By: Fabiana Frayssinet

Date: October 13th 2016

Source: IPS News

EL PATO, Argentina, Oct 13 2016 (IPS) - Her seven children have grown up, but she now takes care of a young grandson while working in her organic vegetable garden in El Pato, south of the city of Buenos Aires. Olga Campos wants for them what she wasn’t able to achieve: an education to forge a different future.

By: Jean d'Amour Mbonyinshuti

Date: October 12th 2016

Source: AllAfrica.com / The New Times

Rwandan rural women, together with their counterparts from various countries on the continent, will today convene at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in an effort to advocate for unrestricted women's rights to land and other natural resources across the continent.

Date: October 12th 2016

Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Observer

A research report released in Monrovia over the weekend by Natural Resources Women's Platform (NRWP), the Alliance for Rural Democracy (ARD), and Green Advocates International (GAI) with support from US based Rights and Resources Initiatives (RRI), unearthed how foreign direct investment deprives local women of the land rights that form the basis for their livelihoods and cultures despite promises of shared economic development.

By Zabihullah Noori

Date: October 11th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

In conservative Afghanistan, properties usually registered to men but there are plans to issue joint ownership rights to married couples

By: Sarah McColl

Date: October 7th 2016

Source: Take Part

Organizers of the Mt. Kilamanjaro ascent promise to take "the issues of rural women farmers to the top.”

By: Caroline Moser

Date: October 6th 2016

Source:  Next City

On  October 17, the Habitat III conference opens in Quito, Ecuador. Its primary objective is for UN member states to adopt the New Urban Agenda (NUA), reflect on the agreements reached, and elaborate on policy and planning processes for its implementation across the globe.

By: Lois Aduamoah – Addo, WiLDAF Ghana

Date: October 4th 2016

Source: GhanaWeb

Despite the range of legal provisions in Ghana emphasising equality of all persons before the law, there are still significant pieces of evidence to suggest that the rights of vulnerable groups including women are not fully protected when it comes to access and use of land as a productive asset.

By: Annie Gowen

Date: September 29th 2016

Source: The Washington Post

INDIA’S DIVIDE | This is part of a series about oppression and violence against women in India as a rising generation collides with old social mores.

By: Erin Handley

Date: September 28th 2016

Source: Phnom Penh Post

By: Linda Nyondo
Date: September 21st 2016
Source: Zambia Daily Mail

A GROUP of African women including Zambians are next month expected to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to advocate for women’s land rights.

Action Aid communications officer Hellen Mwale confirmed the development in a statement in Lusaka recently.

By: Vicki Gass

Date: September 20th 2016

Source: Oxfam America

Women are banding together in Honduras and around the world to demand #LandRightsNow.

By:Mu Sochua

Date:20 September 2016

Source: Borderless

Monday’ sentencing of four women land rights activists by a Phnom Penh Court does not bode well for the Cambodian government, which is already being closely eyed by the international community for its ongoing politically motivated crackdowns against critics and political opponents.