaiares. Foi dia de caminhar pela comunidade, e nos reconhecer na luta cotidiana pela vida das mulheres e pela sobrevivência. As participantes levaram cartazes com mensagens importantes sobre os direitos das mulheres, com frases que enfatizam a necessidade de conscientização pelo fim da violência contra as mulheres, feminicídios e violência doméstica. Caminhamos pelos becos e ruas dentro e fora de Caranguejo a fim de mostrar o cansaço por intermináveis horas de trabalho e para reclamar nosso direito de permanecer e defender o nosso território tão desejado pelo capitalismo e a especulação imobiliária. 

Reflections on land rights from Aspen Seminar
13 February 2024
Authors: 
Dr. Elizabeth Daley
Global

What I learned about land rights from people who don't work in land rights

indigenas guaraníes
30 January 2024
Latin America and the Caribbean
South America
Bolivia

Desde una comunidad en el corazón de la crisis climática, la lideresa guaraní Mariela Melgar Ibáñez cree que las mujeres indígenas tienen la clave para resolver la crisis climática. “El mundo debe conocer nuestras formas de vida y el rol que tenemos dentro de el cuidado del medio ambiente; Las mujeres somos fundamentales, luchamos por el territorio.”

People are hungry for this knolwedge
9 January 2024
Africa
Tanzania
Global

Traditional Maasai leader and Gender and Land Champion - Peter Sangeyon has become a force for change in his community since taking part in WOLTS training.

women land rights campaign chad
9 October 2023
Authors: 
Mr. Neil Sorensen
Chad

Chad is at the verge of an emerging land tenure crisis. As observed in many countries in Africa, formal and customary tenure systems overlap. Customary tenure systems, that generally prevail in rural areas, differ from region to region, with each its own needs and practices. Land conflicts are abundant, caused by degradation and transformation of land surfaces caused by climate change, as well as land investments by domestic investors with disputed legitimacy. Women, particularly, struggle in practice to obtain the same rights to land as men, even though country’s constitution enshrines gender equality.

So much has changed since I became a gender and land champion
29 September 2023
Africa
Tanzania
Global

Traditional Maasai leader Milya shares how confident he has become in defending women's land rights after training as a gender and land champion.

Unknowing abuse
19 September 2023
Asia
Mongolia
Global

Tuya describes her decision to take action on GBV in her Mongolian herding community after becoming a gender and land champion.

Building a sustainable model for women and community land rights
16 May 2023
Authors: 
Dr. Elizabeth Daley
Africa
Tanzania
Asia
Mongolia
Global

The WOLTS experience has given me hope for the future. Change is possible.

WOLTS gender and land champions in Tanzania
27 April 2023
Authors: 
Joyce Ndakaru
Africa
Eastern Africa
Tanzania
Global

Many rural communities in Tanzania share similar challenges from mining companies and investors. I have seen first-hand how men and women gender and land champions can help.

26 May 2022
Authors: 
Miss Olipa Katongo Kunda
Zambia

Just like many African countries, a majority of Zambian tribes follow a matrilineal system, that is, an affinity system in which descent is derived through maternal instead of paternal lines which essentially means children are recognised by the names or family of their mothers. This does not only affect decent but also involves the inheritance of titles and property including land through the female line. One might ask why women have less access and control of land in Zambia when land and property is inherited through maternal lines.

 

To secure equal rights to land, bring men and women together
13 July 2021
Authors: 
Dr. Elizabeth Daley
Tanzania
Mongolia
Global

There is an underlying tension in the land rights movement that is rarely addressed head on, which is the perception that securing women’s land rights threatens community land rights. Community land rights are typically held by indigenous people, small-scale and subsistence farmers, pastoralists, herders and many other groups who are directly dependent on land for their livelihoods but whose land tenure is often the most precarious.