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18 Enero 2019
Welcome to 2019. In San Francisco, commuters shuttle to work in self-driving Ubers. In Rwanda, drones deliver blood to patients. In China, Xiaomi released a $500 phone that allows users to map the world with 30 centimeter accuracy.
And yet, a quarter of the world’s population lacks a fundamental…
11 Enero 2019
Las autoras critican las condiciones laborales de los agricultores, la vulneración de sus derechos y la miseria en la que viven muchos de ellos
Por : Hilal Elver y Melissa Shapiro
La comida es un narrador poderoso. Nuestra dieta indica si cocinamos en casa, si compramos localmente, si…
7 Enero 2019
By 2050, two thirds of the world’s population will live in urban areas. How cities develop will determine whether we can reduce economic and racial inequality, effectively address climate change, and meet many of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development goals. The human rights movement can help…
21 Diciembre 2018
Lack of transparency and corruption in the land sector are widespread problems in many countries. From murky and duplicitous land allocation practices to outright corrupt practices such as bribery of individuals, purging of land titles, or even the illegal large-scale sales of state land by public…
20 Diciembre 2018
In the last five years, significant steps have been taken to put land tenure security as a priority in global policy frameworks, but also in implementation plans. A side event at CFS45, organised by the Global Donor Working Group on Land with other key players, took stock of progress.
Since the…
13 Diciembre 2018
Making the invisible visible within national data systems was an important area of discussion at the United Nations World Data Forum. Invisible population groups in data are commonly the most vulnerable populations — women and girls, people with disability, refugee and migrants, and the elderly.…
13 Diciembre 2018
Progress on women’s rights has been far slower than expected across the world as a report shows underage marriage rates have barely come down this decade, while dozens of nations still legally prioritise men.
Forty-one countries recognise only a man to be the head of the household; 27 countries…
13 Diciembre 2018
We cannot restore tropical forests without restoring the rights of their traditional owners.
Implementing a coordinated global response to curb demand for energy and eliminate further deforestation would reduce the need to deploy artificial carbon dioxide removal technologies, according to a…
7 Diciembre 2018
Networks provide an increasingly popular organizational structure for collective action on land rights in Africa and elsewhere around the world, but sustaining networks’ impact, engagement, and resourcing can be challenging.
There is widespread recognition that collective action amongst a…
5 Diciembre 2018
As Resource Equity turns four, we are reflecting on what motivated us to begin, and why we continue: ensuring women’s rights to land and natural resources are at the center of our work.
We founded Resource Equity four years ago in order to center women in our work, and to ensure that women’s…
4 Diciembre 2018
Rural women and girls are far from the public or media spotlight, but their struggles deserve urgent attention
The 62nd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62), held in March 2018, focused on the empowerment of women and girls in rural areas, signifying international commitment to fight some of…
4 Diciembre 2018
After decades of being the elephant in the room of global development, only now are we seeing increased recognition of land rights
Fred Nelson is executive director of Maliasili and Michael Taylor is director of International Land Coalition
Land rights have finally been invited to the party -…