Online Discussion on Rural Women on Wikigender.org - Now Closed | Land Portal

Dear friends,

Wikigender is hosting a new online discussion leading up to a side event co-organised by the OECD Development Centre and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, at the 56th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women on 1 March. The discussion is on:

Equal rights to resources: the key to empowering rural women. But what's stopping it?

We would like to invite you to actively participate in this discussion, which will start on Monday 13 February at 9am and end on Wednesday 22 February. The outcomes of the discussion will be presented at the side event in New York.  It would be great if you could participate during the discussion with a contribution/comment. Please let us know if you are available.  We would also appreciate if you could help us publicise the discussion as much as possible, via your websites, networks, newsletters, contacts.

We are particularly interested in your contributions on the following questions:·        

  1. How does discrimination in access to, and control over, resources such as land and property influence rural women and girls’ social and economic outcomes?
  2. How does discrimination against rural women and girls relate to broader policy challenges such as food insecurity, climate change and poverty?·        
  3. What are examples of successful approaches for ensuring women and girls’ rights to resources (land, credit, other), both in the law and practice on the ground?·        
  4. What actions should governments, donors, UN bodies and civil society take to address discrimination against rural women and girls?

Many thanks on behalf of the Wikigender Team and we look forward to your participation!

Kind regards,

Estelle

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